The Golden Retriever Egg Challenge Is The Best Viral Video Trend Yet

February 7, 2018

A 17-year-old high school student from Michigan kicked off a new viral trend when she tweeted a video of her Aunt's golden retriever, Sookie, carefully holding a raw egg in its mouth.

my aunt read online that a golden retriever’s mouth is so gentle they can hold an egg in their mouth without cracking it so she tried it on her dog and well pic.twitter.com/6SDyUI3v4j
— elizabeth gillies fan account (@Iaurdreyfuss) February 4, 2018

Haley's video has been viewed over 7 million times on Twitter alone, and just like that, the "Golden Retriever Egg Challenge" took off on social media. Dogs of all breeds are participating in the challenge... with mixed results.

Tried out the Golden Retriever egg challenge with Missy tonight. She was successful and remains a very good girl pic.twitter.com/inRC37V6SN
— Brendan Mulligan (@mullaby) February 6, 2018

Here’s my 8 month old Boston terrier Watson doing the golden retriever egg challenge 🥚😂 pic.twitter.com/kiCZdWiIk5
— Curtis Lepore (@curtislepore) February 6, 2018

I tried to test the theory of a golden retriever’s mouth being so gentle that they won’t even crack an egg but my golden doodle is scared of the egg.... pic.twitter.com/qKzn2eEzL3
— Allison Lockhart (@A_Lock1) February 5, 2018

My parents did the egg challenge with my Golden Retriever today and here were the results 😂 pic.twitter.com/eLcv4xZht9
— Conner Newton (@NewtonConner) February 4, 2018

The egg challenge : Zeke Edition
1. Immediately ran off with the egg
2. Protected the egg like his baby
3. Broke egg on carpet
4. Begged for more eggs
5. Currently pouting because I wouldn’t let him eat the eggs#goldenretriever #eggchallenge pic.twitter.com/rsaPJvzbMp
— Laura Arnold (@LB_Arnold) February 6, 2018

Golden retrievers everywhere are participating in the egg challenge. I don’t have a golden retriever so I thought I’d try with our Husky... #eggchallenge #Husky pic.twitter.com/DKecK7ST7k
— Callie Plake (@callieplake) February 7, 2018