When a pet parent stepped outside for a moment without her dog, he stared and waited for her, but his unawareness of her reentering through a different door quickly went viral.
Courtney Blake told Newsweek via TikTok that her dog, Zeke, knows the laundry room door well. It connects to the garage, which becomes a signal to him that she’s usually leaving. But, more often than not, this 140-pound boerboel of “pure entertainment” comes along.
“Zeke goes EVERYWHERE with me,” she said. “If I go outside, he goes outside. If I go run errands, he comes along for the car ride.”
However, in her July 5 TikTok video posted to the account @court_knee_b, Blake walked through the laundry room door without Zeke. The large dog thought she had left without him, even though they were just outside together.
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She only went out again to bring in her sister’s dog. But with the canine being on the other side of the yard, Blake entered through a different door. When she came back inside, she saw Zeke staring at the door.
“I was like, ‘What the heck are you doing? Zeke, I’m over here, bud,'” she said. “He didn’t turn around, and then I saw him tilting his head, I’m like he’s really listening to me thinking I’m on the other side of the door.”
Stunned that Zeke didn’t connect the dots, she began recording. Blake kept talking to Zeke, telling him to turn around and that she was there, but he never turned around. Instead, he twisted his head back and forth, trying to understand why she wasn’t coming in through the door.
He pawed at the door. His tail wagged as she spoke. Blake even inched closer to him, and yet, nothing.
When he did finally turn around, he looked at her with confused eyes. He wondered how she had magically appeared there. Relieved that she didn’t leave, he walked over to greet her.
With the clip bringing in more than 1.6 million views and 339,100 likes on TikTok as of Monday, people couldn’t stop cracking up at Zeke’s misunderstanding.
“It’s him tilting his head when you talk that was hilarious,” wrote one viewer, while another added: “The fact that you went closer and nothing changed.”
A third person jokingly asked: “Zeke doesn’t have a whole lot going on upstairs, does he?”
Someone else pointed out: “But can hear you open a bag of chips in the basement underneath a blanket and the TV blasting.”
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