Guilty Puppy Hilariously Tries To Play Innocent After Chewing Up Mom's Hair Clip
After your dog has spent enough time with you, it knows when you're happy, sad, and angry. It can recognize joy and anger in your tone and body language — and it sometimes knows when it did something it shouldn't have, like chew one of your belongings to shreds. A TikToker named Julia knows this all too well. Her dog, Tilly, chewed up her hair clip while she was out of town, so she recorded herself confronting the pup and shared it on TikTok in October 2025.
@juliabb17465 She knows she's bad.
"She chewed up my hair clip," Tilly's mom says in the video. "And she doesn't know that I found it yet." Julia then proceeds to happily greet Tilly, as if nothing is wrong. Tilly matches her energy, her wagging tail signaling her excitement and going 100 miles an hour. Julia then shows Tilly what's left of the clip and instantly changes her tone from happy to stern. "Hey, what is this?!" Tilly responds by looking away, as if avoiding eye contact will make the clip vanish into thin air.
The video has racked up more than 821,000 likes and 2,000 comments. Viewers found the confrontation humorous, with many poking fun at Tilly's reaction. "Idk girl, I ain't never seen a hair clip like that before," one person commented. "Hairclip? What hairclip?" another person said. Not only did Tilly chew up the clip, she tried to hide it in Julia's blanket. While there's some debate on whether dogs can feel guilt, Tilly definitely knows her mom isn't happy about the hairclip.
A lesser-known reason for destructive chewing
Anyone who's ever owned a puppy or been around one long enough knows that these little furballs love to chew on things, sometimes to smithereens. Chewing is a completely normal behavior in dogs of all ages. While puppies tend to chew out of boredom, curiosity, or teething discomfort, there are also subtler, commonly overlooked reasons behind more destructive chewing. One of the most frequent culprits is separation anxiety.
This is likely what Tilly experienced; in a more recent TikTok clip, Julia says Tilly "doesn't chew stuff up very much." In addition to the hair clip, she chewed up some coasters. Julia was out of town for both incidents. Dogs that resort to destructive chewing when they're home alone typically choose this response as a means of relieving their stress. In fact, destructive behavior is one of the telltale signs that a dog has separation anxiety.
With the coaster episode, which happened in July, Tilly was being looked after by a live-in pet sitter, which suggests the damage probably happened when the sitter was away or in another room. It's unclear whether Tilly had the same pet-sitting arrangement during the hair clip incident or if someone did drop-in visits only. Either way, she was left alone long enough to take out her anxious energy on the hair clip while awaiting Julia's return. Let's just hope this precious pup's bad habits will fade as she ages, for the sake of all the hair clips and coasters in her home.