Your cat or dog, up on two legs
Upload a photo of any pet. It stands up on its hind legs and dances with its front paws, just like the kittens in the original.
Make a La Calabaza AI Dance Video With Your Pet or Friends
Upload 1 to 3 photos of yourself, your friends, your cat or your dog. You get the La Calabaza trio: three dancers side by side, the middle one in a black cowboy hat, doing the La Calabaza routine. It’s a vertical 9:16 MP4 of up to 15 seconds with the original La Calabaza sound on it, ready for TikTok, Reels or Shorts.
1Your dancers
Middle dancerRequired · wears the cowboy hat · JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MBLeft side (optional)Leave empty and another photo fills inRight side (optional)Leave empty and another photo fills in
One person or pet per photo, face clearly visible, good light, whole body or at least the upper body. Pets stand up and dance on their hind legs. No sunglasses, heavy filters or other apps’ watermarks.
2Length
Continue with GoogleTikTok’s dancing cats trend
Original
AI version
AI version
- Same routine
- Original sound
- Your pet or crew
Clips are creators’ TikTok posts, credited on each one, not videos made on this site.
The routine
The Routine, Beat by Beat
It opens quietly with three dancers standing still. Hands come up and wave side to side, then the beat drops and everyone bounces and sways their hips, leans to one side, turns around for a back-to-camera wiggle and turns back. To finish, the middle dancer in the cowboy hat steps up to the camera, punching to the beat. Your video follows the same beats.
Make My La Calabaza VideoOriginal
Puppy version
What You Get With La Calabaza AI Dance
The same trio, the same routine and the same sound as the dancing cats, with your photos in it.
One, two or three dancers
One photo turns into identical triplets. Two photos put photo 1 in the middle and photo 2 on both sides as twins. Three photos give you three different dancers.
The real La Calabaza sound
Every video comes with the original sound from the trend, the same audio as the viral TikTok sound “sonido original - Pumpky”. No music to add.
The whole routine in 15 seconds
Stand still, hands up, the beat drop, the bounce, the lean, the turn and the step up to the camera. Short on credits? Pick the 10- or 6-second cut.
Ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
A vertical 9:16 MP4 in 720p, saved to your account. Download it or share it straight to TikTok, no editing app needed.
Pay once, keep your credits
Packs start at $9.90 with no subscription, and pack credits never expire. If a video fails twice, its credits go back to your account automatically.
Put Your Own Cat or Dog in the Dance
Lots of people have animated their own pet to the La Calabaza sound, like this tabby made to dance from a single photo with a phone template. Here, one photo of your pet becomes all three dancers: identical triplets in a row, the middle one in the cowboy hat, like the three kittens.
Or Dance It With Your Friends
Not everyone uses cats. One popular version is a man doing the dance himself on a balcony at night while the sky flashes with lightning, 30.1 million views. Upload yourself plus two friends for three different dancers, or just yourself to dance alongside two copies of you.
It Started as a Hand Dance
Before the cats, people were already dancing to Pumpky’s sound by rolling and waving their hands in front of their chest. This creator in scrubs did it in a parking garage in July 2026 and got 8.9 million views. Your video keeps that hand wave, then adds the bounce, the turn and the step-up.
Pick a Credit Pack
A 6-second video costs 6 credits, 10 seconds costs 13, and the full 15-second dance costs 20. Pay once by card, no subscription, and the credits you buy never expire.
Single
$9.90
One full video, or three short ones.
- 20 credits
- 1 full 15-second video
- or 3 6-second videos
- Original La Calabaza sound on every video
- 720p vertical MP4 (9:16)
- Credits never expire
Trio
$19.90
Three full videos: your pets, your friends, you.
- 60 credits
- 3 full 15-second videos
- or 10 6-second videos
- $6.63 per full video
- Original La Calabaza sound on every video
- 720p vertical MP4 (9:16)
- Credits never expire
Crew
$29.90
Five full videos for the whole family, pets too.
- 100 credits
- 5 full 15-second videos
- or 16 6-second videos
- $5.98 per full video
- Original La Calabaza sound on every video
- 720p vertical MP4 (9:16)
- Credits never expire
FAQ
La Calabaza AI Dance FAQ
Quick answers about the trend, your photos, credits and privacy. Anything else? Email [email protected].
What is La Calabaza AI Dance?
It’s a tool that turns your photos into a La Calabaza dance video, the TikTok trend where three kittens dance in a row to Pumpky’s song “LA CALABAZA (TINIEBLA Edit)”, the middle one in a black cowboy hat. You upload 1 to 3 photos of people or pets, and the AI makes a vertical video of them doing the routine with the original sound. It’s an independent fan-made tool, not affiliated with TikTok or the creators of the trend.
Is La Calabaza AI Dance free?
There are no free credits for signing up, but the daily check-in is free: 1, 1, 1, 1, then 2 credits, so five check-ins give you 6 credits, enough for one 6-second video. Otherwise the smallest pack, Single, is $9.90 for 20 credits, which is one full 15-second video or three 6-second ones. It’s a one-time payment, not a subscription.
What happens if my video fails?
We retry a failed render once automatically, at no extra cost. If it fails again, the credits go back to your account automatically. Photos the video service rejects (celebrity or public-figure faces, another app’s watermark, flags or political images) aren’t retried; you get your credits back and can try again with your own photo.
Who can see my photos?
Nobody else on the site: your photos and videos are never shown publicly. Photos go to our own storage and are sent to the AI video provider only to make your video. We don’t sell your photos or use them for anything else, and you can ask [email protected] to delete them at any time.
What does “la calabaza” mean?
“La calabaza” is Spanish for “the pumpkin”. The song is called that as a play on the producer’s name: Pumpky, pumpkin, calabaza. It’s also why the trend fits Halloween so well, and it’s peaking in October 2026.
What’s the La Calabaza song on TikTok?
It’s “LA CALABAZA (TINIEBLA Edit)” by Pumpky, a Latin American guaracha producer; the TikTok sound is “sonido original - Pumpky”. The hook is basically just the words “la calabaza”, and there are no published lyrics. The full track came out on streaming on January 8, 2026.
Can I make my dog or cat do the La Calabaza dance?
Yes. Upload a photo of your cat, dog or any pet, and it stands up on its hind legs and dances with its front paws, like the kittens in the original. With one photo you get three of your pet; add a second or third photo to mix pets or people.
Who made the original La Calabaza cats video?
The original was posted by @meowtakeover, an AI kitten account on TikTok, on August 27, 2026, so the dancing kittens were made with AI, not filmed. It has 29.2 million views (TikTok’s count on October 20, 2026). We’re not affiliated with @meowtakeover.
Your Turn to Dance La Calabaza
Upload a photo of yourself, a friend or your pet and get the trio with the cowboy hat in the middle and the original sound on top.