DIY Woof Pupsicle Refills: How to Make Your Own (and Cut the Refill Cost)

TL;DR: Refill cost is the most common complaint about the Woof Pupsicle's pre-made pops, and it is a fair one. Woof sells refill bags of 5 to 10 pops for around $17.95, which works out to somewhere between $1.80 and $3.59 per pop depending on size. A jar of Cooper's Pupsicle Mix costs $12.49 and makes about 25 treats, roughly $0.50 each, and the 14oz bag brings that down to about $0.375 a treat. Making your own refill is genuinely simple: mix, mold, freeze, load. Here is the full how-to plus the honest tradeoffs.

We are not affiliated with Woof and this is not a knock on their toy, the dispensing mechanic is a good one. But buying commercial refills forever gets expensive fast, and it is one of the most repeated complaints in the toy's own reviews. If you already own a Woof Pupsicle (or a similar treat-dispensing toy), you do not need to keep buying pre-made pops to use it.

The Refill Cost Problem

Woof's official Pupsicle Pops are shelf-stable and ready to use, no freezing required, which is genuinely convenient. But convenience has a price. The pops are sold in bags of 10 (Small), 7 (Large), or 5 (X-Large), and the autoship subscription price on mywoof.com runs around $17.95 per bag. Woof does not clearly break out a separate one-time price per size, so treating $17.95 as roughly representative across sizes, that works out to about:

• Small: ~$1.80 per pop
• Large: ~$2.56 per pop
• X-Large: ~$3.59 per pop

Those are estimates, since Woof does not publish a clean per-size breakdown, but they are in the right neighborhood. And it shows up in the toy's own reviews: refill cost is the single most repeated complaint, with reviewers calling the pops "way too expensive," and at least one reviewer specifically saying they could not justify the ongoing cost (they estimated roughly $40 a week) and switched to filling their own molds instead.

Compare that to a jar of Cooper's Pupsicle Mix: $12.49 for about 25 treats, roughly $0.50 each. The 14oz bag at $29.99 makes about 80 treats, bringing it down to about $0.375 a treat. Even on the high end, that is a fraction of what a pre-made pop costs, and you are freezing your own batch instead of reordering every couple of weeks.

What You Need

• A jar or bag of Cooper's Pupsicle Mix in any flavor, or the Pupsicle Starter Kit if you are starting from scratch and want a mold included
• Water
• A silicone mold or ice cube tray sized smaller than your toy's opening
• Your treat-dispensing toy, if you are loading it into one (this works just as well as a standalone frozen treat with no toy at all)

If you already have a Woof Pupsicle, keep its dimensions in mind when picking a mold: the toy body runs 2.9 in diameter for Small, 3.6 in for Large, and 4.8 in for X-Large. Woof does not publish an exact spec for its own pop size, so there is no single "correct" mold. The safe approach is to pick a cavity clearly smaller than your toy's body, since the frozen piece loads through the toy's full unscrewed middle, not the narrower center hole.

How to Make Your Own Refills

1. Scoop the mix. Measure the Pupsicle Mix into a bowl per the jar's instructions.
2. Add water and stir. Stir until you have a thick, smooth paste. A splash more water if it is too stiff to pour.
3. Fill your mold. Spoon or pour the paste into the mold, filling each cavity about 90 percent full, and tap the mold on the counter to knock out air bubbles.
4. Freeze. About 2 to 3 hours, until fully solid.
5. Test the fit. Before freezing a full batch, pop one out and check that it drops cleanly into your toy and lets it screw shut. Adjust mold size if it is too snug.
6. Load and serve. Unscrew the toy, drop the frozen piece in, screw it back together, and hand it over. Or skip the toy entirely and just serve the frozen treat on its own.

Active hands-on time is about a minute. The freezer does the rest.

Mold Options

Our paw and bone silicone molds and star molds both have small, bite-sized cavities that work well for a toy fill. A plain ice cube tray works too, and it is the most common workaround owners already reach for: the fill-and-freeze method does not require any toy-branded mold, generic silicone does the same job. Pick whichever cavity size is easiest to test against your specific toy.

Cost Comparison

Storage and Batch-Freezing

The real advantage of making your own is that you can freeze a large batch in one sitting and stop thinking about refills for weeks. A few habits make that work well:

• Batch it. Mix a full jar at once rather than a single portion, fill every cavity you have, and freeze it all in one go.
• Store popped-out pieces in a labeled freezer bag for up to about 2 months, so they do not pick up freezer odors from anything else in there.
• Do not refreeze a thawed piece. If one melts and your dog does not finish it, toss it rather than putting it back in the freezer.
• Label the bag with the flavor and date if you are running more than one flavor at a time, since frozen pieces from different mixes can look similar once they are out of the mold.

Done this way, one mixing session covers a couple of weeks of refills, which is the same "grab and go" convenience as buying a bag of pre-made pops, just cheaper and freezer-based instead of pantry-based.

Common Questions

Does using a homemade fill affect the toy's warranty?

We cannot speak for Woof's warranty terms, that is a question for Woof directly. What we can say is that owners routinely fill Woof's own toys with homemade mixes, peanut butter, bone broth, and yogurt, all of which Woof itself suggests in its own DIY recipe content for its Treat Tray mold. A frozen mix-and-water fill is the same category of use.

Can I use any Cooper's Pupsicle Mix flavor for this?

Yes. Chicken & Sweet Potato, Beef & Cheddar, Turkey & Cinnamon, and Lamb & Spinach all mix and freeze the same way, so pick based on what your dog likes or tolerates rather than which one is "meant" for a toy fill. Lamb & Spinach is our pick for dogs that do better on a novel protein.

What if my mold is a little too big or too small for the toy?

Test one piece before committing a full batch. If it does not drop in cleanly, size down to a smaller cavity, or size up if it rattles around loosely. Since Woof does not publish an exact spec for its own pop dimensions, a bit of trial and error on the first batch is normal, not a sign you are doing it wrong.

The Honest Tradeoff

Pre-made pops win on convenience, no argument there. They are shelf-stable, ready in seconds, and there is no freezer wait. If you need a treat right now, that matters.

Making your own trades a few hours of freezer time (not hands-on time, just waiting) for a shorter ingredient list and a lower cost per treat. Cooper's Pupsicle Mix ingredients are exactly what is printed on the jar, freeze-dried meat plus a flour and simple binders depending on flavor, with no added sugar, salt, preservatives, color, or artificial flavors, made and sourced in the USA. If you go through refills often enough that the cost adds up, or you would rather see a short ingredient list than a longer one, DIY is the better fit. For the full rundown on how the two products differ beyond just refills, see our Woof Pupsicle vs Cooper's Pupsicle Mix comparison.

As with any new food, introduce a new flavor gradually and watch how your dog does with it the first time. Frozen treats, homemade or store-bought, should stay to roughly 10 percent of a dog's daily calories, and dogs with known allergies or a sensitive stomach should start with a single simple flavor before rotating in others.