14 Funny Pet Video Templates You Can Make with AI

These 14 selected VerseIn templates turn a single photo into a funny pet video: seven star your own pet from its photo, and seven cast you as the owner while the template brings in the cat, dog, parrot or raccoon. They're grouped by what happens on screen, from a Halloween pumpkin costume to a 3 a.m. choir of hounds, and every entry says whose photo to upload and links straight to the template.

Key Takeaways

• Each video starts from one photo, but check whose photo it is: templates 1-7 want a picture of your pet, while 8-14 want a picture of you.
• In the "you" templates, the animal comes with the template, so you don't upload a photo of your pet for those.
• Trick or Treat is the Halloween option for your pet, and it has a full step-by-step guide.
• Read each upload hint: Golden Pitch Crasher asks for a full-body dog photo, and Huge Cutie asks for a cat or dog.

Dress your pet up

Crowns, capes, costumes and a courtroom robe: these four give your pet a new look or a new role. Upload a photo of your pet for each.

1. Trick or Treat

When you open the front door in Trick or Treat, your pet is waiting on the mat in a pumpkin costume, begging for candy. It sits in VerseIn's Festival category rather than Pets, and it's the only Halloween template on this list.

• What to upload: a clear photo of your pet, with face and fur clearly visible
• Template: Trick or Treat
• Guide: How to turn your pet into a trick-or-treater with AI

2. Royalty Pet Photo

Royalty Pet Photo turns your pet into a framed royal portrait. In the example, a tabby kitten wears a jeweled crown, a red ermine-trimmed robe and a gold medallion while sitting on a red velvet cushion.

• What to upload: a clear pet portrait with the face visible
• Template: Royalty Pet Photo

3. Past Life Job

Past Life Job reveals a funny montage of the work your pet supposedly did in a past life. In the example, a gray cat appears as a judge in a black robe and blue tie, raising a wooden gavel in a courtroom chair.

• What to upload: a clear pet photo with the face visible
• Template: Past Life Job

4. Animal Rising Star

Animal Rising Star makes your pet a rising star in a lively city scene. The example shows a corgi puppy in a blue superhero-style cape trotting along a wet, neon-lit street at night, with yellow taxis behind it.

• What to upload: a clear pet photo with the face visible
• Template: Animal Rising Star

Send your pet on an adventure

Behind the handlebars, on a soccer field or towering over traffic: these three put your pet in motion. Again, the upload is your pet's photo.

5. Little Racers

Little Racers lets your pet take the wheel in a tiny racing scene. In the example, a gray tabby kitten grips the handlebars of a motorcycle on a tree-lined road, its head just above the headlight.

• What to upload: a clear pet photo with the face visible
• Template: Little Racers

6. Golden Pitch Crasher

Golden Pitch Crasher lets your dog crash the pitch with a golden soccer run. In the example, a golden retriever dribbles a ball across the grass while players in white uniforms run behind it.

• What to upload: a clear dog photo with the full body visible
• Template: Golden Pitch Crasher

7. Huge Cutie

Huge Cutie turns your pet into an oversized, adorable companion. In the example, a giant kitten walks down a city avenue between skyscrapers.

• What to upload: a clear cat or dog photo with the face visible
• Template: Huge Cutie

Caught at midnight: you play the owner

In these six, you upload a photo of yourself, not your pet. The animal comes with the template, and you play the sleepy owner who opens the door at night to find something absurd going on. Several examples use a fisheye, doorbell-camera style view of the front porch.

8. Bagpipes

Bagpipes casts a cat giving a midnight bagpipe concert, with you as the sleepy owner who steps out to stop it. In the example, a silver tabby stands on its hind legs on a lit front porch, playing a green tartan bagpipe beside the open door.

• What to upload: a clear photo of you, face clearly visible (the upload field is labeled "Your photo")
• Template: Bagpipes

9. Purrcussionist

Purrcussionist swaps the bagpipe for a midnight triangle recital, and you're once more the sleepy owner coming out to end it. In the example, an orange tabby stands upright on the porch, striking a metal triangle with a mallet, while a woman in gray pajamas waits in the doorway.

• What to upload: a clear photo of you, face clearly visible
• Template: Purrcussionist

10. Skateboard Doge

In Skateboard Doge, a dog is skateboarding down the hallway at midnight, and you're the owner who comes out to put a stop to it. Later in the example, the dog sits on the floor while the owner holds the skateboard up.

• What to upload: a clear photo of you, face clearly visible
• Template: Skateboard Doge

11. OCD Raccoon

OCD Raccoon brings a wild visitor rather than a pet: a raccoon is tidying up your porch at midnight, and you open the door to catch it mid-clean. In the example, the raccoon runs a vacuum hose over the doormat as a young woman in light-blue pajamas steps out behind it.

• What to upload: a clear photo of you, face clearly visible
• Template: OCD Raccoon

12. Ruff Choir

Ruff Choir is set at 3 a.m., and you're the one who has to break up the dogs' choir practice. In the example, five beagle-type hounds, seen from behind, lift their heads toward a woman in pajamas stepping out of the front door.

• What to upload: a clear photo of yourself
• Template: Ruff Choir

13. Wind Chime Parrot

Wind Chime Parrot is another 3 a.m. scene, and this time you have to confiscate a parrot's favorite toy. In the example, a green, blue and red parrot perches beside a metal wind chime hanging in the open doorway, with a person partly hidden inside.

• What to upload: a clear photo of yourself
• Template: Wind Chime Parrot

A tiny puppy in your hands

The last template also asks for a photo of you, and the tiny animal comes from the template.

14. Pocket Puppy

Pocket Puppy is built around a pocket-sized companion moment: a tiny pet small enough to fit in your hands. The puppy in the clip is part of the template, not a copy of your own dog.

• What to upload: a clear photo of your upper body
• Template: Pocket Puppy

Pet templates side by side

Making your pet video

1. Select this template.
2. Upload your photo (your pet's or your own, depending on the template).
3. Generate and post.

Every name above links to its template, and all but Trick or Treat sit together in the Pets category. To make one, use the VerseIn web app; VerseIn also offers iOS and Android apps. Once a generation finishes, the video is saved to your Media library.

For templates 8-14, if the photo shows someone other than you, ask that person first.

Tips for pet photos

The pet templates mostly ask for a clear face, so a sharp, well-lit shot goes a long way.

For the templates that star you (8-14), a clear photo of just one person is a safe start. The hints differ a little: Bagpipes, Purrcussionist, Skateboard Doge and OCD Raccoon want your face clearly visible, Ruff Choir and Wind Chime Parrot ask for a clear photo of yourself, and Pocket Puppy asks for your upper body.

How we sorted these templates

Every template here is a VerseIn template, and VerseIn publishes this blog. We grouped them by what happens in the video and by whose photo goes in, and the numbering follows those groups, not any ranking. Descriptions and upload hints come from each template page as listed in October 2026. For more seasonal ideas beyond pets, see the Halloween photo-to-video templates roundup.

FAQ

Can I use my own pet in every template?

No. Templates 1-7 use a photo of your pet; templates 8-14 use a photo of you, and the animal comes from the template.

Do these templates work with dogs, or only cats?

Follow each template's hint. Most of the pet-photo templates simply ask for a clear pet photo. Huge Cutie asks for a cat or dog, and Golden Pitch Crasher asks for a dog with its full body visible.

How do credits work for these templates?

Each clip costs credits, and the total shows up for you to approve before anything runs. A new account starts with free sign-up credits you can spend on it, and on a paid plan your exports carry no watermark. When a run stops because of a processing error, a timeout or a content safety check, VerseIn puts the credits back on its own. See the pricing page for what each plan includes.

Is there a Halloween pet template?

Yes: Trick or Treat puts your pet in a pumpkin costume on the doormat, begging for candy. The trick-or-treater guide walks through it. For more Halloween video ideas, see the candy crash video guide or the magic candy portal guide.