OMG WATER

September 30, 2014 10:48 AM

The Happiest Dog EVAR (SLHUFFPO)
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering (20 comments total)

YouTube link, sans blogspam
posted by rorgy at 10:56 AM on September 30, 2014 [15 favorites]

This is quite cute.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 11:13 AM on September 30, 2014

What a great smile!

And after watching this, I have a pretty big one stuck on my face too.
posted by bearwife at 11:19 AM on September 30, 2014 [3 favorites]

I don't know that it's the happiest dog EVAR because dog happiness correlates very closely, in my experience, to the speed of dog acceleration. The happier the dog, the faster it is wheeling around everywhere and/or colliding into things.

This dog seems merely content with life and the way the water falls upwards from the ground.
posted by mightygodking at 11:26 AM on September 30, 2014 [1 favorite]

I always hear the dog talking to her or his owner:

"MOMMY! MOMMY! WATER MOMMY! SO MUCH WATER! DO YOU SEE IT? I WILL GET IT FOR YOU, MOMMY."
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:59 AM on September 30, 2014 [5 favorites]

dog happiness correlates very closely, in my experience, to the speed of dog acceleration

Which is funny, because cat happiness correlates very closely to feline deceleration.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:10 PM on September 30, 2014 [1 favorite]

That's adorable. Some dogs can entertain themselves for hours in water.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 12:14 PM on September 30, 2014 [2 favorites]

We had a great yellow lab who loved nothing more than playing in the ocean for hours at a time - and then coming home and throwing up a gallon of salt water. Good times, good times.
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:23 PM on September 30, 2014 [7 favorites]

This dog seems merely content with life and the way the water falls upwards from the ground.

That is true happiness.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 12:35 PM on September 30, 2014 [1 favorite]

I wish SHLUFFPO was all dog HuffPo. Please invent that, thank you.
posted by Lardmitten at 12:55 PM on September 30, 2014

Dang it, a week ago I was walking by a circular ground-level fountain in which a similarly exuberant dog was running in circles and biting each of the six jets in turn, and for reasons I still cannot explain I didn't get out my phone and start recording.
posted by darksasami at 12:56 PM on September 30, 2014

for reasons I still cannot explain I didn't get out my phone and start recording.

There is no need to have a reason. The proper response upon stumbling across this scene for the first time is to spend the entire time you're viewing squee-ing and saying "who's a good dog?"

Speaking of who's a good dog...
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:14 PM on September 30, 2014 [10 favorites]

My parents had a toy poodle who thought she was going to swim from Maine to Europe. Just heading out to sea, she was. They had to borrow a boat to catch her. So many breeds were bred to solve the problem of having shot dinner and then dinner is in the water, the cold, cold water. Something has to go get it. Cats won't do the work.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 1:33 PM on September 30, 2014 [4 favorites]

It clearly likes the rhythmic setting of the water squirts best. That's when it goes and dances. So funny!
posted by Namlit at 2:15 PM on September 30, 2014

My mum's corgi gets pretty excited when it's time to water the patio pot plants.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 3:58 PM on September 30, 2014 [5 favorites]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU BUT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH WEIRD MOVING WATER WE ARE GOING TO BE BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!!

(dogs do not understand punctuation other than exclamation points, but they do love sprinklers, especially ones that cover that much space.)
posted by quin at 4:21 PM on September 30, 2014

Dogs do understand question marks as long as its used as part of an interrobang.

"Where's the puppy?!" gets my aussie to start dancing and barking, even if there's no puppy around for miles.

"Where's the stick?!?" gets my dog-in-law (owned by my sister-in-law) to hunt and hunt and hunt until she finds a stick. Once it led to her dragging a small tree towards me.

"Where's the duck?!" is enough to get both the aussie and the big black dog to go looking around the house for toys. The aussie usually finds one. The big black dog gets bored, gives up, and comes back, empty-mouthed, expecting a treat anyways.
posted by honestcoyote at 5:43 PM on September 30, 2014 [1 favorite]

Aw. This is so adorable, and also my hydrophobic dog's worst nightmare. She hates baths, hates water hoses, hates fountains, hates faucets, hates water bottles, hates rain, hates puddles, hates remotely damp spots on any walking surface and will carefully, delicately circumvent them. There is no disgust more steady and thoroughgoing than my girl's antipathy for the wet stuff in all its forms (except doggy water bowl, and even that's a little suspect). She ain't a seadog, my darling.
posted by taz at 9:39 AM on October 1, 2014

I saw that exact dog on my way to work a few weeks ago (presumably the same day) and tweeted about how happy it was! And now it's internet famous! Well done dog. It was indeed Very Happy.
posted by theseldomseenkid at 11:03 PM on October 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Teamwork.
posted by homunculus at 10:06 AM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]