An enormous dog was left utterly confused and unsure of herself when she found her bed taken over by the family cat.
Five-year-old Bernese mountain dog Olive lives in Australia with her owner Emma, 31, and 8-year-old cat sibling Chicken Nugget, or Chicky for short.
Like most cats, Chicky runs the roost, and when Olive’s bed looked like the perfect place for a nap, Chicky took it without a second thought.
“Chicky was in for a bit of a shock when we brought home this fluffy little puppy,” Emma told Newsweek. But the cat learned to show who was boss, and “the bed stealing started about two years ago”.
Emma caught her dog’s reaction to finding her bed was occupied and shared it to TikTok, where it has gone viral with close to 150,000 views since being shared to her account @olivethebmd on September 9.
The video starts with Emma following Olive into the sitting room, asking, “What’s wrong?”
And Olive then brings her to the scene of the crime: Chicky, curled up in a cozy ball, on a bed that does not belong to her.
Olive the Bernese Mountain Dog was heading for a lie down when she found her bed occupied. She ran to tell her owner, who caught the moment on video.
TikTok @olivethebmd
“Oh no, she’s stolen your bed,” Emma says sympathetically, as Olive looks at her pleadingly, and gives a downward stretch for good measure.
“She’s so mean,” Emma tells her dog, but Olive already seems to have given up on getting her bed back, and gets comfortable on the floor, as Emma captioned the video: “The cheek of her.”
Emma told Newsweek the cat “pretends not to like” Olive, but in reality “always tries to play with her,” and when Olive isn’t home, Chicky “wanders around the house meowing, looking for her.”
TikTok users loved the clip, with one joking: “Mum look, I need you to force an eviction.”
Another told Olive: “You snooze you lose!”
“Miss Olive has manners. My girl would just lay on her,” another laughed, with one saying Olive was telling her owner: “DO SOMETHING MOTHER!”
But, Emma assured Newsweek that “the two of them both give as good as they get.”
Chicky “will regularly antagonize Olive into chasing her, zoom off and hide, and when Olive gets close she jumps out of her hiding place and smacks Olive with her paws,” she said.
“I always laugh at the look on Chicky’s face when Olive gives her a wet sloppy kiss on her way past, fur now slicked up at odd angles. Never a dull moment in my house with these two!”
Emma, a nurse working in Melbourne, had always dreamed of having a Bernese mountain dog, and in 2019 “my dream became reality” when Olive joined her family.
Emma assured viewers that both animals give as good as they get. Olive regularly surprises Chicky with a sloppy kiss, while Chicky will “antagonize” the dog to chase her.
TikTok @olivethebmd
Standing up to 27.5 inches tall and weighing as much as 115 pounds, Bernese are among the largest dog breeds, but remain a popular choice as pets thanks to their affectionate nature and friendliness toward young children and other dogs, according to the American Kennel Club.
Admitting she is always “amazed” when Olive’s videos go viral, she said the dog “brings me so much joy every day, I’m always over the moon [that] she can brighten someone’s day like she does mine.”
This happens outside of TikTok too, Emma revealed, as when they would walk in a park near the hospital, Olive would sometimes run up to someone sitting on a bench and give them doggy greetings.
“It wasn’t until I’d get up closer I’d realize the person was crying, and they’d say to me: ‘You don’t know how much I needed that, my family member just passed away,'” Emma said, adding: “It happened too many times to be a coincidence.”
“She is so intuitive and such a clown, she genuinely just wants to make people laugh.”
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