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r/dogsusingpillows

Another cute dog subreddit, specifically for dogs using pillows! Preferably actual pillows, but open to dogs using other animals, humans, or objects as pillows. Open to all animals but generally meant for dogs :) Founded 2019 · 95.8K members

97K members. The best post we have captured here reached 26K upvotes, which works out to 268 per 1,000 members.

268peak upvotes per 1,000 members
97Kmembers
26Kbest post
108most comments
405posts 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.

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Image 67% Gallery 30% Video 2% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Doggo Using Pillow 136 Multiple Pillows 27 Human Pillow 16 Doggo As Pillow 13 Pibble on a Pillow 13 Tucked In Puppy 9 Pillow As Bed 9 Unorthodox Pillow Use 9 Makeshift Pillow 7 Stuffie as pillow 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Turned over in bed expecting to see my wife. Got Chuck instead.

↑ 26K 💬 95 image 2025

came home after work to find this

↑ 22.8K 💬 87 image 2025

Got a body pillow for my back pain. My dog owns it now.

↑ 15.1K 💬 97 image 2025

Every morning after I get up, she goes to my spot and uses my pillows 😆

↑ 12.4K 💬 108 image 2026

I found him lying on my bf’s pillow - I couldn’t help but just tuck him in for the night🥹

↑ 8.9K 💬 49 gallery 2025

I think my dog can hear the baby in my belly. He's extra snuggly and using my stomach as a pillow!

↑ 8.9K 💬 79 gallery 2026

How she sleeps knowing her crap is covering our icy yard

↑ 7.3K 💬 39 image 2026

In a meeting I look over and see this ❤️

↑ 7.3K 💬 48 image 2026

You’d never guess he spent his first 8 months living outside

↑ 7.1K 💬 53 gallery 2025

my dog (stink) using the dog we’re dogsitting as a pillow 🥲

↑ 7.1K 💬 61 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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r/dogsusingpillows, in numbers

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What is r/dogsusingpillows?
r/dogsusingpillows describes itself this way: Another cute dog subreddit, specifically for dogs using pillows! Preferably actual pillows, but open to dogs using other animals, humans, or objects as pillows. Open to all animals but generally meant for dogs :). It was founded in 2019 and has 95.8K members.
How many members does r/dogsusingpillows have?
r/dogsusingpillows has about 97K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 26K upvotes, which is 268 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/dogsusingpillows?
"Turned over in bed expecting to see my wife. Got Chuck instead." reached 26K upvotes and 95 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/dogsusingpillows.
What subreddits are similar to r/dogsusingpillows?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/dogsusingpillows?
Of the posts we hold, 67% are image posts and 30% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/dogsusingpillows?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 19:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/dogsusingpillows?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/dogsusingpillows has 4.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 12 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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