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.
93%
Video 93%Image 3%Link 2%Gallery 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.
Dog wants moar! 10minor pets included 2Dog begging 2no pets included (NSFD) 1minor boops included 1other 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/PetTheDamnDog?
r/PetTheDamnDog ("Just pet the damn dog") describes itself this way: Subreddit for those times where the dog is ignored. Just pet them already. It was founded in 2018 and has 379.2K members.
How many members does r/PetTheDamnDog have?
r/PetTheDamnDog has about 379.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.8K upvotes, which is 31 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PetTheDamnDog?
"Just do it!" reached 11.8K upvotes and 46 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PetTheDamnDog.
What subreddits are similar to r/PetTheDamnDog?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/PetTheDamnDog?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are video posts and 3% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PetTheDamnDog?
Across 296 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 01:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/PetTheDamnDog?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PetTheDamnDog has 3.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 16 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/PetTheDamnDog, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.