Hangry hound! Train passenger snaps hilarious encounter with peckish dog who tries – in vain – to swipe their prawn cocktail crisps

A dog owner has captured all the emotions of a hungry dog denied their favourite snack during a train journey.

Four images, which have gone viral on social media, perfectly capture the frustration of the moment you spot a snack – in this instance, a packet of prawn cocktail-flavoured crisps – before it slowly dawns it’s not yours for the taking. 

In images shared by @hugoandursula on Instagram – and re-shared by Walkers crisps ambassador Gary Lineker – a beautiful golden retriever is seen staring through the gap between two seats at the passenger behind. 

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A longing look: The golden retriever makes eye contact with the owner of the packet of Walkers crisps

With the dog’s eyes firmly on the prize, the pooch stuffs their nose through the gap in the seats

The next frame sees the eager dog launch forward, stuffing its nose through the gap in pursuit of the snacks seated on the tray behind. 

Upping the ante in the third shot, the retriever then unleashes its tongue, clearly showing their desperation to reach said snacks – and being just a few inches from claiming them. 

So close, yet so far: The frustrated pooch – just inches from the snack of their desire, lolls out their tongue in a bid to reach them

Not funny any more: The hangry dog bears their teeth at the rail passenger refusing to give up their crisps

Finally, left frustratingly unsated, the dog shows the passenger not giving up the potato crisps a set of gnarling teeth – with some posting memes comparing the look to Jack Nicholson’s iconic face through the door moment in cult 1980 horror film The Shining.

Legions of dog lovers left commented on the photo montage, with many thoroughly invested in the outcome.

@awpchristie bolded up their tweet, writing: ‘I NEED TO KNOW THE ENDING’ while @Elektrickery wrote: ‘Did it have a happy ending? For the dog, obvs.’ 

@ChasingtheMind was one of many who said the retriever deserved the treat, penning: ‘Give. Him. All. The. Crisps.’

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The laughter was so off-kilter it made you wonder if Joe Biden had taken leave of his senses during his mini-press conference Sunday. 

Americans are trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Our troops at Kabul airport are faced with an uncontrollable surge of people so desperate to escape they are dying in the crush. America has suffered its worst self-inflicted humiliation and the free world is less safe — all because of his dumb decisions. 

And he laughs? A cold, inappropriate laugh, muscle memory deployed as a political weapon by a man operating on empty. 

The first bout of hilarity came in response to a question from CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe, one of four questions he allowed from a pre-approved list of reporters in the Roosevelt Room, seven days after the fall of Kabul. 

Did he trust the Taliban? A swaggering, streetwise smile swept his face. I’m no chump, it said, after he and his congenitally naive national security team were taken for chumps by those Stone Age Islamists. 

His derisive chuckles began when O’Keefe apologetically asked about a new CBS/YouGov poll which shows a majority of Americans disapprove of the way he has handled the Afghanistan exit, and “forgive me, I’m the messenger, no longer consider you to be competent, focused, or effective at the job.” 

“I haven’t seen that poll,” said Biden, shaking his head with a half smirk. 

“It’s out there,” said O’Keefe. “From CBS this morning.” 

This led Biden to burst out laughing. What was funny? If the mirth was a face-saving performance, it was appallingly ill-judged. 

He looked down at the cue cards he cannot survive without and began reciting: “Look, I had a basic decision to make.” He went on to reel off a raft of widely accepted reasons for ending the war. But this is not in dispute, as he well knows every time he slyly answers the question no one has asked. 

The problem is the incompetence of the withdrawal, the premature closure of Bagram Air Base, placing our troops in an impossible position, needlessly endangering lives of American citizens and Afghan allies, and leaving billions of dollars of weaponry in the hands of our enemies. 

“The evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started,” he said. “It would have been true if we had started a month ago, or a month from now.” 

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In April, he promised the withdrawal would be done “responsibly, deliberately, and safely.” 

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Biden was full of self-congratulatory bluster and teleprompter statistics of how many people have been evacuated — 28,000, by our military as well as our NATO allies and civilian charters. 

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Belatedly, he has realized he can’t hide away on vacation and hope that Americans won’t notice events half a world away. 

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He kept fantasizing at the podium Sunday, as if saying something grotesquely false will make it come true. 

“History is going to record this was the logical, rational, right decision to make.” 

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