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r/Petloss↗

For those friends who await us at the Rainbow Bridge

r/petloss is a community of support for Pet owners whose Pets have passed away. This is not a place to post lost Pet stories or any other news about Pets. Posts and comments made by Redditors with unvalidated email require mod approval before they appear here. Please consider verifying your email address.

100k subscribers1,664 posts / mo in Sep 20261,452 authors / mosince 2010

r/Petloss has 100k members (+34% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,664 posts a month from 1,452 people. Top topics: Cat Loss, Pet Grief Support and Dog Loss and Euthanasia.

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Size and growth

How r/Petloss has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+34%in 12 months · +6.1% in 3 months · +1.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026100k
Growing100k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/Petloss

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+13%vs Sep 2025 · +0.8% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.7k
BusierPeaked at 2k in May 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Petloss

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Cat Loss16%
  2. Pet Grief Support13%
  3. Dog Loss and Euthanasia5.2%
  4. Dog Loss Memories4.7%
  5. Guilt and Replacing Pets2.9%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Lap of Love
  2. etsy
  3. Gofund
  4. Spotify
  5. PostImages

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research