Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks.
A TikTokker claimed to have taught her pooches to play Uno — showing off their apparent skills in a new video that’s already viewed nearly 40 million times.
In the clip, Haley Deecken plays the classic card game with her dogs, 10-year-old Dunkin, a Labrador retriever/pit bull mix and 2-year-old Splash, German shepherd/Australian shepherd/Labrador/husky mix, who appear to follow along with no problem.
Deecken, known on TikTok as @haleyandthepets, said she used short training sessions — utilizing their limited color vision to teach them how to play.
“I started with just two colors — blue and yellow — because those are the colors they can see best,” the New Yorker told People.
“I’d place most cards as the correct color, like four blue cards around a blue one in the middle, then one yellow to set them up for success. Every time they picked the blue card, they got a reward.”
As the training went on, Deecken introduced more challenging colors to expand their skills — while limiting the sessions to about 15 minutes to make sure the dogs are focused and stay excited about the game.
Deecken said it took seven or eight sessions before they understood.
“Dogs’ attention spans can wear down if you go too long, but short, frequent sessions keep them wanting to learn more,” she explained.
“It’s really about having fun and connecting with them,” she added. “If they’re enjoying it and learning something new, that’s a win for all of us.”
This isn’t the first time the pups have portrayed a penchant for cleverness — both have appeared in commercials, TV shows and movies.
Deecken shared that she hopes to eventually teach Dunkin and Splash pattern recognition so they can recognize and match the numbers on the cards, upping their Uno game to the next level.
This isn’t the first time Dunkin has gone viral, either.
Earlier this year, Deecken attempted to do a TikTok trend dancing to Naughty Boy’s “La La La” when the dog snatched a knife off the counter — and started to run around the kitchen with it.
Deecken can be seen running away from the dog with the blade in his mouth and she compared the incident to a “low-budget live-action ‘Scooby-Doo’ remake.”
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