A couple had the idea to incorporate their beloved pet dog into their dress-up costume—only for things to go slightly awry.
Katrina, who gave her first name only, had an iconic couple’s costume this past Halloween: Ash and Misty, from the original series of Pokémon.
But there was one thing missing: Ash Ketchum’s partner Pokémon, and the face of the entire franchise, Pikachu, a yellow electric mouse.
There was a solution, however, as Katrina had the bright idea of coloring their small white dog, Sully, with turmeric. The spice creates a natural, pet-safe dye—and it worked, as Sully was the star of the show with his yellow coat.
But as Halloween came and went, a new conundrum appeared: Sully’s coat wasn’t going back to normal.
“Kids were giving me the biggest reaction on walks,” Katrina told Newsweek. “I asked them if they’d ever seen a yellow dog before, and told them it was a special breed!”
In a video to her TikTok account, @maytheeleven, on November 1, Katrina shared the story with followers, receiving more than 2 million views in the process.
She explained: “Obviously my little white dog had to be Pikachu, so I dyed him yellow with tumeric. And I don’t know how long this is going to last.”
Panning the camera to show Sully, lying beside her and giving her a definite side-eye while almost glowing because he was so yellow, she laughed and asked: “Did I make a big mistake?”
Now, weeks later, Katrina revealed to Newsweek that the yellow color “lasted about a month.”
“He’s still yellow tinted and in some deeper fur crevices he’s still bright, but it’s mostly off by now!”
TikTok users were in stitches, as one wrote: “Tumeric? Yeah, you’re gonna have to wait for that to slowly shed out over time. congrats on your yellow dog!”
Another shared: “I once put turmeric in soup and it stained my grandmother’s dentures. She had to bleach them.”
Andseveral laughed ad Sully’s own reaction, one sharing a screengrab of his side-eye and writing: “Am I a joke to you?”
“Does he know he was supposed to be Pikachu because his expression is giving the Grinch,” another laughed, as one asked: “Why does he look offended?”
And one pointed out: “It’s super funny because yellow is one of the colors dogs can see. He knows what you did!”
Dogs’ eyesight is different to humans’: humans have three types of cones in our eyes, so we can identify three color combinations: red, blue and green.
Dogs, however, have only two types of cones, and are restricted to seeing combinations of yellow and blue. According to a vet-reviewed report from PetMD, yellow and blue are dominant colors in dogs’ vision, while other colors look like varying shades of blue, brown, or grayscale.
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