{"id":23680,"date":"2026-03-10T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23680"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:12:32","slug":"using-ai-to-save-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/using-ai-to-save-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI to save pets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long dog walks are for nothing if not visualizing whatever silliness pops into my head\u2014which today happened to be our puppy Ziggy becoming an impossible object called a &#8220;Ziggule.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ziggule.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ziggule-1024x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ziggule-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ziggule-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ziggule-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ziggule.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I shared this with my cousin Alicia, who does a tremendous amount of work sheltering &amp; rescuing dogs in Austin, and she requested a portrait of their current foster pooch (Tesseract). I was of course all too happy to oblige:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tesseract.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tesseract-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tesseract-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tesseract-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tesseract-768x1124.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tesseract.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it happens, folks at Google have had the same idea, and they&#8217;ve been putting Nano Banana to work helping <em>zhuzh<\/em> up pics of shelter pets in hopes of helping them find their forever homes. Let&#8217;s hear it for using AI &amp; old-fashioned human creativity for good!<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Photos play a big role in pet adoption.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve teamed up with shelters across the country to give rescue pets glamorous headshots that show off their personalities, made with Nano Banana Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look below and contact our partner shelters for adoption inquiries <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lh565trjgR\">pic.twitter.com\/Lh565trjgR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google Gemini (@GeminiApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeminiApp\/status\/2013768253471088857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long dog walks are for nothing if not visualizing whatever silliness pops into my head\u2014which today happened to be our puppy Ziggy becoming an impossible object called a &#8220;Ziggule.&#8221; I shared this with my cousin Alicia, who does a tremendous amount of work sheltering &amp; rescuing dogs in Austin, and she requested a portrait of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23684,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions\/23684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}