I hope we'll all be as happy as this dog when the election is over.
October 29, 2016 8:52 AM   Subscribe

 
"How the fuck am I supposed to carry that!?!?"
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 9:03 AM on October 29, 2016 [5 favorites]


I have watched this like five times in the last day
posted by Countess Elena at 9:04 AM on October 29, 2016 [17 favorites]


Me too.

Dogs have many, many virtues - but I never quite thought that they have a sense of humor.
This dog looks for all the world like he actually gets the joke.
posted by AsYouKnow Bob at 9:06 AM on October 29, 2016 [54 favorites]


I love how she just drops the original toy unthinkingly. I also love the slow approach where you can see her brain-cogs turning. And I also also love her friend doggie who is clearly pleased that everyone's happy and on the floor but doesn't entirely get what is so amazing. I love the whole thing!!!
posted by Mizu at 9:13 AM on October 29, 2016 [63 favorites]


i will never love anyone or anything as much as i love this pupper that i have never met
posted by poffin boffin at 9:27 AM on October 29, 2016 [17 favorites]


I love the slowwww rise up from her seat. This is like the golden retriever equivalent of the scene in Jurassic Park when Laura Dern sees a brontosaurus for the first time.
posted by windbox at 9:34 AM on October 29, 2016 [140 favorites]


one huge penny of wow dropping in slow motion...priceless!
posted by Namlit at 9:58 AM on October 29, 2016


Golden Retrievers are such complete silly sweethearts.
(somewhat biased, grew up with one who was just utterly and completely sweethearted and also silly)

note: all dogs are THE BEST DOG.
posted by fraula at 10:13 AM on October 29, 2016 [14 favorites]


they're good dogs Brent
posted by entropicamericana at 10:17 AM on October 29, 2016 [55 favorites]


windbox wins the thread, that is the exact emotion on display.
posted by J.R. Hartley at 10:52 AM on October 29, 2016


I tweeted the following when I first saw this video:

DOG: Is this real? Are you real? OMG YOU ARE REAL JOY JOY JOY SNUGGLE JOY SNUGGLE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!

OTHER DOG: You are so weird.
posted by wintermute2_0 at 11:02 AM on October 29, 2016 [9 favorites]


I like the part where the dog.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 11:43 AM on October 29, 2016 [87 favorites]


Not only her favorite toy, but her favorite toy + smells like her Human. We had a wonderful shelter dog who looked a lot like Jolene, our beloved Jake, who has been gone for some time. Dogs are the *best*.
posted by theora55 at 12:51 PM on October 29, 2016 [4 favorites]


As of right now 557 people have given this video a thumbs down on YouTube.

I'm a pretty cynical person when it comes to animals. I don't like when people anthropomorphize them or attribute emotions to them that I feel they don't possess. But even I am not so goddamn terrible to think this is anything less than the greatest damn doggie video ever.

Wookit da puppy go for the great big Gumby!
posted by bondcliff at 12:53 PM on October 29, 2016 [6 favorites]


fine, i'll get a dog
posted by palomar at 12:57 PM on October 29, 2016 [34 favorites]


TODO:

* seize our rental house from the landlord. (note: step one may require revolution)

* get dog
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 1:30 PM on October 29, 2016 [5 favorites]


I think he's still lying on the floor, because that dog clearly stepped on his crotch at least 5 or 6 times.
posted by schmod at 2:25 PM on October 29, 2016


I watched this at least twenty times yesterday and plan to maintain that regimen at least through Nov. 8th.
posted by karayel at 2:51 PM on October 29, 2016 [1 favorite]


this is the best thing ever. Ever-ever, not just today-ever.
posted by Farce_First at 3:02 PM on October 29, 2016 [3 favorites]


>I think he's still lying on the floor, because that dog clearly stepped on his crotch at least 5 or 6 times.

Can confirm. Source: got punched in the crotch by a clumsy 65lb greyhound earlier today.
posted by A Robot Ninja at 3:06 PM on October 29, 2016 [4 favorites]


Oh my heart! This was the most wonderful thing.
posted by darksong at 3:36 PM on October 29, 2016 [1 favorite]


Happy dogs are nature's antidepressants.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 3:45 PM on October 29, 2016 [5 favorites]


Also, Mrs. Example and I have always said that if we ever get a dog, it'd be a golden retriever like this or a yellow lab, because we want a dog like us: big, blond, and kinda goofy.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 3:47 PM on October 29, 2016 [3 favorites]


So relatable. It's that feeling everyone has had at least once of their dream totally coming true. "This? For me?! It's real?!"
posted by limeonaire at 4:47 PM on October 29, 2016 [6 favorites]


So relatable. It's that feeling everyone has had at least once of their dream totally coming true. "This? For me?! It's real?!"

Somewhere I have a picture of the eighteen-month-old daughter of a friend (this daughter/this friend) taken when she won the Easter draw for a giant chocolate Easter bunny at a local bank. She is standing, hands clasped and slackjawed, standing next to this bunny about two inches taller than her. She is looking past the camera at her mom as if to say, "you're seeing this too, right?"

It is the same expression.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:17 PM on October 29, 2016 [6 favorites]


they're good dogs Brent

Oh noez my internets are mixing again
posted by Ender's Friend at 5:22 PM on October 29, 2016 [6 favorites]


Love it. I love my mini beagle but he's rotten sometimes, his newest tactic is spilling food bowl into other dogs eating area AND common area. (Water bowl)
And he can get away with it if not reminded. The bigger dog will not eat or drink until the situation is resolved. He's done this like 6 times in the last year.

Dudes a Napoleon.
posted by clavdivs at 7:23 PM on October 29, 2016 [1 favorite]


Louie the Labrador meets Basil Brush!
posted by sebastienbailard at 8:46 PM on October 29, 2016 [2 favorites]


I just watched this again. I want to be as happy as that dog!
posted by limeonaire at 10:08 PM on October 29, 2016


If you look carefully, you can see a narrow ridge of hair sticking straight up running down the dog's back.

It is as though the dog is saying "I think that's him--but it also looks like some kind of horrible monster. He's always playing tricks like this so I'll keep my guard up and walk over carefully and give a smell."

Then after the smell "It is you! Oh you!! You scared me to death. Thank goodness it is you. I am so happy!"
posted by eye of newt at 10:39 PM on October 29, 2016 [3 favorites]


dogs are the best

My cat watched that video and her remarks translated to "dogs -- pathetic former predators, or REALLY pathetic former predators? pffffft. Where's my breakfast?"

Then she read your comment and spit out "best at what, being stupid?"

Just saying. Cats are the best. No one is coercing me to say this. I am writing of my own free will.
posted by spitbull at 6:56 AM on October 30, 2016 [11 favorites]


No one is coercing me to say this. I am writing of my own free will.

Just avoiding becoming spatbull?
posted by Namlit at 8:32 AM on October 30, 2016 [1 favorite]


If you die, your cat will eat you, your dog will guard your corpse.
posted by VTX at 1:09 PM on October 30, 2016 [2 favorites]


Until your dog dies too and then your cat eats the both of you.
posted by spitbull at 5:14 PM on October 30, 2016 [3 favorites]


Until your dog dies too and then your cat eats the both of you.
posted by spitbull at 7:14 PM on October 30


And that, my friend, is why I will never own a cat. No offense to the kittehs. Merely not my thing.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 11:54 PM on October 30, 2016


This is the best thing ever. Two random thoughts:

1. The dog's reaction is exactly the same as my cousins reaction when someone rented a Mickey Mouse costume to wear to his second birthday party. Apparently his favourite show had guy-in-a-Mickey-Mouse-costume, and when Mickey Mouse walked in, he just couldn't even believe it.

2. If this guy never wears the costume again, that dog will eventually convince himself that he dreamed this whole thing.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 2:22 PM on October 31, 2016 [2 favorites]


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