Which dog food & care brands do AI assistants recommend in Canada? Q4 2026
In Canada, AI assistants most often recommend Nutramax, Greenies and Purina One for dog. Nutramax is named by 5 of 5 assistants.
What the data says
Nutramax (Nutramax Laboratories) is the dog food & care brand AI assistants recommend most in Canada, taking 11% of all recommendation points across 5 assistants. Greenies follows with 10% and Purina One is third with 9%.
The top spot is close: only 1 points separate Nutramax and Greenies, so a small change in how either brand is described online could flip the order.
put Nutramax first, while ChatGPT favours Purina One, Claude favours Purina One, DeepSeek favours Purina One, Gemini favours Acana and Grok favours Purina.
The top five brands hold 47% of recommendations out of 25 brands named in total, leaving room for challengers to break into AI shortlists.
| # | Brand | Owner | AI share | ChatGPT | Claude | DeepSeek | Gemini | Grok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nutramax | Nutramax Laboratories | 11% | 35 | 35 | 25 | 35 | 35 |
| 2 | Greenies | Mars | 10% | 35 | 35 | 25 | 35 | 20 |
| 3 | Purina One | Nestlé | 9% | 35 | 35 | 45 | 20 | – |
| 4 | Milk-Bone | J.M. Smucker | 9% | 25 | 25 | 35 | 25 | 25 |
| 5 | Zesty Paws | H&H Group | 8.1% | 25 | 25 | 35 | 12 | 25 |
| 6 | Royal Canin | Mars | 7.9% | 25 | 25 | 35 | 8 | 25 |
| 7 | Acana | Champion Petfoods | 7.1% | 24 | 24 | 12 | 35 | 12 |
| 8 | Blue Heaven | Independent | 5.6% | 20 | 20 | 12 | 20 | 12 |
| 9 | Hill’s | Colgate-Palmolive | 5.3% | 20 | 20 | 20 | – | 20 |
| 10 | Purina | Nestlé | 4.7% | – | – | – | – | 70 |
| 11 | VetriScience | FoodScience LLC | 4% | 20 | 20 | – | – | 20 |
| 12 | Orijen | Champion Petfoods | 3.8% | 8 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 8 |
| 13 | Crumps' Naturals | Crumps’ Naturals | 2.4% | 8 | 8 | – | 20 | – |
| 14 | PetHonesty | PetHonesty | 2.4% | 12 | 12 | – | – | 12 |
| 15 | Cosequin | Nutramax Laboratories | 1.7% | – | – | – | 25 | – |
| 16 | Vet’s Best | Spectrum Brands | 1.3% | – | – | 20 | – | – |
| 17 | Tri-Acta | Integricare | 1.3% | – | – | – | 20 | – |
| 18 | Thrive | Petproject | 1.1% | 8 | 8 | – | – | – |
| 19 | NaturVet | Garmon Corp | 0.8% | – | – | 12 | – | – |
| 20 | Benny Bullys | Benny Bullys | 0.8% | – | – | – | 12 | – |
Questions about AI dog food & care recommendations
- Which dog food & care brand does ChatGPT recommend most in Canada?
- ChatGPT recommends Purina One most often for dog food & care in Canada. Across all assistants, Nutramax leads with 11% of recommendations.
- Which dog food & care brand is improving fastest in Canada?
- Purina has the strongest momentum among challengers: AI names it first in 2 of 2 answers where it appears, while holding 4.7% share. This is the first Q4 2026 reading; change over time will be shown from the next update.
- How is the ranking calculated?
- We ask each AI assistant the questions shoppers ask in each category and market, record the top five brands it names, and give 35, 25, 20, 12 and 8 points for positions one to five. Share is a brand's points divided by all points awarded.
Dog: AI rankings by country
Covers: Dog Food, Dog Health, Dog Treats.
Method: each AI assistant is asked the shopper questions for every segment in the category and market; the top five brands named score 35, 25, 20, 12 and 8 points. Share is a brand's points divided by all points awarded. Rankings reflect AI answers, not sales.
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