Put an animated pet on your TikTok Live

Chat scrolls past. A gift arrives, the notification slides away, and unless you happen to be looking at the right corner of the screen, nothing on stream acknowledges that someone just spent money on you.

A BoTik Pet is a small animated character that lives in your scene and answers for you. Someone sends a Rose and it hugs the air. Someone follows and it waves. A viewer types !pet and it leans into the invisible hand. It is one transparent browser source, it works in OBS, Streamlabs and TikTok LIVE Studio, and the free pets cost nothing.

A pixel-art corgi with both paws in the air and confetti falling around it — A legendary gift landing, as viewers see it. The background is transparent — that purple is the scene behind it.

What happens when someone sends a gift

TikTok Live

a viewer sends a gift

BoTik

decides what the pet does

Your pet’s stage

a web page at a secret URL

OBS Browser Source

composited into your scene

BoTik decides *what* the pet should do; the stage decides *how* to play it. That split is why switching pets never changes anything in OBS.

Two minutes to a pet on stream

Open Pets and pick one.
The preset pets are free for everyone, with no credits and no Premium. Press Put on stage and it is live immediately — you can change your mind as often as you like.
Free presets. Your pick goes on the stage straight away.
Copy your stage URL.
One URL serves every pet you own, so switching pets later never means touching OBS again. Use the Copy button rather than selecting the text — the token is long, and a truncated URL fails silently with a blank source.
The card also spells out the OBS steps, so you do not have to come back here for them.
Add a Browser source in OBS.
Paste the URL, set the size to 600 × 600, and drag the pet wherever you want it. The background is transparent, so it sits over your camera or your game without a box around it.
Test it before you go live.
Turn on Also play in OBS in the Stage preview and press a reaction. The same event goes to the preview and to your browser source, which is how you confirm the source works without starting a stream.
Every reaction has a test button. The preview is muted by default — the stream’s copy is the one that should be heard.

Treat the URL like a password

Anyone who has it can open your pet’s stage. Keep it off your stream and out of public Discords. If it does leak, New URL issues a fresh one and disconnects the old one on the spot.

What your pet reacts to

Out of the box your pet already answers the events that matter. Gifts are tiered by what the whole streak was worth, so a run of Roses climbs into the bigger reaction on its own.

When this happens	Your pet	Default cooldown
A gift worth up to 9 diamonds	Hearts and a happy sound	None
10 – 299 diamonds	Dances, stars	None
300 diamonds or more	Jumps up and celebrates, confetti	None
Someone follows	Waves and greets them	3 s
Someone shares your live	Hearts	5 s
A new subscriber	Dances	None
Every 500 likes	Hearts	None

The Reactions editor with rules for gifts, showing When, Pet does, Cooldown, Animation and Sound controls — Every rule is editable: the trigger, what plays, how often, and which sound.

You can add rules of your own, point one at a specific gift rather than a tier, greet named VIPs by handle, and set a cooldown so a rose flood does not turn your pet into a strobe light.

Letting chat play with it

Four chat commands are on by default. They are the cheapest engagement you will ever add, because they cost the viewer nothing and give them something to do between gifts.

!pet (or !pat) — the pet leans into it and wiggles.
!dance — a little dance.
!feed (or !treat) — it eats a treat.
!hi (or !hello, !hey) — it waves back.

The per-viewer cooldown is the important one

Each command has a limit per person on top of the global one — 30 seconds for !pet, a minute for !dance and !feed. Without it, one viewer holds your pet for the whole stream while everyone else watches. Raise it if chat is busy; do not set it to zero.

Giving it a voice of its own

Your pet makes natural sounds — meows, barks, chirps — picked to match its species. There are several takes of each, chosen at random, so it never sounds like a soundboard.

The Sounds card listing sound states such as greet, happy and excited, each with Upload and Generate buttons — Seven moments the pet can make a sound. Upload your real pet, or generate one.

The part people actually love: record your own animal. Upload your real cat’s meow and it replaces the kit on every pet you use, on every stream. Your sounds follow you, not the pet. You can also generate one with AI on your own ElevenLabs key, and keep up to three takes per moment.

The sound comes out of the browser source

It is your OBS source that plays it, so it reaches your stream the same way any other browser source audio does. If you cannot hear it, check that the source is not muted in the Audio Mixer and that Control audio via OBS is on. The Volume slider on the Stage settings card sets how loud the pet sits next to your music and alerts.

The Stage settings card with effects, sleep timer, mirror, pet sounds switch and a volume slider

Letting it talk (optional)

Talking is off by default, on purpose — not every streamer wants a chatty pet, and a voice on top of your own is a real choice rather than a nice extra. Turn it on and your pet thanks people out loud in your BoTik voice: gifts, follows, shares and new subscribers.

The pet on stream with a speech bubble reading “Aww, thanks Maria!” — The bubble follows the audio, not the decision, so the words appear exactly when they are spoken.

Lines go through the same queue as your chat messages, so nothing talks over anything else, and there is a gap between them so your pet never becomes a machine gun. It only ever thanks people — it will not ask anyone for gifts, and that is not a setting.

A pet that answers your viewers

This is the one that changes the room. A viewer types !ask do you like naps? and your pet answers them out loud, in character, in your language.

The Talking card with the Let my pet talk switch on, and an Answer viewers section marked Premium with a description field — Answering is Premium and off until you turn it on. The limits are stated where you turn it on.

You describe your pet in a few words — "a cheeky corgi who loves snacks and belly rubs" — and that is the character it answers in. Replies are one short line, capped at 20 per stream, with 20 seconds between them and five minutes per viewer, so it stays a treat rather than a takeover.

Give it an attitude, not a biography

Two or three traits beat a paragraph. "Grumpy, sleepy, obsessed with snacks" produces sharper answers than a backstory, because every reply has to fit in one line anyway.

Note

Answering is the one pet feature that needs Premium. Everything above — the pet, the reactions, the sounds, the commands, the talking — works on a free account.

Your own pet, from your own photo

The presets are good. Your own animal is better. If you have made an AI avatar — from a photo of your actual cat, or from a description — you can bring that exact character to life as an animated pet.

Make an avatar first.
Any READY style of any avatar works. Pixel art, anime, 3D — the pet keeps the style you chose, so it matches the art you already use.
Press Create a pet and pick it.
Name it, confirm, and leave it. It costs 500 BoTik Credits and takes about ten minutes.
Come back to a pet that can do everything the presets can.
Behind the scenes it draws your character in twelve poses and films ten animations between them — idle, wave, heart, dance, celebrate, three for sleeping, and one for talking. Animations that come out wrong are re-shot at our cost, not yours.

Note

A mostly bright-green avatar is refused before you are charged — green is what the animation backdrop is keyed on, so a green pet would be half-erased. Pick another style or another avatar.

Teaching it new tricks

A finished pet can learn more. Open Animations on your pet and there is a library of six extra reactions, each filmed from the poses your pet already has, so it is unmistakably the same character.

The Animations dialog showing six library reactions — eating, nuzzle, amazed, blowing a kiss, bowing, spinning — each with an Add button — Six to add at 60 credits each. Eating and Nuzzle also upgrade what `!feed` and `!pet` play.

And then the part with no ceiling: describe your own. Write what your pet should do in a few words, and it gets filmed in your pet’s style, starting and ending exactly where its idle animation does so it drops into the stream without a jump.

The Describe your own box with a finished reaction “spins around and throws confetti” and a new one being typed — 80 credits each, up to eight per pet. If one cannot be filmed, the credits come back.

Anything you add shows up in the Animation dropdown on every rule, so you can point it at exactly the moment you want — your confetti spin for a Galaxy, a grateful bow for every new subscriber. A pet that does not have that animation simply reacts the way it always did, so your rules keep working when you switch pets.

What it costs

	Credits	Notes
A preset pet	Free	For everyone, no Premium
Your own animated pet	500	From one of your AI avatars
A library reaction	60	Six to choose from
A reaction you describe	80	Up to eight per pet
Re-shooting one animation	50	Free if it failed
Answering viewers with `!ask`	—	Premium

BoTik Credits are worth a cent each, so a custom pet is $5 of credit. Premium grants 500 credits every month — which is exactly one custom pet a month, or eight library reactions, or six of your own — and it is what unlocks !ask. If you are going to make more than one pet, or you want your pet answering chat, Premium is the cheaper way in. Credits also come from referrals if you would rather not pay for them.

If something is not working

The source is blank. The URL was truncated, or the pet was taken off the stage. Re-copy it with the Copy button and check the Pets page still shows one pet as *On stage*.
Nothing reacts while you are live. BoTik has to be connected to your TikTok Live — press Go Live in BoTik after you start streaming. Test events work either way, which is how you tell the two apart.
No sound. Check the browser source is not muted in the OBS Audio Mixer, that Pet sounds is on, and that the volume slider is not at zero.
The pet is a still image. A browser that cannot play transparent video falls back to still poses. In OBS this does not happen; in Safari it does.
It fell asleep. That is the inactivity timer — five minutes of nothing by default. Change it or switch it off in Stage settings.

That is the whole feature. Put a free pet on stage first and watch what chat does with !pet — then decide whether it is worth giving them your own animal to play with. If you have not set up a browser source before, the overlays guide walks through it in more detail.