Best ways to put your dog or cat in the coffee making AI trend (2026)

The "dog making coffee AI" clip is everywhere right now: two fluffy dogs at a steel kitchen counter, one pours, one stirs, the milk spills, and both look completely innocent. It belongs to the bigger coffee making AI trend that spread on TikTok and Instagram in late October 2026, and the obvious next question is how to get your own dog or cat into it.

I looked at the realistic ways to do it. Prices were checked on 2026-11-06, so they may have changed by the time you read this. I built one of the tools below (Coffee Making AI), and I say so where it comes up.

1. Film it for real

Put a camera on a stand, give your dog a spot on the counter, and spill the milk yourself.

• Price: free
• Good for: people who want the real thing and don't mind cleaning up
• Downside: pets don't follow a script, and you need a second person plus a lot of takes. It also won't look like the AI clips people are copying.

2. A CapCut coffee template

Search for "coffee" in the templates inside the CapCut app. Most reposts of this trend on TikTok are made this way.

• Price: many templates are free, but a template marked Pro needs CapCut Pro to export without a watermark (check for the purple Pro badge before you edit)
• Good for: people who already edit in CapCut
• Downside: templates run on their own footage, so what you can swap depends on the template. Some take a face but not a pet.

3. Write your own prompt in an AI video generator

Generators such as Seedance, Kling or Google Flow can make the clip from two photos and a written prompt. Some tutorials also have you upload the original clip as a reference video.

• Price: it depends on the tool and plan, and I didn't compare them here
• Good for: people who like tuning a prompt and re-running it
• Downside: you need to write the kitchen, the spills and the straight-faced reaction yourself, and it can take several tries to get a pet that looks like your pet

4. MakeViral's coffee making template

MakeViral has a Coffee Making template that takes two photos of people, pets or toys, and it also covers the two-dogs version.

• Price: from 213 credits per video. Credit packs start at $9.99 for 100 credits, so one video comes to roughly $19 to $21.
• Good for: people who want a one-click template, plus the other trend templates on the same site
• Downside: one video costs more than the cheapest option below, and the credits are shared across everything on the site

5. Coffee Making AI (the one I built)

Coffee Making AI is a single-purpose site: upload two photos and it makes a new 10 or 15 second vertical video in the trend's kitchen with ByteDance Seedance 2.0. The first box is for the one who spoons the coffee and the second is for the one who pours the milk, and a pet or a toy goes in the second box.

• Price: $4.99 for a 10-second 480p video, $9.99 for 10 seconds at 720p. Credit packs start at $14.99. There is no free tier.
• Good for: a quick pet version with no prompt, no app and no account for one video
• Downside: it only makes this one trend, and it's paid. The video is newly generated from your photos, so it isn't the original clip with a face pasted in.

For the best result, use one subject per photo, in daylight. Pets should have the head and chest in view and people should be shown from the chest up. Only use photos of yourself, adults who agreed, or your own pets and toys.

Which should you pick?

If you just want to try it for free, film it or try a CapCut template. If you want to control every detail, use a generator and write the prompt. If you want a ready-made version with your own dog or cat and don't want to write anything, MakeViral or Coffee Making AI will do it. I wrote a longer guide on putting your dog or cat in the coffee making AI video with the photo tips.

The trend is only a couple of weeks old, so if you want to post one, do it soon.