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Puppy reacts to chicken pot pie in viral YouTube Shorts

The Shorts clip from the ZeusandRoot channel sits at number eleven on YouTube's U.S. Pets and Animals chart with more than six million views; BBN hasn't seen it.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger on BBN This Morning
Published 6:17 AM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026

Photo: Pot pie — Photo: avlxyz at https://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 2.0

At a glance

First reported by YouTube (ZeusandRoot): “Puppy reacts to chicken pot pie in viral YouTube Shorts”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 6:17 AM ET on BBN This Morning, by Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger.

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YouTube (ZeusandRoot)Puppy reacts to chicken pot pie in viral YouTube Shorts

What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYouTube's Pets and Animals chart has a Shorts video from ZeusandRoot called Root's chicken pot pie, with a puppy reacting to the pie, and it's at nearly four point eight million views.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI haven't seen it. What happens in it?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWe haven't aired it either, so all we have is the title and the hashtags.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBut the hashtags say puppy, cute, funny, food and cutepie, so I'm reading the whole game off that.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou're breaking down a video you've never seen.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe hashtag section is where the real coaching happens. Nine of them, so that puppy has a full staff and a defensive coordinator.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd the turning point?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe turning point is the word pie. And the score is a ten out of ten.