Forget about apes. Pugs are the real threat to human domination.

With the release of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this weekend, it’s all too easy to get that wrong — so we turned to Pet Collective to set the record straight.

In this YouTube video, one man learns the hard way that the cuteness of a pug is just a facade. When he finds an abandoned pug in a box in the middle of the wilderness, he takes it in just like anyone with a working heart would. He’s fooled by those irresistible wrinkles and aloof facial expressions.

In no time, he finds himself in the midst of a war between pugs and humans. He’s taken “one of theirs” and the pugs go to great lengths to retrieve him.

Get ready to wrinkle up your face, pug-style, as you watch this agonizing war play out.

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