This Video Of Vets Impersonating Dogs Is Hilariously Accurate

Visiting a veterinary clinic for the first time can be an anxiety-causing experience for a canine, and repeat visits can be worse — especially if it involves something scary like a nail trim. Dogs can behave in a number of different ways as a result of whatever emotion they're feeling while in a building that's nothing like home. Veterinarians and other staff members encounter the full range of these emotions every time they come to work. One team decided to have some fun with their experiences by impersonating the common reactions of specific breeds before a nail-trimming session in a hilarious video.

Veterinarians impersonating their patients.

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The video has been shared thousands of times and watched by millions. The viral trend has also moved across various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Needless to say, viewers loved it, and many confirmed the accuracy of the impressions. The veterinary team impersonates nearly a dozen breeds of various sizes, including a scared, drooling Saint Bernard and a prim and sophisticated standard poodle that happily accepts it. It's no wonder pet parents go to such great lengths to make nail trimming easier for their dogs!

Even if you've mastered every tip for making nail trims more bearable for your dog, many canines loathe the process and will wriggle and flail the moment you grab their paw and show them the clippers. The team demonstrates this with their spoof of a feisty Chihuahua fiercely biting the air while being carried to the table, and a boxer doing the ever-popular "wiggle butt." Australian shepherds can be wigglers, too, in their attempts to flee. One staff member highlights this escape artist breed's wily nature by staying low to the ground and attempting to dodge her technicians.

Other breeds become like acrobats and ballerinas on the table with their flipping and spinning maneuvers. A team member demonstrates this behavior while on her hands and knees as a Boston terrier spinning once in one direction before switching to the opposite direction. Another acts like a pitiful pug by falling to her side, kicking and yelping.

Comments on the hilarious viral video consider the pit bull impression, in which the employee slowly falls to her back while jerking her head back and forth and panting, "dead on" and "so accurate" compared to their own pups. Others confirmed that their own Siberian huskies were equally dramatic in response to the amusing whiny depiction. Boisterous beagles can be vocal, too, as another impersonator comically imitates by howling repeatedly — sharing her woes about the nail clippers. No matter the impression, this adorable video is sure to give you a laugh, and have you questioning just how often dogs need their nails trimmed, anyway.