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By Jack Beresford
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A Maltese puppy could make neither head nor tail of his owner's rug after being introduced in an adorable moment captured on camera.
Brian Fossati from Denver, Colorado, took to Reddit to share the heartwarming footage of Milo seeing a shag rug for the first time. "Does not compute," he quips in the caption accompanying the clip.
Fossati told Newsweek: "When we first got Milo we decided to roll the rug up and put it away until after he was sufficiently pee pad trained. The video is actually after he had been with us for a couple weeks and we felt he was trained enough to know not to pee on it. So it was the first time he was seeing the rug, and it was the biggest change he had experienced while living at our house."
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In the video, Milo can be seen struggling to know what to make of the new floor covering. It initially appears as if he's happy to stroll on it, but then he stops, turns back, then around again and almost does a double take as if in disbelief at the appearance of the rug.
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At one point he appears tempted to roll on the shag, but stops himself from doing so. He then seemingly attempts to wrestle with the rug, as if it were a living thing, before turning his attention elsewhere.
Milo would be forgiven for feeling a little bit anxious about the rug. Anxiety of one kind or another is very common among canines. A 2020 study published in Scientific Reports examining the anxiety traits of 13,700 dogs found that 72.5 percent exhibited at least one anxiety-related behavior.
Fossati has his own theory as to what Milo made of the shag rug. "I think he was trying to process what exactly the rug was as he had never seen it before, he may have also been trying to figure out if it was the same thing as him," he said.
The video was actually filmed around three years ago, when Milo first became a member of the Fossati family. "My wife really wanted to get a Maltese, so we adopted him through the American Kennel Club," he said. "Some of his favorite things include his puzzles, learning tricks, chewing on bully sticks and snuggling."
At the time of writing, the video of Milo's reaction to the rug had been upvoted over 8,000 times—something that has left Fossati baffled.
"I actually have a ton of footage of him and his various antics, among all the stuff I have I really didn't expect this video to be the one that blows up," he said.
Three years may have passed, but the shag rug, much like Milo, remains a much-loved part of the family. Fossati said: "Fun fact: he has never had an accident on it and we still have the rug in our house today."
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