Her daughter revealed on Twitter what the brown dog really was.
"My mother was giggling at this and told me to "take a look at that adorable dachshund, he's sleeping", she was looking at a purse," she wrote on Twitter along with photos of the purse/dog. In 48 hours, the post was retweeted over 38,000 times and liked by over 1.17 lakh people.
my mother was giggling at this and told me to "take a look at that adorable dachshund, he's sleeping", she was looking at a purse: pic.twitter.com/ZyNKaLMxKI
— Hannah Murphy (@dumb_hannah) July 30, 2017
And turns out it wasn't the first time a person confused an inanimate object for a pupper as people totally related to the confusion. And it does kinda look like a dachshund.
Like when this person mistook a sack for someone's dog
She's not aloneI just had the exact same experience at an airport bar in Houston the other day lol pic.twitter.com/F3YRYaCFbb
— Brandon (@TheBrandonLeigh) July 30, 2017
And this mix-upI did this once, smiling hard at a giant bag of yard waste because I thought it was a sweet slumpy old Golden Retriever.
— Kate Tuttle (@katekilla) July 30, 2017
Bad eyesight doesn't helpMakes me think about some tasty chicken tenders. pic.twitter.com/embNGWaV3D
— JJ (@ttv_productions) July 30, 2017
Bah this happened to me a few dyas ago also pic.twitter.com/I5plVCZnJp
— RumorhasIT (@RumorHasITtunes) July 31, 2017
And other animals too have been victims of the this farrago
During a fair while I had my rabbit on leash I heard a woman tell her friends that I had a very weird dog. pic.twitter.com/EwVCjftII4
— Silly (@Sivi_Rabbynx) July 31, 2017
I routinely talk to black skirt/pants/sweater crumpled on the floor because I think it's @JohnnyPurrs pic.twitter.com/DK7Zd9XDkX
— bitch du jour (@bitchdujour) July 30, 2017