Is it a Kim Kardachshund?
A New York dog has become an online sensation thanks to its luscious, humanesque lips — which have earned the pup comparisons to Kylie Jenner and other pouty public figures.
“It’s not a filter — it’s just a freak thing that happens,” Laura Boehmke, 50, told Kennedy News of her “freaky” pet’s supersized smackers.
The Long Island native purchased the German short-haired pointer, named Griffin, in 2020, but didn’t notice anything was awry until one day when the pooch puckered his lips at her.
“It literally does look like he’s blowing kisses to you. It’s very weird,” exclaimed the sales manager. “Every once in a while, I turn around and look at him and happen to catch it. He looked over at me and I thought I had to get my camera.”
Griffin has shared numerous videos of her pup’s pout to her TikTok page, where the canine has become somewhat of a celebrity.
One clip shows the dog’s kisser looking so plump it seems digitally imposed or the result of a filler procedure gone awry.
“Some people have said it looks like Ben Stiller in Zoolander, the Maybelline commercial, Kylie Jenner, lip filler. All kinds of stuff,” Boehmke described. “People have asked if it’s a filter, but it’s real. It happens every so often.”
Boehmke says she’s “never been close” enough to see how exactly Griffin fluffs his smackers. However, she believes his “lips get stuck on his teeth,” lending the illusion of a movie star pout.
“I know they’re getting caught on the side somehow but he puckers up with the way it happens” she described. “It’s not like that all the time. Sometimes its just the bottom lip, the top lip or both.”
Either way, like Dumbo’s oversized ears, Griffin’s life raft-evoking lips have been a lightning rod for online gawkers.
“That dog has lip filler, girl,” quipped one TikTok user, while another wrote: “Looks like he’s give Zoolander’s Blue Steel look.”
Meanwhile, one commenter wrote, “Cuz that’s no dog, that’s a human.”
Griffin isn’t the first critter to go viral for his humanesque kisser. In 2020, users were flabbergasted over a photo of a triggerfish, whose lips and teeth were so people-like that viewers wondered if it even existed.