How is this data measured?

ContentScout reads social data from 59 public posts sampled this week in the Pets and Animals niche, then calculates average views and median engagement rates for each hashtag.

Which hashtag has the highest average views?

#husky leads the ranking with 6,818,698 average views across 2 posts in the sample, alongside a 13.01% median engagement rate.

Should I use all of these hashtags at once?

No. The data lists individual hashtags and the metrics for posts using them, not a recommendation to combine them all into a single post.

What do the view numbers mean for my posts?

The average views describe the performance of the posts using each specific tag in our sample, and they do not guarantee that your posts will reach those exact numbers.

InstagramPets & AnimalsUpdated November 11, 2026

Instagram Pets and Animals Hashtag Performance

This week, we sampled 59 public posts in the Pets and Animals niche on Instagram. The average views across the sample are 1,298,106, with a median engagement rate of 14.72%. Average views in the previous run were 658,239.

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.

avg. views

1.3M

1,298,106 per post

median engagement

14.7%

14.72% exact

posts analyzed

public, from this week

vs. last week

+97%

in average views