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A woman has gone viral for sharing the moment a strange dog approached her—and demanded she throw a ball.
Violet, who posts to TikTok under the username @slyable, recently arrived at her rural home to find a surprise visitor waiting for her. In a clip shared to her account in August, she showed the dog sticking her head into her car, and as Violet playfully quizzed the dog on who she was and what she was doing there, she realized the pup had dropped a tennis ball.
Naturally, Violet gave into the black-and-white dog's demands, and tossed the ball, with the pup chasing after it. The video then changed to show the pair outside, with Violet recording herself and the unusual dog, with differently colored eyes, who was still waiting at her feet with the ball.
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Violet wrote across the video: "I got home from yoga and literally opened my car door to a random dog I've never seen before. And this is how she acted."
TikTok users went wild for the sweet clip, which has almost 250,000 likes, as one commenter joked: "She came with accessories."
Another noted her "heterochromia eyes," referring to the dog's one brown eye and one bright blue eye, as another joked: "The way the ball matches your pants, it was meant to be."
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Many pleaded with Violet to take in the dog as her own, and some worried she was lost or a stray, with others insisting "she's yours now."
But in a video update, Violet explained she thinks the dog may belong to her neighbor as she saw her on their property with a child. She added that the dog was groomed and appeared well cared for.
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"She just wanted to play ball," she said, but assured commenters that she would continue to play with her and would "keep an eye out" to make sure the dog really did have a home with her neighbors.
Stray dogs and cats are found around the world. In the United States, around 6.3 million animals enter shelters each year, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
About 4.1 million animals, including 2 million dogs, are adopted from shelters each year, and around 810,000 animals who enter shelters as lost strays are eventually returned to their owners.
The number of animals being taken in each year has reduced dramatically since 2011, when around 7.2 million entered shelters, the ASPCA says.
Newsweek has contacted @slyable on TikTok for comment on this story.
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