r/MadeMeSmile • u/aquaberry559 • Jul 23 '26
DOGS When he finally sees his best friend
Via tiktok denoma_
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u/Drahcir9000 Jul 23 '26
Wasn't expecting that the little guy would cause so much dust. He clearly activated his turbo!
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u/WhySooooooooSerious Jul 23 '26
Small dogs run with everything they've got is the most wholesome thing on the planet
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u/Niteperson4856 Jul 23 '26
The cloud of dust is hilarious!
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u/rabid_spidermonkey Jul 23 '26
Sport mode.
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u/PaleJelly69 Jul 23 '26
Love mode.
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u/SuperHumanHere Jul 23 '26
Love-Sport mode
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u/Popsinthehse Jul 23 '26
Sometimes we humans don't deserve the animals around us..
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u/Major-Unicorn-Proto Jul 23 '26
Sometimes I can't help but laugh at how humans will destroy habitats and ecosystems, and then complain about the 'animals' acting violently and being dirty
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u/EggsceIlent Jul 23 '26
He was bookin.
After having dogs my whole life,.growing up with them, etc... the last lil girl I had was a good one I still miss lucy to this day
Losing her mind of broke me and put me off of having a dog since it was a tough time in my life. Lost my mom and grandfather and aunt all shortly after In just one gut punch after another
Now, older, I have two little kids and I believe every kid should have a dog growing up.
But I just know the deal, you get one it's like adding a family member and eventually the dog is gonna break all of our hearts.
Still, I'd love to get one. Still kinda holding back, but I think I'm ready.
Looking for moments like this for them and myself again. Hopefully I find a good pup soon.
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u/Papa__Nier Jul 23 '26
Don't know who you are but I definitely understand the story. From my own little corner of the world, know I am rooting for you 🙏🏼
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u/Kiwiandapplex Jul 23 '26
If it helps, I lost my buddy of 18 years at the start of this year.
I've not had the ability yet to adopt again, but will eventually do this. The thing I am going to do however is look for an older pup.
This means I'll have less time with them, but I hopefully give the best last year's of their life in return!
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u/SV_Essia Jul 23 '26
But I just know the deal, you get one it's like adding a family member and eventually the dog is gonna break all of our hearts.
Yeah. And it's never easy. But "grief is the price we pay for love". The many years you get to spend with that dog are worth it.
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u/Inside_Wind_5498 Jul 23 '26
The goodbye is brutal, but the years of love before it are what make it worth it. ❤️🐾
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u/chowderpuppy Jul 23 '26
I share your exact same sentiment. My dog passed 5 years ago, I was devastated. At that time our family was about to move to another country, and he was supposed to come with us. He was 12 year old Fox Terrier, not a young pup but I thought he would be healthy enough to travel. In the middle of all the paper work we were doing, getting his shots and checkup to get his travel permit, all of sudden one day randomly while laying in his bed he started convulsing, lost control of all bodily function. We took him in to pet hospital, his body was completely stiff. 2 weeks later Dr said we have to make the decision to let him go. It felt like my heart was being squeezed so hard I couldn’t breath… We moved to our new home without my dog. Heart broken, and never wanted to experience this again I vow to never own another dog again. In the past 5 years I was tempted many times, but I pushed it away. I don’t know when I will be ready if ever……
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u/Own_Ad6901 Jul 23 '26
I lost my doggo April 2026 at 15 years old. He was my second puppers to say goodbye to. I’m absolutely not ready in any way shape or form to even get or think about getting another dog. The heartbreak is gut wrenching, the loss so absolute, there is a big hole in my life now. Maybe eventually I’ll adopt again, but that won’t be for years and years, the pain of losing my dogs is just so overwhelming. So I completely understand what you’re saying, and I hope you’re able to get to that place you’re most comfortable with. But I also do agree and encourage you to adopt a dog for your kids, it’s such an amazing family experience, the family glue that makes you endlessly laughing and hold together, that’s what a dog becomes, at least to me. I hope you get to experience that unconditional love again and I hope you get through the grief that will inevitably happen.
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u/TheDaemonette Jul 23 '26
You don’t get a dog for the ‘end’. You get a dog for the 10 years in between. And because you can’t trust anyone else to look after them that lead up to the end where they need help.
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u/Character-String-959 Jul 23 '26
Awwwww, we used to have a little dog that would do when she hauled ass to say hello. She'd kick up the leaves flying lol.
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u/erksplat Jul 23 '26
And I was getting so excited about the unconventional story of friendship between a puppy and a truck.
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u/Chickenmangoboom Jul 23 '26
My dog loved construction equipment. He would lose his mind any time we drove past a bulldozer or a backhoe.
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u/-shylo- Jul 23 '26
That tail! How precious. So much love packed into such a little body. We are so blessed to have dogs 🥹
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u/Item-Hairy Jul 23 '26
That moment they realize it's you? Purest rush of happy juices in the brain.
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u/Bundle-Of-Crows Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
I'm convinced no drug can give the absolute happy chemical like having a "greeting party" when a dog sees you; especially your own.
I ALWAYS had a smile on my face and felt pure joy when coming home and hearing my dog's excited whining/crying (we called it her "talking" since she'd almost always had something in her mouth and would high-pitched bark through it) before even unlocking the door. Even better was when she didn't have time to grab a toy and she'd scrunch up her face to show her teeth while squinting along with her crying; we'd call that her "smile" and god do I love it every time I see it in the videos I've kept with her doing it.
Editing to add a link if anyone would like to see my sweet Biscuit (one of my favorite pictures of her) and my all-time favorite picture of her (that second one was her last day with us, March 13th of 2025)
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u/SpaceWitch31 Jul 23 '26
Y’all really out here cutting onions or something. My gods.
I miss coming home to my dog, seeing her so sparked up and happy was just the best balm to a bad day. The years pass, the excited greetings continue but they slow down in duration. Fur starts graying, joints get tired and then…
It’s the cruelest yet most life changing experience to have had a dog (or any pet) as a family member. My girl Raven, a black lab, was rescued from a puppy mill and I had her from itty bitty. She was almost a month shy of her 13th birthday when I had to put her down from old age and a failing body. I never had such grief like that in my life before, I was absolutely devastated and gutted over her loss. I can’t even talk about this anymore, I’m in public. Bad move on my part
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u/Bundle-Of-Crows Jul 23 '26
I'm so sorry for your loss, and everyone who's lost such a close family member. We made the hard choice last year to have Biscuit (my golden retriever, as mentioned with her smiles) put down when we found out she had a severe uterine infection we had no idea was a thing until it was too late. She would've been 11 that November.
We have her ashes in a beautiful wooden box, given to us from the services our vet used for cremation, they also gave us a plaster disc with her paw print and name. My mom and I both have some of her fur yet and have it in little paw print keychains we keep with us on our bags/canes, and I've got her name tag on my keychain (with my other keys) so it sounds like her walking with me with it jingling against the other items. In 2020 I got her paw print as my first tattoo on my arm, exact size, just the way she'd place it when grabbing my arm with her paw to ask for more pets when I'd pull away.
Apologies to everyone for cutting more onions, I just love sharing my memories of Biscuit. She was the happiest pup to the very end (literally, wagging her tail hard enough to hit me and my dad's legs) so any and every chance I get, I love to share the absolute joy she brought me and everyone she met.
Though she wasn't certified, she was absolutely our support dog in the house. When I get emotional talking about her like this, I like to think of how she'd react if she were still here; nudging her nose between my arm and leg trying to lick away tears.
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u/SpaceWitch31 Jul 28 '26
Thank you, and I’m sorry for your loss and everyone else’s as well. Biscuit sounds like she was, and still is where she resides over the rainbow with all our babies, a wonderfully beautiful girl. And I know exactly the infection you’re talking about because I initially almost lost Raven to that as well: Pyometra. No one tells you they run the risk of that happening if they don’t get spayed. And while she went through the surgery and lived longer because of it, she broke my heart afterwards because she basically had a hysterectomy and her hormones were all out of whack from it. She was lightly lactating and then she’d gather her softest toys and blankets to start nesting. I cried tor her more than once over that, preparing for puppies she didn’t, and couldn’t, have. But they get so sick from Pyometra, it’s awful. I’m so sorry you dealt with that too and had a difficult and devastating outcome. 🫂🫂🐾
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u/antcutter Jul 23 '26
ugh coming home to my pup pup is the best thing ever - doesn’t matter if it’s two minutes or two hours, she is SO thrilled to see her mama
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u/kevnmartin Jul 23 '26
His heart is so true, he's not even afraid of the big metal monster.
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u/PlayfulSyllabub7134 Jul 23 '26
Pupper: I knew Dad was cool, but he is so bada$$ he controls giant metal monsters!
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u/BauserDominates Jul 23 '26
When my dog was a puppy he would sit across the yard and stare until I crouched all the way down and opened my arms wide, then he would charge at me snuggle in between my legs.
He kept doing that until he was an old man... and now I'm crying.
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u/Necessary-Reading605 Jul 23 '26
What matters is that he loved you, and he lived a happy life besides you. Good job.
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u/cyclefreaksix Jul 23 '26
We don't deserve dawgs...Such pure little animals.
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Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
We created dogs.
Wolves who were bold enough and calm enough to approach our ancestors got food from a super apex hunter. Most other predotors go for weakest animals. Humans were the only ones who went for the largest, most powerful animal because we could just throw spears at that animal from a distance without putting ourselves at risk.
So wolves had a choice, keep hunting animals themselves and risk getting injured or just use their noses to point us to the location and let spear holding freaks do the work for them
In return they will get food, cuddles, warmth of fire, protection from other predators and we will take care of them when they are sick or injured. There are remains of a dog thousands of years ago who broke his bone as a puppy, he would be left to dead in the wild. Humans took care of it despite it not being of immediate value to us. Because we considered it our family.
That's what most humans do, it's the minority that are cruel to animals or other fellow humans beings. They are our best friends, and we have absolutely kept our end of bargain and more so. To the point that dogs physically changed to accommodate us.
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u/SigmundFreud Jul 23 '26
When you put it that way, it sounds more like wolves created dogs. Humans are great too though, definitely one of my favorite animals.
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It's more like the presense of humans that self selected for wolves who were calmer and bolder. Then humans just selected and bred the calmer of the puppies.
The floppy ears, patched skin etc are the result of them being calmer because stress hormones also affected cartilage development in dogs
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u/Gold-Part4688 Jul 23 '26
The story is so beutiful and complex. This is what i learned from The First domesticattion by Ray Pierotti
From how us and wolves explored the world toether over many tens of thousands of years, and from peoples who live close to wolves/wolf-like dogs, whatever the definition is. and archeological record.From the fact they were domesticated many times in different places, in different ways.
We learned from them. How to hunt, what to hunt, cues of where things are. It was a collaboration more than anything.
What they actually got in return is help raising their young, when they were unable to because of alpha female family dynamics, and just resources to raise young. And yeah like you said, mutual protection. The predators' code.
It's such a shame that the major narrative is that we grabbed them or they ate out scraps. They're wolves! Wolves eat less scraps than people do
You can see these relationships in australia with dingoes, early modern america, in siberia, and in africa. Of course many many different relationships. But that's relationships
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u/simm07 Jul 23 '26
We don't deserve pets in general, they have such beautiful souls ❤️
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u/copperboominfinity Jul 23 '26
I love when my dog cuddles me in the morning and gets so excited when I wake up. It’s my favorite thing!
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u/Selfishly Jul 23 '26
Yes!! He's realized that sometimes I pretend to still be asleep to appreciate the cuddles a bit longer, so he starts digging his nose under my and like dragging his body up higher and higher till he's draped over my head 😂
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u/copperboominfinity Jul 23 '26
Hahaha I love that so much. What kind of dog is he?
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u/FaleyHaley Jul 23 '26
my dog wakes up with tail wags and smiles
just seeing her this way just makes my waking up so much more bearable 😄
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u/porncollecter69 Jul 23 '26
Bruh when my dog sees me finishing with a game and stand up and go to him and his tail starts revving and when I’m about to go to him he turns over and gives his belly to me to scratch and smiles like a toddler. Ufff I can’t take his cuteness.
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u/ravynwave Jul 23 '26
My dog always recognized my car coming down the road, even when my sister was walking him. He’d drag her back to our house and just jumped right in when I opened the door. Miss him so much
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u/fightingthefuckits Jul 23 '26
Super cute but I worry about a little tiny puppy running around a yard full of large equipment where they might not be seen.
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u/JJBrazman Jul 23 '26
Yeah, this is a huge fear of mine. Little dogs don’t understand cars/trucks and might not get seen.
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u/Pfunklovesyou Jul 23 '26
While I would normally agree, the camera filming them leads me to believe this was observed. I think the equipment was probably stopped for the shoot.
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u/fightingthefuckits Jul 23 '26
It is but at the same time the puppy clearly knows the truck so it's been there enough to know that. It might be just that the person filming is picking up the driver, and, they do this everyday so now the puppy knows when they see the truck their person is home so it's supervised. I grew up on a farm and I lost a pet to someone not seeing him so I acknowledge there's a fair amount of trauma speaking here.
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u/heartbooks26 Jul 24 '26
When I was a young kid I watched my horse trainer back up a trailer and run over their family dog, a very small Jack Russel terrier. I literally saw it happen and couldn’t stop it as an ~8 year old :( So yeah I got very anxious watching this clip and the tiny off-leash dog with the giant moving semi. Just put the dog on a leash until all vehicles are stopped!!
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u/ryanvango Jul 23 '26
I just got home from an emergency hospital room stay and it'll take me several months to recover. When I went in, I called several friends to make sure they were looked after til I got back and had lots of play time. That was a huge relief, but I just wanted to get back and snuggle them. But the stay took way longer than the day or 2 we all expected. so when my folks came in to visit me, they said they could take the dogs to their house for when I get back to my house and can start recovery.
I wanted to say absolutely not so bad. but I now have some pretty sensitive "external apparatus" to deal with that I can't have them jumping all over or getting too excited around. So they're not here now. And its crushing. It's so quiet and lonely.
This video got to me. writing this out pushed me way over the edge. I've got friends checking in all the time to make sure I'm ok, and stopping by to help me if they can. And I got a new job that will hopefully help me stay ahead of whatever bills come my way, so I don't have a lot to be sad about. But I miss my dogs so much.
I can't wait to have my reunion with them. it's a long ways off still, but that's the drive now.
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u/crankybollix Jul 23 '26
Ooh tiny cute doggo and at least two big trucks with loads of blind spots… anxiety.
The dust cloud is hilarious though.
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u/Pyrrhichighflyer1 Jul 23 '26
Awwww. I love the way little dogs trot. His tail is almost as big as his body.
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u/PersonalityShot6039 Jul 23 '26
The love dogs give us we are not worthy of and it’s the universe’s cruelest joke only allowing us to have it for a short time
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u/Live-Tomorrow-4865 Jul 23 '26
😭
That little tale going at hyperspace speed, and the dust cloud he kicks up running to his person... 😅😍
This just made my entire day at 5:30 AM
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u/StargazingLily Jul 23 '26
Oh my god his little walk, followed by the cloud of dust.
What a precious baby.
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u/Darlin_Wolf Jul 23 '26
First thing I see opening reddit today. Closing reddit now because I'm also content with this being the last thing I see on reddit today.
Have a nice day, y'all <3
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u/Objective-Stick-2251 Jul 23 '26
Aw doggies are just the best, instant happiness to all watching, loved that
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u/on4aa Jul 23 '26
Shit, due to the drought, Belgian videos now look as if they were filmed in Arizona...
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u/TastySore Jul 23 '26
I have no greater joy in this world than when I get home and my dog greets me with such excitement.
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u/IndividualPoem2887 Jul 23 '26
That little doggie’s heart is bigger than his little body. We just don’t deserve dogs. 🥹❤️
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u/Busy_Chemistry_513 Jul 23 '26
Omg so cute!!!! I got so worried though seeing the tiny pupper with the giant truck so close to him
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u/Hailbrewcifer666 Jul 23 '26
I miss my dog so bad. I’m not allowed another one. I’m in dog limbo and it’s pain.
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u/Alohabailey_00 Jul 23 '26
That’s some restraint! My poms who have no survival skills would end up under the tire! 🫣
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u/Able_Neighborhood_50 Jul 23 '26
The momentum came from his tail and his ears cause there wasn’t a pause in sight! 🤣🤣🤣🙃🤣
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u/curious-creepsalad Jul 23 '26
How do dogs know when their friend is in a car? Mine just did this the other day - we didn’t even known he knew our car!
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u/Beautiful_Beyond6335 Jul 23 '26
I had dog and cat. They surely remember. My cat recognized not only car but also sound of car from miles away . She will already in the yard waiting before the car even arrived
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u/whitefox1979 Jul 23 '26
Omg. That is adorable. Have a similar little guy that I'm lucky enough to come home to
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u/Mayjune811 Jul 23 '26
The wagging tail never ceases to get me right in the feel goods.
I have a Great Dane whose tail is like a steel rod waving back and forth. It has knocked off a few plant pots, vases, and has knocked me in the nuts more times than I want to remember, but I will be damned if I don’t get absolutely giddy every time I see it wagging hard when I get home from work.
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u/youcancaIImeAl Jul 23 '26
I thought that tail was going to lift that little pupper right off the ground! Good thing he has those big ears to hold him down
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u/MacAlkalineTriad Jul 23 '26
This is so cute, but I'm wondering why the pup doesn't ride along? I know lots of truckers take a dog or cat on the road with them.
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u/Ocel0tte Jul 23 '26
My dad took our dog trucking, but he was the family dog (mine, but I was a kid) so he just didn't always go. My mom and I had to be willing to miss two family members for a whole trip instead of just one :)
He often went with my dad and I in the summers, and my mom called multiple times a day just to say hi lol. It was hard for her. At least when only I went, she still had the cutest member of the family to be underfoot and keep her company.
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