A video of an over-excited dog ruining a birthday cake gift has gone viral on TikTok.
Posted by user @chelsey3022 and having 13.3 million views, this clip shows a woman picking up a large cake lit by candles and sparklers in her kitchen and carefully carrying it to her living room.
As she walks to her table, a voice is heard singing “Happy Birthday,” but an excited dog, trying to reach for the cake, follows behind the woman. A sound like a smoke alarm is heard in the background.

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Just as the woman is about to put the cake down, the dog leaps and pushes the creamy pastry out of the woman’s hands, splattering it face down onto the table. As guests ponder the ruined cake, the entire room goes silent and sparklers continue to go off on the marble tabletops.
The post was shared with the caption “#cakefail” along with a crying emoji.
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Dogs that eat candles are also dangerous. In an article on the website of the veterinary hospital chain VCA, veterinarian Dr Catherine Barnett writes: [their] Ingestion is a gastrointestinal foreign body and possible obstruction. In addition to an upset stomach, ingestion of large pieces may require surgical removal of the candle. ”
It wasn’t just the candlelight that got the dogs excited, it was the party guests too.His March 2016 study published in the journal animal Excitable behavior can be “triggered by many everyday scenarios,” but reported “more often and more severely” when owners and others come to the dog’s home or play with the dog. It is most often done
“Surprisingly, food preparation by owners did not prompt agitated behavior,” the researchers said, adding that owners who reported that their dogs were jumping “occasionally or more often” were 30% more likely to jump. was less than 1.
This could be because owners trained their dogs to sit and wait for food, or because they prepared food in a separate room so their pets couldn’t see them, the study said.
Several TikTokers who commented on the video suggested their dogs needed coaching on party etiquette.
Along with a series of laughing emojis, Stephen wrote, “This is why we train dogs.”
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Others were tickled by the room’s reaction to the accident.In a comment that received 22,500 likes, user ganyusmilk wrote:
“Even with the alarm going off, the silence was deafening,” Liam said. Jazmin <3 mentioned "how it got quiet".
Chloe Glancy summed it up in a comment: “So chaotic.”
Newsweek @chelsey3022 I have not independently verified the video. I have reached out to the original poster for comment.
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