A woman pet-sitting for her grandmother had to dress up just like her - to get the dog to follow commands.
Rebecca Sullivan, 24, and her sister Abby, 19, were dog-sitting for their grandparents but Tyson the dog wouldn't respond to commands.
They came up with a creative way of solving the problem - dressing Rebecca as their grandmother.
Technician Rebecca sported a full outfit straight from the wardrobe of Deborah Grant, 73 - right down to a wig and hat.
After putting on a voice and imitating Deborah's stride, Tyson was fooled - and followed their commands.
Rebecca and Abby, from Magee, Mississippi, US, even later filmed Deborah doing the same thing to show the similarities.
Rebecca Sullivan, 24, and her sister Abby, 19, were dog-sitting for their grandparents but Tyson the dog wouldn't respond to commands.
They came up with a creative way of solving the problem - dressing Rebecca as their grandmother.
Technician Rebecca sported a full outfit straight from the wardrobe of Deborah Grant, 73 - right down to a wig and hat.
After putting on a voice and imitating Deborah's stride, Tyson was fooled - and followed their commands.
Rebecca and Abby, from Magee, Mississippi, US, even later filmed Deborah doing the same thing to show the similarities.
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00:00Oh my God! Oh! That is the only way we can get him to go out because he's all sheep grandma.
00:11Tyson! Tyson, come on!
00:17It's the real grandma this time. And I wanted y'all to know a little bit about me and about my little dog Tyson.
00:25I saw where some of you might be interested in our story and I just kind of wanted to tell you a little bit about it.
00:32I know y'all saw where my granddaughter had to pretend to be me to get my little dog to go out and use the potty and even get him to eat.
00:42Y'all come on here with me and we'll talk about him a little bit.
00:49I can't believe that over 3 million people have viewed our video and over 3,000 of you had comments or asked questions that you would like to know more about me and my little dog Tyson.
01:02Well, unfortunately, my little dog Tyson is not with us anymore.
01:10We had to put him down in March. He had gotten real sick, was moaning and whining a lot like he was in pain.
01:19And he couldn't go outside anymore. He was having to use the bathroom inside and so we felt like it was better to have him put down.
01:30This is a picture when we took him to the vet. That's my husband in the truck.
01:36He was really sad because Tyson was kind of a therapy dog for him.
01:42He had cancer and he's an invalid and he has to stay at home a lot.
01:48Tyson was more or less a little therapy dog.
01:51We had gotten Tyson when he was 6 weeks old.
01:55The funny thing about Tyson and his name...
01:59Not Tracy, huh?
02:01His name is Tyson, not Tracy. A lot of you thought it was Tracy, but his name was Tyson.
02:07When he was 6 weeks old, we got him and he would stay around my husband's neck.
02:13He loved to lay behind his neck and he would nibble on my husband's ear.
02:20In fact, he would bite his ear sometimes.
02:23So we thought of the fighter Mike Tyson and have him bit the man's ear in the fighting ring.
02:28So we named him Tyson.
02:30Grandma, what do you have to say about your newfound fame?
02:34Well, it really surprised me because like I said, it was kind of funny.
02:39We thought it was funny at the time, but when we were on vacation, we were really worried about Tyson
02:45because we had left our granddaughter and our grandson and our grandkids in charge to take care of the dog at our house.
02:54We didn't know it, but he was really lonesome for us.
02:58He wouldn't eat or he wouldn't go outside for Rebecca.
03:02So she came up with the plan to dress like me.
03:06When she did, he followed her immediately and I suppose he ate too.
03:11When I found out that we had so many views, I just couldn't believe it.
03:15You didn't think little old you could get that many views, huh?
03:19Well, it was really you that got the views.
03:22But everybody wanted to meet you.
03:24Yeah, but I'm so glad.
03:26And I'm so glad that I have a smart granddaughter to stop that up.
03:31I was desperate.
03:33Yeah, she was trying to save him as best as she could.
03:38All right.
03:39Well, thank you for your time.
03:42And I'm glad to talk to y'all.
03:44All right.
03:45Will you be back for us?
03:47In the future, if you have any questions or if you want to...
03:50My grandson does funny videos all the time of me.
03:53And so y'all might have seen some of those on TikTok.
03:57I don't know.
03:58Do you know what TikTok is?
04:00Not really.
04:01I don't have it on my phone.
04:03You've been holding that picture there.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Yeah.
04:08Well, tell them all goodbye.
04:10Bye.
04:11Thank y'all.