I can’t remember where I first saw this video, but I do remember crying. Because OMG is there anything sweeter than a dog so happy to see her daddy back from Afghanistan? I think not.
After I got done crying I started thinking about how happy this dog was to see her owner. How odd that really is. Someone that you trust and depend on steps out of your life for 6 months without nary an email and when he comes back you’re rolling over onto your back so he can scratch your belly? Preposterous.
But in a dog’s world it makes sense. It makes sense because dogs love in an extraordinary way. In a way that puts us humans to shame. Because dogs are able to give the people in their lives the benefit of the doubt. The soldier was gone for months and this dog could have assumed that he had found a new best friend or that he had forgotten about her or that he had run out on her. It would have been easy to make those assumptions and to have then punished her human master accordingly.
But she didn’t. Instead she gave him the benefit of the doubt and unleashed months of pent up love on his butt. And it was awesome in all its tear-inducing glory.
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i’m not even going to try to watch this video because i’m at work and i can’t start crying like a big fat baby… which i know will happen since your description made my eyes well up with tears.
Aww, I found it on a page where there were, like, 5 videos of soldiers reuniting with their dogs. I watched all of them and was a mess. It’s so sweet.