--- ---  # Turns Out Dogs Get Extremely Confused by Magic Tricks by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 24, 2014 12:00 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 24, 2014 12:00 PM UTC Most people understand the general idea behind sleight of hand magic tricks, but dogs, it turns out, have a little more trouble grasping the concept. Finnish magician Jose Ahonen decided to completely bewilder a series of dogs by showing them treats and then promptly making those treats disappear into thin air. The video, which has racked up more than 3 million views, shows the canines’ varied responses to the slightly torturous trick. Finnish Musician Confuses Dogs With Magic Tricks: Viral Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/34887/viral-video-magician-confuses-dogs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/34887/viral-video-magician-confuses-dogs/"},"headline":"Turns Out Dogs Get Extremely Confused by Magic Tricks","datePublished":"2014-03-24T12:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:04.218Z","description":"Turns out they become very flustered when you make treats disappear","url":"https://time.com/34887/viral-video-magician-confuses-dogs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","viral","Videos","Finland","Viral video","magic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd32af8471b57cf55/698686d9e53aba990c4d1a36/screen-shot-2014-03-23-at-3-05-34-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd32af8471b57cf55/698686d9e53aba990c4d1a36/screen-shot-2014-03-23-at-3-05-34-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-03-23 at 3.05.34 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/34887/viral-video-magician-confuses-dogs/","name":"Turns Out Dogs Get Extremely Confused by Magic Tricks"}}]}] ```