AI pet trends for your cat or dog

Which pet trend suits your pet

Both started as AI-made clips of cats standing on their hind legs and performing like people, posted on 1 and 2 Oct 2026. Smalltown Boy Cats is the dancing one; I Wanna Love You is the singing one. Pick by how many pets you have.

1. Smalltown Boy Cats↗ Rising ≈46M views · 2 pets · 21s For two pets. Each gets a turn up front, paws on its head, screaming into the lens while the other dances at the fence, then they finish side by side. Two cats is the classic; a cat and a dog works too. See yourself in it
2. I Wanna Love You↗ Rising ≈55M views · 1 pet · 10s For one pet. Yours takes the white cat's place in a mustard corduroy suit, holds the phone out for a night selfie by the tennis courts and belts out the note with one paw in the air. Cats lead the versions we compared; dogs come next. See yourself in it
3. La Calabaza🔥 Hot ≈140M views · 3 pets · 14s Three kittens, one in a black cowboy hat and one in round glasses, stand up on a night roadside and dance in perfect sync to La Calabaza. Your three pets, same road, same moves. See yourself in it
4. Single Ladies Dog ≈64M views · 1 pet · 15s A long-haired dachshund takes the middle spot in a Single Ladies dance routine, head tosses and all, while two dancers whip their hair behind it. Your pet, same stage, same moves. See yourself in it
5. Pet Halloween Portrait 1 pet · 3 photos Your dog or cat sits for a proper Halloween studio portrait, lit by a glowing jack-o'-lantern among pumpkins and dry autumn leaves. See yourself in it

Trends to do with your cat, dog or other pet

Every video is 100 credits, one pet or two, in 1080p HD. Packs are 100 credits for $9.90 or 300 for $24.90, with no subscription needed.

Your pet in the real viral clip

With people, only the face and hair change: the performer's body, clothes and moves stay. With pets, the whole animal goes in. Your pet's face, coat colour and markings replace the original cat, and the clip keeps everything else: the upright stance, the moves, the set, the camera and the clip's own sound. In I Wanna Love You that includes the suit.

That's different from an AI pet video generator, which animates any photo with stock moves or a prompt. A generator can make a cat dance; this puts your cat in the exact clip people are remaking, on the same beats, so it reads as the trend at a glance. The trade-off is that you can't choose the song, the outfit or the setting.

Singing cat AI videos

Most singing cat AI tools are lip-sync apps: they make a cat photo mouth whatever audio you upload. This works the other way round: the song comes with a clip that already went viral, and your pet is made to sing or scream along to it.

I Wanna Love You is the singing one. The original white cat was posted on TikTok by @novoreel on 1 Oct 2026, captioned with a joke about haters calling it autotune, and had 21.8M plays when we read it on 15 Oct 2026. It sings the opening of Akon's 2006 hit with Snoop Dogg, a smooth nightclub come-on, into a phone held at arm's length. Your pet's mouth is made to move with the clip's own sound. More on the song.

Smalltown Boy Cats is a scream more than a song. Each cat clutches its head and screams into the lens over Bronski Beat's 1984 falsetto, a song about a young gay man leaving the small town that rejected him. Two cats losing it at a red fence to that is the joke. More on the song.

Either way, your video comes with the sound already on it, ready to post. For the songs behind every AI trend we track, see AI trend songs.

How to put your pet in a trend

You need a photo of your pet, not a video. One pet takes one photo; two pets take two.

1. Pick the trend for your pets

   One pet: I Wanna Love You. Two pets: Smalltown Boy Cats.

2. Add one clear photo per pet

   Face toward the camera, coat and markings in shot, one animal per photo. You can add two more angles of the same pet. In Smalltown Boy Cats, photo 1 screams first and photo 2 starts at the fence.

3. See your free preview

   Tap See yourself in it for a free still of your pet in the scene, in under a minute. If a marking is wrong, type the fix under the preview ("white socks on the front paws") and it's made again from your photos. With two pets you choose which one the words are for.

4. Make the video

   Press Make my video. It takes about 5–10 minutes and we email you when it's ready. It's 100 credits whether you have one pet or two, and you pay only when it's ready, with an automatic refund if it fails.

5. Post it

   Save it and post it on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube Shorts. The clip's own sound is already on it.

Pet photos that work, and ones that don't

Your pet's look comes only from the photo, so it's worth picking well. For photos of people, see the best photo for an AI face swap.

• Face toward the camera. Both clips are close on the face: I Wanna Love You is a selfie from arm's length, and in Smalltown Boy Cats each pet screams straight into the lens. A side-on photo gives less to work from.
• Coat and markings in shot. Colour and markings are what make your pet look like your pet. A close photo works well, as long as it shows the coat around the face and chest.
• One animal per photo. Skip photos with two animals, or with a person holding the pet. Crop a shared photo down to one pet.
• Sharp and well lit, no heavy filters. Our photo check flags photos that are blurry, dark, overexposed or under 512 pixels on the short side. It's advice, not a block: a weaker photo still goes through, but a sharp one gets closer.
• Look-alike pets. Two pets with similar coats can blend into one in Smalltown Boy Cats. Choose photos that show the difference: a white chest, a darker face, different ears.
• Some moments hide the face. In Smalltown Boy Cats the front cat's paw covers the lens around 4.5 seconds. In I Wanna Love You the first second is dark night sky, and the raised paw can leave the top of the frame between about 5 and 7 seconds. That's the original clip, not a fault in yours.

Two pets, or your cat and a friend's

Smalltown Boy Cats has two fixed roles. Photo 1 is the first screamer, up front with its paws on its head. Photo 2 starts as the dancer at the fence, then comes forward for its own scream after the cut about 7 seconds in. From about 14 seconds they dance side by side, and in the last second and a half they rush the camera. Put the pet you want opening the video first.

The pets don't have to live together, or ever meet. Your cat and a friend's cat, each from its own photo, end up at the same fence: a long-distance version you can send to them. Ask your friend before you use their pet's photo.

Most remakes we checked used the poster's own two cats, and template sites also offer a cat with a dog. Any two pets work; the clip keeps both up on their hind legs. Two pets cost the same 100 credits as one.

Other AI pet trends (not on Jump on the Trend)

AI pet trends people search for that you can't make here yet, and where they started. A name with an arrow opens our page on it; where it's one clip we could add, you can ask for it.

• Whiny Dog (the whining Doberman) →Since 23 Sep 2026

  A real Doberman on a cream leather sofa whines into the phone for 8 seconds and finishes on a toothy grin. It spread as a reaction clip for small complaints. The AI side is tiny so far: the "Whiny Puppy AI" posts we found are mostly template tutorials, and on TikTok we found one AI-made whining dog. It's one clip with a dog and no people, the kind we could add with your dog on the sofa.

  TikTok, @samgam81, 23 Sep 2026 ↗ · 33.1M plays (read 16 Oct 2026)
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• Ramalama costume walk (AI kittens) →Since 11 Oct 2026

  Kittens in Halloween costumes walk upright toward a low camera in a parking garage to Róisín Murphy's "Ramalama (Bang Bang)". The 11 Oct original had 17.5M plays on 16 Oct, but its kittens are dressed as video game characters, which we never make. The same account's 15 Oct Little Red Riding Hood and wolf walk is the one we could add: two pets, no people, about 12 seconds, with your pets in the costumes.

  TikTok, @meowtakeover, 15 Oct 2026 ↗ · 2.1M plays (read 16 Oct 2026)
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• Thriller dance with AI pets →2 Aug to 9 Oct 2026

  Cats and dogs in costume doing the zombie dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller", stood on their hind legs by AI. Each post is its own render, with its own pets, costumes and street, and nobody is remaking one clip with their own pet, so there's no clip to put yours into.

  TikTok, @moonwalkcats, 2 Aug 2026 ↗ · 606.5K plays (read 16 Oct 2026)
• If You Grab Me Imma Bite You (AI dog videos)Since May 2026

  AI clips of dogs acting out a line from a 13 Jan 2026 TikTok live by the rapper Finesse2Tymes. In the posts Know Your Meme lists, a dog guards its spot on the couch or sits in the back seat of a car. The earliest dog version it lists was posted on 17 May 2026 and had 21.1M plays when we read it on 15 Oct 2026. The versions it lists use different dogs in different settings, so there's no single clip to remake: it's a sound you add in TikTok, not a trend we can add here.

  Know Your Meme ↗
• AI Cat Stories (the sad meow song)Since Apr 2024

  Slideshows and short stories about orange tabby cats, often called Chubby, set to an AI-meowed version of Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For". Know Your Meme traces the meowed song to an @MPMinds video of 13 Apr 2024. It's a storytelling format rather than one clip, so there's nothing to put your pet in.

  Know Your Meme ↗