Since 2020, Pinto Bean’s parents have been creating TikTok videos, and stage combat is one of their favorite things to feature in them. Because of this, Pinto Bean has spent the most of her life witnessing them engage in pretend combat with makeshift swords. One day, however, she decided she wanted to join in.
The couple was out in a field filming a new video when Pinto Bean noticed a very large stick laying nearby, and she quickly seized the opportunity.
“She picked up the stick and started chasing me down while waving the stick around like it was her own sword,” Anna Kimbro, Pinto Bean’s mom, told The Dodo. “I pretended to ‘block’ her blows with my sword, and she was having a blast trying to dodge and attack. Finally, I let her ‘slay’ me and dramatically fell to the ground after she tapped me with her stick.”
As Kimbro fell, she lost her sword, and Pinto Bean swiftly made the decision to take it as her own.
Immediately after dropping her stick, Pinto picked up the sword and rushed off like she had just robbed my dead corpse, according to Kimbro. She had picked up all of that from observing us, so we began handing her my stolen blade to wield as her own, and the rest is history.
Pinto Bean is the only owner of the foam prop because she defeated her opponent with that sword. She also enjoys using a little imitation dagger. She recognizes when it’s time to battle whenever she sees one of those.
Pinto Bean has been participating with her parents in any type of stage battle since the very beginning, and she has always loved it.
Pinto Bean is now a professional swordfighter. Playing with her swords is part of her routine, and she definitely seems to assume this is something all dogs do with their humans.
“We play with her sword usually about once or twice a week,” Kimbro said. “We don’t always film it for TikTok or Instagram, but she loves getting exercise that way, so we try to do it pretty often. Even if we don’t get her sword out, she’ll grab a stick and try to ‘fight’ with it almost every day.
She’s even tried to ‘fight’ my parents’ dog, Luna, (her best friend) with a stick a couple of times, and she seemed pretty surprised that Luna was running from her like, ‘Ahhh, what are you doing?’ and didn’t grab a stick to fight back.”
It’s definitely unusual for a dog’s favorite hobby to be stage combat, but for Pinto Bean, it just works.
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