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/r/DogAdvice: Keep That Tail Wagging!. A subreddit for requesting advice on Dog behavior and husbandry. Any veterinary advice given is being given by individuals of unknown education and should be considered suspect. Founded 2015 · 527.2K members

527.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 63.3K upvotes, which works out to 120 per 1,000 members.

120peak upvotes per 1,000 members
527.9Kmembers
63.3Kbest post
4.7Kmost comments
412posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

25% 24% 20% 16% 9%
Text 25% Image 24% Gallery 20% Video 16% Question 9% Link 7%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 223 Advice 149 Discussion 18 General 13 Answered 9

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Help- Found this little guy abandoned in the desert eating nasty dried up roadkill. He stinks and I love him.

↑ 63.3K 💬 2.2K image 2023

UPDATE!!!! carabiner on my dogs leg.

↑ 56K 💬 19 image 2025

PSA: check your dog's mouth for ticks this summer...

↑ 40.3K 💬 564 image 2023

atomic nuclear farts - help 🥲

↑ 38.4K 💬 2.7K gallery 2025

This dog is being neglected but I’m not the owner what should I do?

↑ 32.3K 💬 706 gallery 2025

Update on 6 month puppy: I left my girlfriend

↑ 30.3K 💬 1.5K image 2024

Rescue won’t leave crate, eat or drink water :(

↑ 28.5K 💬 1.2K image 2024

Why he stare at me like this? He seems nervous.

↑ 27.1K 💬 2.1K video 2025

just picked my dog up from the groomer and i am losing my mind

↑ 26.7K 💬 318 gallery 2025

Advice requested - found dog, eats and drinks, but when he’s not sleeping he’s walking in circles

↑ 26.6K 💬 2.3K video 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/DogAdvice, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/DogAdvice?
r/DogAdvice ("/r/DogAdvice: Keep That Tail Wagging!") describes itself this way: A subreddit for requesting advice on Dog behavior and husbandry. Any veterinary advice given is being given by individuals of unknown education and should be considered suspect. It was founded in 2015 and has 527.2K members.
How many members does r/DogAdvice have?
r/DogAdvice has about 527.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 412 of its posts; the biggest reached 63.3K upvotes, which is 120 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/DogAdvice?
"Help- Found this little guy abandoned in the desert eating nasty dried up roadkill. He stinks and I love him." reached 63.3K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/DogAdvice.
What subreddits are similar to r/DogAdvice?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/DogAdvice?
Of the posts we hold, 25% are text posts and 24% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/DogAdvice?
Across 412 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 19:00 UTC (29.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 03:00 UTC (16.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (13.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/DogAdvice?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/DogAdvice has 17.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 162 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/DogAdvice, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.