Those who enjoy Brianna Madia’s books are accustomed to reading about how noble and well-behaved her four dogs are. They provided her with emotional support while she lived alone in a Utah desert.
That is, until, a social media video captured the one of the four well-known canines digging through an old garbage bin in Madia’s home, in what appeared to be a diligent search for bits of leftover food.
The viral video, which has been viewed more than 355,000 times since it was shared to Instagram on March 3, captured Madia’s oldest pet Bucket sifting through the kitchen bin for scraps. To Madia’s surprise, her other three dogs were filmed sitting out the kitchen heist by doing little other than giving their sibling Bucket some disappointed side-eyes, and keeping watch for the return of their owner.
“My fiancé recently put these cameras in the house,” Madia, a New York Times bestselling author, told Newsweek.
“Now, I have four dogs so the occasional mess or garbage endeavor isn’t that shocking, but what we never knew is that Bucket was always the one and only perpetrator!”
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“We thought it was so funny that the other dogs’ body language seemed to be saying, ‘We want nothing to do with this!’ Haha! But there is a reason why we call Bucket ‘the queen.’ She’s 13 years old and has a long history of always getting what she wants,” she added.
Madia’s beloved pets featured heavily in her second book, Never Leave the Dogs Behind, which followed her debut memoir Nowhere for Very Long.
In her second book, Madia reflects on the difficulties of traveling, nomadic living and van life, which she has long documented on her Instagram account @briannamadia where she has over 300,000 followers.
What Do the Comments Say?
“Enjoy this highly intelligent, extremely poor behavior from Bucket who, when asked for comment about the situation, told me to go f*** myself,” Madia had captioned the Instagram post.
Instagrammers have laughed along with Madia in the comments section of the post.
“That’s classic,” one user wrote.
Another user added: “This is awesome.”
“The other dog said, ‘I’m not involved’,” a third user joked.
A different user commented: “Just fills my heart with joy.”
Madia’s other three dogs are called Dagwood, Birdie and Banjo.
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