Robot Vacuum Mistakes Napping Dog for Rug, Sends Hilarious Alert

When Aubrey Fetté received a message from her robot vacuum alerting her to a new rug in the bathroom, she and her husband were immediately confused. They hadn’t bought any new rug, and the alert felt oddly specific. Curious, her husband opened the vacuum’s app to review the cleaning map. What he saw made him burst out laughing.

Instead of a rug, the device had scanned and identified their dog Leo, a one-year-old Borzoi, as a carpet. Leo had been peacefully napping in the bathroom, stretched out in such a flat and still position that the vacuum’s sensors mistook him for a decorative floor piece. “It had a perfect rug-shaped outline,” Fetté told Newsweek. “And we knew instantly who it was.”

Leo spends nearly all day lounging, usually on his side, with his silky, shaggy fur spreading out like an elegant throw rug. In the TikTok video that’s now gone viral, Fetté humorously overlayed an image of Leo onto the app’s detection screen, revealing the uncanny resemblance. The robot even asked if it should initiate carpet cleaning, a suggestion her husband immediately declined. “Can you imagine it trying to clean his fur?” she joked.

Unfazed by the near encounter with cleaning chaos, Leo continued his nap undisturbed. His chill demeanor is nothing new—he’s the definition of unbothered. He doesn’t bark at strangers or fuss over his more vocal Chihuahua sister. Even when his brother, an Ibizan Hound named Argos, plopped himself directly on Leo’s head, the big dog didn’t even flinch.

TikTok users were equally amused and amazed by the incident, with over 3.4 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes flooding in. Comments praised the vacuum’s detailed outline and Leo’s status as an “unbothered king.” One viewer quipped, “It said, ‘Ma’am, this carpet is dirty.’”

Leo’s misidentification has charmed millions, proving that even household appliances can make hilarious mistakes—especially when your dog is this relaxed.

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This content was created with AI assistance and edited by the iHeartDogs team.