Some dogs are more nervous than others, and then there’s Sam, who is terrified of refrigerator magnets.
Bobbie Resnik, 28, adopted 3-year-old crossbreed, Sam, from a rescue in San Diego, and the pair are now inseparable.
“They found her in Mexico and when I adopted her she was always a little skittish of new things,” Resnik told Newsweek.
“She’s gotten a lot more confident, but sometimes she’ll find something new she doesn’t quite trust.”
And sometimes, that new thing might not be much of a threat, or even something alive.
A clip shared to Resnik’s TikTok @bobbieresnik showed the moment Sam noticed a magnet, which had been there for a long time, but which was suddenly, inexplicably, terrifying to the pup.
Screenshots of Sam and her nemesis. Bobbie Resnik had no idea what was striking such terror in her dog, Sam, until she noticed the refrigerator magnet.
TikTok @bobbieresnik
In the video, Sam barks nervously and runs to her owner, clearly trying to tell her something. But when the Resnik goes to check, there’s nothing there.
Until, that is, Sam walks up to the refrigerator, looks at the magnet of the Statue of Liberty—and runs away in terror.
Resnik laughs, telling Sam “it’s literally just a magnet,” and tosses it to the dog, who appears extremely skittish, barking, touching it and running away.
When the magnet goes back on the refrigerator, Sam gets slightly braver, and barks furiously at it.
In a caption, Resnik joked: “I guess it took her over a year to notice it. That or she has beef with Ms. Liberty”
The video has proved a huge hit on TikTok, with over 1.6 million views and 300,000 likes, with one person commenting: “The double takes killed me.”
“The way he came to get you to tell you,” another laughed, another pointing out: “I love that you assumed he was seeing something you can’t see.”
Others debated what could have caused the sudden fear, one suggesting: “I wonder if she backed into it and it poked her,” and another betting: “She probably watched it slide down the fridge and thinks it’s alive now.”
Resnik told Newsweek: “She doesn’t bark at it all the time anymore, but sometimes I catch her staring to make sure it doesn’t move.”
She added that she is “stoked to see Sam getting attention for how cute she is”.
Resnik adopted Sam from her local rescue, and says she sometimes gets nervous around new things. Her sudden “beef” with the magnet has made her a star of TikTok.
TikTok @bobbieresnik
“Rescuing animals is very important to me, so it’s interesting to see their little quirks they may have picked up somewhere else,” Resnik said.
Around 6.3 million animals enter shelters across the United States each year, including 3.1 million dogs, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Of these, around 2 million dogs are adopted each year, and 710,000 strays are returned to their owners.
As for the many comments on Sam’s video wondering what breed the unusual-looking dog is, Resnik revealed she is doing a dog DNA test to find out her mix.
And while the rescue “suspected” she is a golden shepherd—a mix between a German shepherd and a golden retriever, a breed not recognized by the American Kennel Club—Resnik added: “We will see.”
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