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Your cat or dog with its whole body in view, or you facing the camera in good light. Two or three pets? Add one photo each.
La Calabaza Dance: Your Pet as the Dancing Cats
La Calabaza dance from one photo: your cat or dog times three, cowboy hat and round glasses on, or you dancing with the kittens. No CapCut template.
La Calabaza is all over TikTok until Halloween. Post yours while the sound is still everywhere.
What one 12s video costs
| 480p | 720p | |
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| StandardSeedance 2 Mini | 430 credits | 925 credits |
| FastSeedance 2 Fast | 700 credits | 1,485 credits |
| ProSeedance 2.0 | 860 credits | 1,845 credits |
| UltraSeedance 2.5 | 1,265 credits | 2,835 credits |
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Examples
La Calabaza dance examples
Three La Calabaza clips posted on Instagram: a garage crew, a cowboy living room, a pumpkin porch. Each one is a scene in the generator above, so picking it and adding your pet's photo gets you that version.
Crew
The parking garage crew
Three kids and their mum dance the routine under the concrete beams while three white kittens, cowboy hat in the middle and round glasses on the right, do every step in front of them. Posted on Instagram by @stdkarla.
Make the crew versionCowboy
The cowboy living room
A guy in a white cowboy hat dances in his living room behind three little cats in pink, brown and tan cowboy outfits, and on the last beat he lunges at the camera. Posted on Instagram by @edgar.ramirez2510.
Give me the cowboy catsHalloween
The pumpkin costume
Green face paint, a jack-o'-lantern costume and a leafy hat, then a cut to a porch full of glowing pumpkins where she dances in a line with three kittens dressed as pumpkins. Posted on Instagram by @paochicapao.
Put me in the pumpkin lineThe trend
What the La Calabaza dance trend is
The La Calabaza dance is this October's dancing-cats meme: three tiny kittens stand up on their back legs by a road at night and dance in perfect sync to the song "La Calabaza" (Spanish for "the pumpkin"), one in a little black cowboy hat, one in round glasses. Now everyone is swapping in their own cat or dog, or dancing the steps right next to the kittens, before Halloween on Saturday, October 31.
Video tool
Here the dance is built around your photo, not pasted over someone else's clip: the three dancers, the hat, the glasses, the sync and the spin are already written in, with no template link to chase. Want your pet dancing solo, or another routine? The AI pet dance generator gets one, two or three pets up on two legs, and the Thriller dance AI video gives you the other Halloween routine.
Creative engine
What the generator is doing
Your photo goes into Seedance 2.0 Mini as the dancer to keep, so the fur, markings or face stay put through every step, and the prompt builds the road, the hat, the glasses and the routine around it. The price of each clip sits on the Generate button, so you see it before the engine starts.
1–3 photos
of your pets, or of you, face clearly visible
12 s
the stand-up, the sync dance, the spin
9:16
vertical, for TikTok and Reels
Three kittens…
Cowboy hat in the middle, round glasses on the right, the kids dancing behind.
…and one pumpkin
Face painted green, jack-o'-lantern costume on, dancing in the line with three pumpkin kittens.
How to do it
How to make the La Calabaza dance with AI
Upload a photo in your phone's browser and your dance comes back a few minutes later, with no CapCut template, no prompt to copy and no app to install.
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Scene
Keep the night road, or tap another version
The default is your pet times three by a road under the street lamps. Tap the garage crew, the cowboy living room or the pumpkin line, or press Random for another scene.
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Post
Add the song and post it
Your clip comes back vertical. Put the trending La Calabaza sound on it in TikTok or Reels, and tag whoever owns the cat.
Ideas
Who to put in your La Calabaza dance
Three dancers, one hat, one pair of glasses. The fun is in who you cast before Halloween comes and goes.
Your cat, three times
The cat that ignores you all day, finally dancing on cue, in sync with itself.
The whole pet household
Cat, dog and the other cat: one photo each and they share the stage, hat on whoever deserves it.
You and the kittens
Your photo dancing the steps behind three little cats, like the versions people keep sharing.
The Halloween costume crew
Already dressed as pumpkins? Upload the costume photo and dance in the line with the pumpkin kittens.
Answers
La Calabaza dance FAQ
What the name means, where the dancing cats come from and what you get from one photo.
"La calabaza" is Spanish for "the pumpkin", which is why the trend is everywhere in October and why so many versions end up in jack-o'-lantern costumes on a porch.
The La Calabaza kittens standing on their back legs and dancing in sync are made with AI, which is why people can put their own pets into them. On Kavel your photo goes in and a new 12-second clip comes out, with your pet as the dancers.
Most people just call it the La Calabaza dancing cats, after the song. The three look different on purpose: one in a cowboy hat, one in round glasses, one bare-headed, and in your clip all three can be your own pet.
Yes. Upload one photo of your cat and it becomes all three dancers, with the same fur and markings. Add a second and third photo and each pet gets its own spot in the line. Dogs work too.
It comes with its own upbeat original beat, not the song. Add the trending La Calabaza sound in TikTok or Reels when you post.
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Same photo, next clip: your pet singing, your cat as a tiny knight, or a ghost photoshoot.
Make your La Calabaza dance today
One photo in, and a few minutes later you get a 12-second vertical clip of your pet times three, or you with the kittens, dancing La Calabaza. Post it before Halloween on October 31, while the sound is still everywhere.