AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season
🐾 Pet Supplies · 🇦🇺 AU · updated 12 Oct 2026
Standing
#4
Pet Supplies · AU
Shelf-share
6.1%
of AU answers
Sentiment
81%
positive
No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.
The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where Black Hawk ranks best.
Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.
Awareness
#6
5.9%
Research
#7
4.2%
Comparison
#2
9.1%
Validation
#5
7.5%
Purchase
#8
3.8%
Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.
Sentiment
81% positive · no negative mentions
Price framing
framed mid
35% budget, 48% mid, 17% premium
“Black Hawk Original Mature (Chicken & Rice or similar senior recipes):** A fantastic mainstream super-premium Australian option.”
Google AI Mode
“Dry food: Scratch, Petzyo, Black Hawk, Ivory Coat, Meals for Mutts - Much easier and cheaper to feed every day.”
ChatGPT
“Australian-made preference: I'd happily choose Black Hawk where your cat likes it, but I wouldn't sacrifice a reliably eaten, nutritionally appropriate food solely for country of manufacture.”
ChatGPT
“Black Hawk specifically describes its gravy range as supporting urinary health through hydration and says it's designed with fussy eaters in mind.”
ChatGPT
The specific Black Hawk items the engines put in front of AU shoppers.
Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as Black Hawk.
Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as Black Hawk, relative to the rest.
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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with Black Hawk.