A Maltese puppy might make neither head nor tail of his proprietor’s rug after being launched in an lovely second captured on digicam.
Brian Fossati from Denver, Colorado, took to Reddit to share the heartwarming footage of Milo seeing a shag rug for the primary time. “Does not compute,” he quips within the caption accompanying the clip.
Fossati instructed Newsweek: “When we first acquired Milo we determined to roll the rug up and put it away till after he was sufficiently pee pad educated. The video is definitely after he had been with us for a pair weeks and we felt he was educated sufficient to know to not pee on it. So it was the primary time he was seeing the rug, and it was the most important change he had skilled whereas residing at our home.”
In the video, Milo could be seen struggling to know what to make of the brand new ground overlaying. It initially seems as if he is pleased to stroll on it, however then he stops, turns again, then round once more and almost does a double take as if in disbelief on the look of the rug.
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At one level he seems tempted to roll on the shag, however stops himself from doing so. He then seemingly makes an attempt to wrestle with the rug, as if it have been a residing factor, earlier than turning his consideration elsewhere.
Milo can be forgiven for feeling a little bit anxious in regards to the rug. Anxiety of 1 form or one other is quite common amongst canines. A 2020 examine printed in Scientific Reports analyzing the nervousness traits of 13,700 dogs discovered that 72.5 p.c exhibited at the least one anxiety-related behavior.
Fossati has his personal concept as to what Milo made from the shag rug. “I believe he was making an attempt to course of what precisely the rug was as he had by no means seen it earlier than, he might have additionally been making an attempt to determine if it was the identical factor as him,” he mentioned.
The video was really filmed round three years in the past, when Milo first turned a member of the Fossati household. “My spouse actually wanted to get a Maltese, so we adopted him via the American Kennel Club,” he mentioned. “Some of his favourite issues embody his puzzles, studying methods, chewing on bully sticks and snuggling.”
At the time of writing, the video of Milo’s response to the rug had been upvoted over 8,000 instances—one thing that has left Fossati baffled.
“I even have a ton of footage of him and his numerous antics, amongst all of the stuff I’ve I actually did not anticipate this video to be the one which blows up,” he mentioned.
Three years might have handed, however the shag rug, very like Milo, stays a much-loved a part of the household. Fossati mentioned: “Fun reality: he has by no means had an accident on it and we nonetheless have the rug in our home at the moment.”
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