A woman concerned her dog may be sick decided to give him the ultimate test to make sure he wasn't "manipulating" her. Turns out, he was.

Maia McCann lives in New York with her pug, Smokey, who has developed a taste for the finer things in life.

McCann, who works in the media industry, told Newsweek : "Smokey is 11. I've raised him in the city and I think he's really grown fond of New York's café culture and seems to think that he should get a pastry on every walk!"

In a clip to her TikTok page @smokeyandmaia on March 28, McCann held Smokey up to the camera and declared she was about to play a game: "Is Smokey sick, or is he emotionally manipulating me so that I'll take him for cheesy bread?"

She explained the pug had refused to eat breakfast, but had recently been tricking her i

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