An advert for a dog food company has gone viral on social media after one of its stars was caught peeing mid-video. Barney, a four-month-old labrador puppy was staring in an advert for Years.com when he was caught short.
But despite being filmed and surrounded by humans, no one spotted Barney's little accident and the video was shared across Years' social media accounts. The video proved a hit with dog lovers online but it was only when customers started reacting to the three-minute video with laughing emojis that anyone spotted the mistake.
Tayla, an executive assistant at Years.com, said: “The video was posted a week before we realised and it was a complete and utter shock when I saw he’d peed during the take and no one spotted it. The marketing team wouldn’t have posted it if they’d noticed, they’d have just shot it again. But everyone here has seen the funny side.
“Barney is a real softie, we call him our little weener, he’s always at my feet, if I get up so does he. He’s a bit silly and a plonker, if you throw a ball in one direction he will run in the opposite whilst looking up.
“He loves swimming, he’s a fabulous dog around our four-year-old Molly who absolutely adores him. They’re best friends. He’s also fantastic with people and loves to play with and annoy other dogs.
“He’s got no idea that a video of him peeing has been seen by two million people but I doubt he’d be embarrassed even if he did understand. He’s fully toilet trained now thankfully so he’s safe to appear on camera again although I’ve not been bringing him to work so much recently as I’m super busy and he’s a cute distraction.”
After realising the error the Years team made a shorter nine-second video to highlight the mistake. It has so far reached more than 2.2 million people on Tiktok. You can view the video below.
Emily Selberis, the video's co-star said: “The video got to 1m views within 24 hours and we thought it was just down to how cute Barney is. It was a week later when another team member spotted the real reason after reading some of the comments on the video.
“So it was a very delayed reaction but we were equally humoured and horrified that the stale pee had been marinating for five days.”
