Long dog walks are for nothing if not visualizing whatever silliness pops into my head—which today happened to be our puppy Ziggy becoming an impossible object called a “Ziggule.”
I shared this with my cousin Alicia, who does a tremendous amount of work sheltering & rescuing dogs in Austin, and she requested a portrait of their current foster pooch (Tesseract). I was of course all too happy to oblige:
As it happens, folks at Google have had the same idea, and they’ve been putting Nano Banana to work helping zhuzh up pics of shelter pets in hopes of helping them find their forever homes. Let’s hear it for using AI & old-fashioned human creativity for good!
Photos play a big role in pet adoption.
We’ve teamed up with shelters across the country to give rescue pets glamorous headshots that show off their personalities, made with Nano Banana Pro.
Take a look below and contact our partner shelters for adoption inquiries pic.twitter.com/Lh565trjgR
— Google Gemini (@GeminiApp) January 21, 2026