What begins as a sweet reunion between a man and his Labrador quickly unravels into something far stranger in a TikTok video that has now racked up more than 280,000 views.
At first glance, the January 12 clip shared by Davyn Yanes (@davynyanes) looks like an ordinary moment: a man walking through his front door with his dog after picking him up from a boarding facility. But once inside, something isn’t quite right—and viewers are taken along as he slowly pieces together the truth.
Indoor footage shows the man studying the Labrador’s behavior closely. The dog looks slimmer, its coat is a slightly darker shade, and it wanders straight into his bedroom—a place his dog never goes. Other details raise red flags: the dog sits differently, the collar is positioned wrong, and a quick check of its elbows reveals they’re not black, unlike his own pet’s.
On the phone, he tries to explain that the dog beside him simply isn’t his. A FaceTime call to a woman seals it—she immediately confirms the dog is not theirs. The video ends with a photo of the mystery pup and the text: “this is not my dog.”
Yanes captioned the clip: “Took me an hour to realize this…. I picked up the wrong dog from the dog house,” which has earned more than 26,000 likes.
Viewers flooded the comments with jokes and relatable stories.
“The wrong dog is having the time of his life on his new adventure,” said one user.
Another pointed out: “Mom noticed in a second; dad hours later,” one person wrote. A remark that aligns with a January YouGov study showing women are twice as likely as men to consider themselves their dog’s parent (52% vs. 26%).
Another user recalled: “I remember the man who took the wrong dog and only realized it when his cats attacked the dog—it was on the news.”
“The dog acting like he been there all his life and doesn’t know what you’re talking about,” joked a fourth.
While the man in the video failed to recognize his own dog, the opposite may be true from the dog’s perspective—at least according to YouGov data showing just how deeply people believe their pets understand them.
The survey offers a broader look at how deeply owners believe they connect with their animals. Most dog owners (77%) say their pets understand them very well, and twenty two respondents said their dog knows them better than their friends or family.
Newsweek reached out to @davynyanes for comment via TikTok. We could not verify the details of the case.
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