Why won’t this guy’s dog eat Dairy Queen chicken tenders?

Animals are said to have a “sixth sense,” which gives them a perception that humans can’t match. Security camera footage taken during earthquakes shows pets getting excited seconds before the shaking begins.

It turns out that their keen perceptions extend to food, too. Recently, a video of a bear flatly refusing to eat at McDonald’s went viral. The video caused quite a stir online. People found it odd that an animal known for rummaging through trash cans for food would turn up its nose at Mickey D’s. It led people to wonder how bad fast food is for us if notoriously voracious eaters won’t even take a bite.

Today, a Dairy Queen customer has doubts about the food chain’s chicken after his dog wouldn’t eat it.

No appetite for the DQ

Igor (@igor71967) posted the video on TikTok where the overlay text reads: “Warning! Dairy Queen Chicken.”

At the beginning of the clip, Igor shows a chicken fillet to the camera.

He says, “This, my friends, is an authentic piece of Dairy Queen chicken. OK? And it’s an animal.” He approaches his dog, who is lying in a garage.

Igor then says, “Now I’m going to give this to him.” He holds the piece in front of the dog’s face. The dog sniffs the chicken several times, but doesn’t try to eat it. Then Igor tosses the nugget between the dog’s paws.

“I’m going to put him down. Now watch him,” the TikToker adds, walking away from the animal.

His dog looks at him and starts wagging his tail.

“You can eat it, go ahead, eat it,” he assures the animal as he backs away. “We’ll leave it for a while. We’ll take a walk.”

After a short walk in his garden, he then returns to the dog.

@igor71967 ♬ original sound – Igor

The chicken nugget remains intact

“And we’re going to go back and look,” he said.

The piece of chicken is still between his dog’s paws. “He still won’t eat it. Listen, let’s do this. Let’s double the stakes,” Igor says, tossing another piece of chicken at his dog’s feet.

The puppy sniffs the new morsel but doesn’t make any move to try to eat it. “If the dog doesn’t eat it. You shouldn’t either,” he says at the end of the clip.

This isn’t the first time someone has posted a dog’s less-than-favorable reaction to being offered junk food. In this video, a man filmed himself trying to feed his dog a McDonald’s McNugget. When he does, she turns her face away, clearly not interested in taking a bite.

Viewers share their thoughts

One commenter shared concerns about the bread. “Someone else noted that you can leave store-bought bread out for literally a month and it won’t go moldy,” he wrote.

“It’s not food anymore. They know it,” someone else replied. Igor responded to this, saying he thought there was a separate period of restriction for real food in the United States. “They stopped that in the late ’70s,” he said.

Someone else said they shared Igor’s view on what foods their dog refuses: “Any meat my dog ​​refuses to eat, I don’t eat anymore.”

Another said the same concept extended to other products. “Hummingbirds will no longer consume Walmart Great Value sugar,” he said. “I stopped buying all Great Value products.”

Others have reported noticing a difference in how herbivorous animals respond to store-bought fruits and vegetables.

“Our bunny also doesn’t eat fast food salads and loves salads,” one wrote.

Another replied: “My dog ​​refuses to eat fresh fruits and vegetables from the store, but he will eat home grown fruits and vegetables.”

The Daily Dot reached out to Dairy Queen via email and Igor via TikTok comment.

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