Top Instagram Hashtags for Pets and Animals
This week, 70 public posts in the Pets and Animals niche on Instagram have an average of 1,636,853 views and a median engagement rate of 14.45%. Average views increased from 1,441,452 in the previous run. Review the ranked hashtag list below to see which tags appear on top-performing posts.
ContentScout's own analysis: we sample real public posts matching pets & animals search terms on Instagram and score them by how much engagement they're getting relative to how recently they were posted. Hashtags are ranked by the average views of the posts using them, not by how often they appear. The numbers describe those posts, they don't promise results.
#catvideo
2 posts in sample
- 16M
- Avg. views
- 28.3%
- Engagement
#caturday
2 posts in sample
- 14M
- Avg. views
- 25.6%
- Engagement
#catlife
2 posts in sample
- 14M
- Avg. views
- 26.8%
- Engagement
#relatable
2 posts in sample
- 14M
- Avg. views
- 14.7%
- Engagement
#catmom
3 posts in sample
- 11M
- Avg. views
- 27.2%
- Engagement
#catlover
3 posts in sample
- 9.4M
- Avg. views
- 15.1%
- Engagement
#catstagram
4 posts in sample
- 6.9M
- Avg. views
- 21.5%
- Engagement
#kitten
4 posts in sample
- 6.9M
- Avg. views
- 17.1%
- Engagement
#goldenretriever
6 posts in sample
- 4.7M
- Avg. views
- 14.0%
- Engagement
#cat
7 posts in sample
- 4.1M
- Avg. views
- 15.1%
- Engagement
#cute
7 posts in sample
- 3.9M
- Avg. views
- 18.2%
- Engagement
#dogsofig
4 posts in sample
- 3.9M
- Avg. views
- 15.4%
- Engagement
#dogsofinstagram
14 posts in sample
- 3.4M
- Avg. views
- 13.7%
- Engagement
#dogsofinsta
5 posts in sample
- 3.1M
- Avg. views
- 14.4%
- Engagement
#petstagram
11 posts in sample
- 2.6M
- Avg. views
- 13.5%
- Engagement
#pets
11 posts in sample
- 2.6M
- Avg. views
- 13.5%
- Engagement
#cats
13 posts in sample
- 2.6M
- Avg. views
- 15.1%
- Engagement
#catsofinstagram
12 posts in sample
- 2.5M
- Avg. views
- 15.6%
- Engagement
#doglover
3 posts in sample
- 1.1M
- Avg. views
- 9.3%
- Engagement
#puppy
13 posts in sample
- 1.1M
- Avg. views
- 13.5%
- Engagement
#dog
13 posts in sample
- 998K
- Avg. views
- 13.5%
- Engagement
#germanshepherd
2 posts in sample
- 946K
- Avg. views
- 17.0%
- Engagement
#animal
2 posts in sample
- 623K
- Avg. views
- 12.1%
- Engagement
#animalvoiceover
2 posts in sample
- 318K
- Avg. views
- 10.3%
- Engagement
#catlovers
3 posts in sample
- 308K
- Avg. views
- 15.1%
- Engagement
Questions, answered.
How is this data measured?+
ContentScout reads public social data from 70 sampled posts in the Pets and Animals niche this week, calculates average views and median engagement rates, and ranks the hashtags using the platform's own scoring system.
Should I use all of these hashtags at once?+
No. The data shows individual performance per hashtag across different posts, and you should select specific tags that match your content rather than combining every tag in the list.
Do these view counts guarantee results?+
No. A hashtag's average views describe the posts using it in the sample, but they are not a guarantee of reach for your own posts.
Which hashtag has the highest average views in this sample?+
#catvideo has the highest average views in this sample with 15,980,664 views across 2 posts and a 28.32% median engagement rate.
Which hashtag appears on the most posts in the sample?+
#dogsofinstagram appears on 14 posts in the sample, with an average of 3,443,920 views and a 13.65% median engagement rate.
More on Pets & Animals on Instagram
Pets & Animals on other platforms
Hashtags that work in other Instagram niches