Well this made me cry my eyes out (the video title is “My Dogs greeting me after returning from 14 months in Iraq”):
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Dogs rule. I love them.
Just do yourself a favor and enjoy the video, the fact that another soldier is home physically safe, and don’t look at the comments on the LiveLeak site. Some are sweet, but others are just hateful.
well, happiness is a warm puppy (regardless of the pup’s actual age).
Of course, dogs generally do that after you come back from a long weekend. Or from running errands. Or go outside to take the trash out. Dogs have no sense of time. But hey, it was an adorable video.
awwww so sweet! the black dog’s tail was wagging as fast as it could!
What kind of dogs to you have? Because mine freaks out when I come home after a few months away, but doesn’t react nearly the same way when I just come back from an errand.
But hey, way to be an obnoxious killjoy!
Awwwwwwwwwwwww. *sniff*
1:17 is when I actually teared up.
Waaaaaaaaaaaah puppies.
My dog hasn’t been away from us for more than a day yet. Come Xmas she will.
I feel bad about boarding her but I am looking forward to the greeting when we pick her up!
Just do yourself a favor and enjoy the video, the fact that another soldier is home physically safe
I like that take.
I looked at the comments. :(
I have never seen dogs that jubilant. What a sweet video.
Sorry, I screwed up my html. I was trying to quote and comment upon Jill’s comment: “But hey, way to be an obnoxious killjoy!”
Well, first of all, this made me cry…I’ve got dogs of my own and I know how crazy they get when we’re away from them for just a few days. I can only imagine what it was like for these dogs.
Then I showed the video to my husband, and since we’ve been watching Dog Whisperer a lot recently, I made the comment that, “of course, he’s giving affection to and excited mind, which is a no-no.”
The husband replied “Well, isn’t that what Bush is doing in Irag”. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
My dog does that when I come home b/c I live in another state and don’t see her that much. :*)
But hey, way to be an obnoxious killjoy!
Oh, ouch. I am not wagging right now. Tail between legs, slinking away. Whimper.
But hey, in five minutes I’ll have forgotten all about this, so we’re good.
Because mine freaks out when I come home after a few months away, but doesn’t react nearly the same way when I just come back from an errand.
When I came back after 10 months away, my very-house-trained and non-excitable-pee dog loosed his bladder all over my parents’ garage floor and crumpled into a quivering heap of “I thought I’d never see you again.” I’ve never felt so cruel in all my life.
But hey, in five minutes I’ll have forgotten all about this, so we’re good.
Yeah, Jill has it pegged. Obnoxious killjoy! My dog was also kind of obnoxiously clingy for a good while after that trip. Beagles are definitely pack dogs and I’m the pack. Luckily we’ve both had time to get over it. Thanks for the video. Can’t wait to show it to my dad.
That’s my daily dose of awwwwwwww. When I used to go away to summer camp, or as a summer exchange student, my dog would sleep on my pillow every night and when I got back she’d jump around barking at the top of her lungs. Even though I know it’s so hard to keep one in the city, I really miss having a dog around.
Last winter, though…I went holidaying in Belgium for a week. When I came back, the cat was lukewarm as ever…but there was a cat-hair-covered hollow in the duvet where he’d been sleeping.
This video made me cry. I’m in college and have to leave my dogs all the time, and I just feel awful because they don’t understand why I leave. Those poor dogs had to deal without their best friend for so long…
That’s mighty sweet. Thanks for posting it.
Oh man. You could see how the tails were wagging the dogs. Too adorable!
Bah, this is the kind of absolutely adorable shit that makes me feel guilty for leaving my dog home alone nine hours a day so I can earn the paycheck that lets me keep him. Stupid dogs with their stupid adorableness. Gah!
/waddles off to find her poor, neglected furbeast.
Oh, my, goodness. What a tearjerker indeed. The dogs of my childhood would react differently when I was gone, say, for the day or for a long vacation (or away at college). The initial excitement was the same, but the sustained excitement of the sort in this lovely video — that tended to show up after the longer time away.
And when the dude picks the one dog up… that’s when I lost it.
When my then-fiance and I went to visit his family for a week, my cat was left with my then-roommate, who hated everything I owned and therefore intended to ignore the cat entirely. We had a friend of mine come over to feed her since my roommate at the time refused.
When we got back from a week away, the pillow in my room closest to the stairs was absolutely coated in cat hair. She’d spent the whole week watching the stairs waiting for us to come back.
Tear. Jerker. Jerker of tears. I definitely teared up at 1:17, and I teared up more when the soldier seemed to be losing his composure too.
Makes me want to leave work right now to go home and cuddle my Dave.
God damn, why can’t people ever treat you that way?
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My dog is really excited every time I come home, no matter how long I’ve been gone. But she’s nothing like THAT. The longest I’ve been away from her is about 4 days, and she was really excited when I got back but it still didn’t hold a candle to those two.
I don’t believe for a minute that dogs completely lack a sense of time. Mine certainly acts differently when I’ve been gone a few days compared to a few hours or a few minutes. It’s as big a load of crap as when people say dogs don’t have personalities.
This is why I like dogs better than people.
Heh. My parents’ dogs do that every time I visit, which is usually once a year. It can be a bit overwhelming. I admit I’m sometimes more excited to see them than my folks… dogs are all non-judgey.
That said, my mum’s Little Guy would probably react that way if that soldier walked in the door. But he’s not quite right….
That was beautiful and moving – thank you so much for sharing!!!!!!!