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After growing suspicious of someone drinking her tea every time she left the room, a British dog owner set a trap to find the culprit, and internet users can’t cope with what she managed to film. In a viral TikTok video shared on Wednesday under the username @the_pooleys, the poster, 28-year-old Maggie Adams, shares the footage recorded from her hidden camera, leaving internet users in stitches. "I had a suspicion that my dog was drinking my tea when I left the room … So I set a trap to find out …" she writes in the clip. The footage shows one of her pups, Mango, quietly sitting on the couch while her owner is in the room, pretending to be a good girl. However, as soon as her owner leaves, she immediately sprints toward the table to have a taste of her owner’s milk tea. "Suspicions confirmed," the caption says, as the pup briefly stops a couple of times to check if her owner is on her way back before getting back to the mug to enjoy her sneaky treat. Adams told Newsweek that Mango is a mixed-breed stray dog that she and her partner, Jordan Pooley, rescued from Greece a few years back. Adams said: "She was found starving on the streets by Gouves Animal Shelter. I volunteered at the shelter in 2018, with no plans to adopt a dog, but absolutely fell in love with her the moment I saw her, so she came home with me! She’s around 11 years old now but is still the cheekiest little girl and loves getting up to mischief." Mango has a little sister, a dachshund named Rascal, who is her best friend, and, despite her traumatic past of abuse as a stray, Mango is still the "sweetest soul with the funniest personality." After becoming suspicious of Mango drinking her tea, the poster decided to leave a lukewarm cup of tea with no sugar on the table, right in front of her pet-cam, to confirm her suspicion, which did indeed prove her right. "It turns out she has been the tea thief for all of these years! The video blew up and so many owners shared the same experience … So I think a lot of dogs have the British trait of being tea lovers; there’s a business idea there for someone I think," Adams added. The video quickly went viral on social media and has so far received over 264,000 views and more than 8,800 likes on the platform. One user, Molly Burgess, commented: "She’s a British queen now." Martin Jones posted: "You should have made [her] a cup of tea." Jessica Patton added: "Could be worse—my cat doesn’t bother to hide it, he just body slams past me and drinks as much as he can before I pick him up and out of the way while making direct eye contact with me the whole time."
