How we picked this shortlist.
Eligibility: US pet creators on Instagram whose audience reads as meaningfully US-based. We kept owner-run, creator-led pet accounts (a named animal plus a human behind it) and removed accounts that are not pet creators. The topic auto-classifier dropped one non-creator account from the candidate pool before ranking.
Data source: the live ClickAnalytic creator database, which tracks 24,020 US pet creators on Instagram.
Ranking signals: follower reach, engagement rate, and audience quality (the share of followers that read as real).
Filters: active accounts posting within the last 30 days, with a real-audience floor and engagement floor applied before ranking.
Scope: the 25 creators shown are a hand-checked preview. Every metric on this page describes that shortlist unless it is explicitly labelled as the full tracked slice or a Creator Economy Report benchmark.
Context benchmarks come from ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026, a study of 23.6M creators (data: December 2025). Updated monthly.
The figures above are a snapshot pulled on June 16, 2026, not a live feed.