A duck has gone viral for her apparent love for a Dunkin' order even rivaling that of New Englanders.
'Munchkin' is living up to her Dunkin' Donuts inspired name in videos shared by her owner, Krissy Ellis, of Milford, Pennsylvania, which show the suck clicking her beak and sipping a medium water from the popular Massachusetts based national chain, the Boston Globe reports.
The 'Dunkin Ducks' TikTok has amassed more than 2.7 million followers, while the duck's Instagram account has more than 205,000 followers and her YouTube page has more than 14,000 subscribers.
Ellis, 20, said she has been raising ducks since she was 5 and first got Munchkin at 16, noticing that the duck had been "obsessed" with the Dunkin' water.
“That’s how the name Munchkin came to be,” said Ellis, who insisted that she's not sponsored by the coffee and donut chain, via the Boston Globe.
Ellis began posting pictures of Munchkin on social media like many other pet owners, but once she posted the duck at her local Dunkin', she began to find Internet fame.
“I thought it was hysterical how crazy she went over this Dunkin’ ice water I ordered her. She had never gone crazy for water at home like that,” Ellis said. “So I started filming it.”
Munchkin's apparent preference for Dunkin' was on display when she appeared to turn her bill away from a tap water offering in a video shared this week.
Ellis said she's turned her and Munchkin's fame into a full-time career, fortunately seeing a spike in views after lost her job at a grocery store.
“I never thought I would be a duck’s caretaker for a living,” Ellis said. “But if it works, it works.”
“She got 40 million views in a week of her drinking Dunkin’, and that’s how I ended up with 2 million viewers on TikTok,” she added. “Now it’s kind of been my job since then to bring my duck to Dunkin’ and film it.”
Ellis said she has seven other ducks, including Munchkin's ducklings, Dunkin' and Donut, who are also featured in the videos.