Free The Secret Life of Pets Coloring Pages: 50+ printable PDF pages covering Max, Duke, Gidget, Snowball, Chloe, and nearly every pet from both films. The colors are already decided for you by real animal breeds, which makes this one of the easiest sets to get right. All free, download PDF to print, or color online.
The film’s whole premise is that these pets are exactly what they appear to be when their owners are home, and completely themselves when they’re not. That energy shows up in the coloring pages, too. Some pages catch them in calm, sweet moments with their owners. Others catch them mid-chaos on their own. The same dog looks very different depending on which kind of page you’re working on.
With 52 pages spread across both films, this is one of the bigger sets on the site. There’s plenty of variety, from quick single-character portraits to busy group scenes with four or five pets packed in together. Younger kids tend to go straight for Max and Gidget. Older fans enjoy the secondary characters, especially Snowball in full dramatic mode and Chloe in her various states of not caring.
These pages are great for home, classrooms, and pet lovers of all ages. They are fan-made coloring pages and are not official, licensed, or endorsed by Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures, or any rights holder of The Secret Life of Pets.
Quick Answer
The Secret Life of Pets coloring pages are a free set of 50+ printable PDFs and online sheets featuring Max, Duke, Gidget, Snowball, Chloe, Buddy, Mel, Pops, and the full two-film cast. Every pet’s color matches its real animal species, so the coloring choices are intuitive and the set is accessible for all ages.
Best for: Secret Life of Pets fans, pet lovers, younger children for the simple portraits, older fans for the detailed group scenes
Formats: printable PDF and online coloring
Popular pages: Max and Gidget, Cute Snowball, Funny Chloe, Max and Duke, Gidget from Secret Life of Pets 2
Creative uses: home coloring, classroom activities, apartment building pet display, Max and Duke duo, owner-and-pet portrait pair
What’s Inside The Secret Life of Pets Coloring Pages
Max Pages
Max gets more pages than any other character, which makes sense since he’s the film’s main character. He shows up with Duke, with Gidget, with his owner Katie, with the young boy Liam from Pets 2, and in several solo action poses.
Coloring Max: he’s a white and light tan Jack Russell Terrier mix with a small, compact build and very expressive dark eyes. His base coat is mostly white with warm tan or brown patches around his face and ears. Keep him light and clean overall; he’s not a scruffy dog. His expressions do a lot of work across the many pages he appears on, so getting his large, round eyes right makes a noticeable difference to how the page reads.
Duke Pages
Duke shows up solo, with Max, and in a couple of group pages, including one with Katie and Liam.
Coloring Duke: he’s a big, shaggy brown dog, the warm reddish-brown of a Newfoundland or similar large breed. His coat is thick and slightly unruly, which means some tonal variation in his fur, darker on his back and slightly lighter on his belly and muzzle, makes him read as genuinely fluffy rather than flat. He’s much bigger than Max in every shared page, and keeping that size difference clear in how you approach the shading makes the duo pages more fun.
Gidget Pages
Gidget is one of the most expressive characters in the set. She has solo pages in multiple moods, a jumping scene, and her own Pets 2 portrait.
Coloring Gidget: she’s a very small white Pomeranian, fluffy and round, and her color is essentially pure white with the lightest possible warm grey in the shaded areas. The temptation is to add more grey or beige to define her shape, but keeping her as close to pure white as possible while using shading only for depth is the right approach. Her large pink bow is the one vivid color anchor on most of her pages, and it’s worth making that pink confident and warm rather than pastel.
Snowball Pages
Snowball appears in solo pages, an angry version, a cute version, and one with a Bulldog.
Coloring Snowball: like Gidget, he’s white, but his white reads differently. Where Gidget is soft and fluffy, Snowball is sleek and slightly intense. His fur is smooth rather than layered, so a cleaner, flatter white suits him better. His pink eyes and inner ears are the detail that makes him look like a rabbit rather than a generic white animal. Keep those pink tones precise, and he reads immediately as the dramatic, self-important character he is.
Chloe Pages
Chloe has a solo page, a Funny variant, a Fat variant, and a Pets 2 appearance.
Coloring Chloe: she’s a grey tabby cat with a round, heavy build and a permanent expression of mild disdain. Her grey has a cool undertone rather than a warm one, and subtle, darker grey tabby stripes give her the texture of a real domestic cat rather than a flat animation fill. The Fat Chloe page leans into her most exaggerated proportions, which is one of the funnier pages in the set, and a slightly heavier shading on her belly emphasizes the joke without overdoing it.
Buddy, Mel, Pops, and Supporting Pet Pages
Buddy the Dachshund, Mel the Pug, Pops the elderly Basset Hound, and a number of other apartment-building pets each have their own pages.
Coloring the supporting pets: Buddy is a tan and brown Dachshund, long and low. Mel is a fawn and black Pug with a very wrinkled face. Pops is a grey and white elderly Basset Hound with droopy ears. Each one has a species-specific color that can be quickly looked up for accuracy, and the variety of breeds across these pages is one of the things that makes the set genuinely interesting to work through rather than repetitive.
Rooster, Daisy, and Pets 2 Characters
Rooster, a rough and tough Australian Shepherd, and Daisy, an enthusiastic Shih Tzu, join the cast in Pets 2.
Coloring Rooster and Daisy: Rooster is a blue merle Australian Shepherd, meaning a distinctive blue-grey and black speckled coat with warm tan points above his eyes and on his legs. He’s one of the most visually interesting coat patterns in the set. Daisy is a black and white Shih Tzu with a cheerful bow in her topknot, simple and bright in the same spirit as the rest of the cast.
Human Characters, Leonard, and General Pages
Katie and the young boy Liam each appear in pages with Max. Leonard the Basset Hound, who listens to heavy metal, Norman the hamster, and a few branded general pages round out the set.
Coloring the human pages and general characters: Katie and Liam use ordinary warm human skin and hair tones. Leonard is a memorable page because of his heavy metal context rather than his coloring, which is a standard tan Basset Hound. Norman is a tiny grey hamster who barely fills his corner of any page he’s on. The general pages work with the warm, apartment-life palette established across the character pages.
Printable PDF and Online Secret Life of Pets Coloring Pages
Every page is available as a printable PDF or as an online coloring sheet.
Using both formats: the PDF is great for larger group pages where detail matters. The online version is quick and convenient for younger kids who want to jump straight in. Both keep the cast’s rounded, expressive character designs clear on paper and screen.
What These Pages Do
The nice thing about coloring The Secret Life of Pets is that there’s no guesswork. Max is white with tan patches because Jack Russells are. Duke is shaggy reddish-brown because large fluffy dogs are. Chloe is cool grey with tabby markings because that’s what she is. The film worked from real breeds, and the coloring pages carry that same grounding. Looking up a quick photo of the real animal before picking up a pencil gives better color guidance than any instruction could. Rooster’s blue merle coat and Buddy’s dachshund tan are both just a search away, and the real breed always makes the page come alive in a way that a generic fill would not.
This is one of the more fun sets to color with younger kids because every character is a pet they’ve probably already seen in real life. Connecting a coloring page to a real dog breed or cat they know creates a natural conversation, and it gives even very young colorists a clear color reference they trust. Parents and teachers often find that these pages lead naturally into talking about different dog and cat breeds, which turns a coloring session into something a little more than just coloring.
The American Art Therapy Association recognizes that coloring pages featuring domestic animals offer a warm and emotionally resonant creative experience, particularly when the characters resemble pets children may already know personally. The Secret Life of Pets cast of real breeds makes that connection especially direct.
The American Academy of Pediatrics supports creative activities that strengthen children’s connections to animals. For children who have pets, coloring a character that looks like their own dog or cat is a meaningful and personalizing experience.
How to Color The Secret Life of Pets Coloring Pages
A few habits that work well across the whole set.
Look up the real breed before you start any pet you’re not sure about. Rooster’s blue merle coat, Buddy’s warm dachshund tan, and Mel’s fawn pug coloring are all easy to find in a quick image search, and the real animal is always a better reference than guessing from memory.
Keep Max and Gidget as white as possible. Both characters read best when their white stays clean and light, with shading used only to suggest form rather than to add warmth or color. Any significant beige or grey on either of them, and they start to look like different dogs.
Use Duke’s coat layering to make him look genuinely fluffy. A flat reddish-brown fill makes him look like a stuffed toy. Adding slightly darker tones along his back and lighter tones on his belly and muzzle turns the same brown into real-looking thick fur.
Snowball’s pink eyes are the most important detail on his pages. Without them, he’s just another white animal. With them, he’s immediately recognizable, and his personality reads clearly from across the room.
On group pages, work out each character’s palette on a separate scrap first. With four or five different animal species on the same page, planning which brown or grey belongs to which pet before committing saves a lot of confusion mid-page.
5 Creative Craft Ideas with The Secret Life of Pets Coloring Pages
Apartment Building Pet Directory
Color one small portrait of each main pet, then trim all of them to matching square sizes.
Arrange and glue them in a grid on a large backing sheet, like an apartment building floor plan, and label each square with the pet’s name and breed. Takes about thirty minutes and makes a great reference guide for fans of the series.
Max and Duke Door Hanger
Color the Max and Duke duo page, then cut the page into a tall rectangle with a hole punched at the top.
Thread a ribbon or yarn through the hole to turn the duo page into a hanging decoration, perfect for a child’s bedroom door. Takes about fifteen minutes.
Snowball Versus Snowball Mood Cards
Color the Cute Snowball page and the Angry Snowball page on separate cards in consistent white, keeping his expression as the only difference.
Stand the two cards side by side to show just how much personality a white rabbit can convey without changing a single color. Takes about twenty minutes.
Chloe Cat Breed Study
Color all four Chloe pages in the set, keeping her cool grey tabby coloring consistent across the Funny, Fat, standard, and Pets 2 versions.
Stack the four pages and staple along one edge to make a small flip book showing Chloe across her various states of not caring. Takes about twenty-five minutes.
Owner and Pet Portrait Pair
Color a Katie with Max page and a solo Max page, keeping Max’s white and tan coloring identical across both.
Trim both to matching sizes and display them side by side to capture the film’s central relationship: the calm moment with the owner and the chaotic self left behind when the door closes. Takes about twenty minutes.
FAQ About The Secret Life of Pets Coloring Pages
Are these Secret Life of Pets coloring pages free, and can I color them online?
Yes, completely free. Download the PDF to print at home, or color directly on the website without printing anything.
Does the set cover both films, or mainly the first Secret Life of Pets?
Both films are covered. The first film’s cast, Max, Duke, Gidget, Snowball, Chloe, Buddy, Mel, and Pops, make up most of the pages. Pets 2 characters, including Rooster, Daisy, and Liam, also appear across several pages.
What is The Secret Life of Pets?
The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 animated film from Illumination Entertainment that imagines what household pets get up to while their owners are away at work. A sequel followed in 2019. The films follow Max, a small terrier mix whose comfortable life is disrupted when his owner adopts a large stray dog named Duke. You can read more on Wikipedia.
What colors should I use for Max and Duke?
Max is mostly white with warm tan or light brown patches around his face and ears, clean and compact. Duke is a warm reddish-brown with a shaggy, thick coat that works best with some tonal variation to suggest real fur depth rather than a flat fill.
What colors should I use for Gidget and Snowball?
Both are white, but differently. Gidget is a fluffy Pomeranian, soft and round, so her white benefits from the lightest warm shading to show depth. Her pink bow is the standout color accent. Snowball is a sleek white rabbit with distinctive pink eyes and inner ears; his fur is cleaner and flatter than Gidget’s, and the pink eyes are what make him instantly recognizable.
Who are Rooster, Daisy, and the newer characters from Pets 2?
Rooster is a blue merle Australian Shepherd who appears in Pets 2, with a striking speckled blue-grey and black coat with warm tan markings. Daisy is a cheerful Shih Tzu in black and white. Both are worth looking up by breed before coloring to get their specific patterns right.
Are these official Secret Life of Pets coloring pages?
No. These are fan-made coloring sheets for personal use only, not affiliated with or endorsed by Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures, or any rights holder of The Secret Life of Pets.
Why does Chloe have a “fat” variant page, and what makes her coloring unique?
The Fat Chloe page leans into one of the film’s running gags about her enthusiastic relationship with food. Her coloring is a cool grey tabby rather than the warmer browns used for most of the dogs in the set, which makes her read immediately as a cat even in a busy group scene. The cool grey-with-tabby-markings combination is one of the more specific color choices in the whole collection.
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Three things worth keeping in mind: look up the real breed for any pet you’re not certain about, keep Max and Gidget’s white genuinely clean and light, and add some coat layering to Duke to make him look properly fluffy. Those three habits cover most of what separates a great page from a flat one in this set.
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