Woof Pupsicle vs Cooper's Treats Pupsicle Mix: Same Name, Two Different Products

TL;DR: "Pupsicle" is the name of two different dog products, and it trips people up constantly. The Woof Pupsicle is a rubber treat-dispensing toy made by Woof (mywoof.com) that you load with a frozen or fresh treat. Cooper's Pupsicle Mix is a freeze-dried powder you mix with water, pour into a mold, and freeze yourself, no toy included. They are not competitors and we are not affiliated with Woof. In fact they pair well: our mix can be frozen in a mold sized to fit inside the Woof toy, so you can use the toy's dispensing mechanic with a treat you made instead of buying pre-made refill pops every time.

We get asked "wait, is your Pupsicle the same as the Woof one?" often enough that it deserves a straight answer. Short version: no, but they are compatible if you want them to be. Here is exactly what each product is, where they differ, and how to fill one with the other.

What the Woof Pupsicle Actually Is

The Pupsicle is a toy made by Woof (Woof Pet Inc.), sold at mywoof.com and through Amazon, Chewy, Petco, PetSmart, and Walmart. It is a rubber treat-dispensing toy that unscrews in the middle. You load a treat inside, screw it back together, and your dog licks or chews it through a center access hole to work the treat out. It is made of non-toxic, BPA- and phthalate-free natural rubber, is dishwasher safe, and has a weighted base so it stays upright while a dog is working on it. There is also a tougher black rubber "Power Chewer" version in the same three sizes, which Woof itself describes as not a chew toy and recommends supervising and putting away between uses.

The toy comes in three sizes:

The toy itself runs $19.99 to $25.00, and that price appears to hold across all three sizes. Woof also sells its own pre-made refill, the "Pupsicle Pop," a shelf-stable filling that needs no freezing, packaged 10 per bag (Small), 7 per bag (Large), or 5 per bag (X-Large), at roughly $17.95 on Woof's autoship pricing. A representative ingredient list for one flavor reads: peanut butter (roasted peanuts), chicken (or beef) plasma, beef tallow, tapioca starch, vegetable glycerin, brewers dried yeast, date syrup, soy lecithin, beef gelatin, and blueberry powder. Calories per pop run from about 80 (Small) up to 320 (X-Large), depending on size and flavor.

What Cooper's Pupsicle Mix Actually Is

Cooper's Pupsicle Mix is not a toy and does not come with one. It is a shelf-stable, freeze-dried powder. You mix it with water, pour the paste into a mold or ice cube tray, and freeze it for a couple of hours. That is the entire product: a mix, not a device.

A 4.3oz jar runs $12.49 and makes about 25 treats. A 14oz bag runs $29.99 and makes about 80 treats, at roughly 20 calories per treat (less if you thin it with extra water). Flavors include Chicken & Sweet Potato, Beef & Cheddar, Turkey & Cinnamon, and Lamb & Spinach, and the ingredients are exactly what is printed on the label, freeze-dried meat, a flour, and simple binders depending on flavor, with no added sugar, salt, preservatives, color, or artificial flavors. Everything is sourced and made in the USA, the labeling is AAFCO-compliant, and it ships with a money-back guarantee. If you want the mold and the mix together, the Pupsicle Starter Kit bundles two jars with a paw-and-bone mold for about 50 treats.

The Honest Differences

The core difference is simple: one is a toy, one is a food. Here is the side-by-side.

The Woof toy's value is the dispensing mechanic itself. The center hole makes a dog work for the treat, which is genuinely good for enrichment, slow feeding, and keeping an anxious or bored dog occupied. That mechanic is worth something on its own, independent of what you fill it with.

Cooper's Pupsicle Mix has no mechanic. It is an ingredient-focused product: you get to see and choose exactly what goes into the treat, and you control the batch size and cost per treat. It does not do anything for you the way a toy does, you provide the mold and the freezer time yourself.

Worth mentioning honestly, since it is the most repeated complaint about Woof's refill pops: cost. Reviewers commonly flag the pre-made pops as expensive to keep buying, with at least one reviewer saying they could not justify the ongoing cost and switched to filling their own molds instead. That is a real, verified pattern in the reviews, not something we are making up to sell mix. It is also exactly the gap a DIY mix fills.

Where They Overlap

Both products exist to give a dog a cold, slow-to-finish treat. Woof clearly anticipates that some owners want to fill their own toy rather than buy pre-made pops: they sell their own $12 silicone Treat Tray, sized to match each toy size, meant for freezing things like peanut butter, bone broth, or yogurt at home. Community practice goes further than that. Plenty of owners skip any branded mold entirely and just use a standard ice cube tray or popsicle mold, since the fill-and-freeze method is identical no matter whose silicone it is.

That is the overlap: neither company has any exclusivity on what goes inside the toy. The toy dispenses whatever frozen (or fresh) shape you put in it.

Can You Use Cooper's Pupsicle Mix in a Woof Pupsicle Toy?

Yes, functionally. Mix our powder with water, pour it into a mold, freeze it, and once it is solid you can load it into the Woof toy the same way you would load any homemade fill: unscrew the toy's center, drop the frozen piece in, and screw it back together.

The one honest gap here is sizing. Woof publishes exact dimensions for the toy itself (above), but it does not publish an exact diameter or height for its own refill pops, and the pop loads through the toy's full unscrewed body, not through the smaller center access hole. So instead of promising a precise fit, the practical approach is: pick a mold or ice cube tray cavity that is clearly smaller than your toy's body diameter (2.9 in for Small, 3.6 in for Large, 4.8 in for X-Large), freeze one test piece, and check that it drops in and screws closed cleanly before committing a full batch. Our paw and bone molds and star molds both have small, bite-sized cavities that work for this, or a standard ice cube tray does the job just as well.

One real tradeoff to know going in: Woof's official pops are shelf-stable and ready to use straight out of the bag. A Cooper's Mix fill needs the full freeze time, about 2 to 3 hours, before it is ready. You are trading a few hours of freezer time for a shorter ingredient list and a lower cost per treat.

Buy the Woof Pupsicle Toy If...

• You want the enrichment mechanic itself, a toy that makes a dog work slowly for a treat, not just a treat on its own.
• You want a zero-prep option and are fine buying pre-made refills as you go.
• You are using it for crate time, car rides, or anxious moments where a self-contained toy is easier to hand over.

Buy Cooper's Pupsicle Mix If...

• You already own a Woof toy (or any similar treat toy) and want a cheaper, more transparent fill than pre-made pops.
• You want a frozen treat that works with any mold you already have, no toy required at all.
• Ingredient control, calorie control, or cost per treat matters more to you than convenience.

Same name, two different products, and no reason you cannot use both. Start with the Chicken and Sweet Potato flavor if your dog is new to the mix, and see our Starter Kit walkthrough for the full first-batch steps.

As with any new food, introduce a new flavor gradually and watch for loose stool or itching the first time. Treats, frozen or otherwise, should stay to roughly 10 percent of your dog's daily calories, and dogs with allergies or a sensitive stomach should start with a single simple flavor before rotating in others.