All you need is love—even if you’re a dog.
Yesterday, William, who’s away at college, tweeted that his poor pit bull, Dublin, wasn’t getting any love from the trick-or-treaters at his mom’s place.
My dogs been greeting trick or treaters all night and they are scared to pet him and he's so sad pic.twitter.com/Oo7nsfC6uw
— 𝖂𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖒 (alex g fan account) (@faguettte) November 1, 2016
look how happy he was before hand FUCK those kids pic.twitter.com/gmU6lmsBGC
— 𝖂𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖒 (alex g fan account) (@faguettte) November 1, 2016
HE WAS CRYING IM SO SAD FUCK pic.twitter.com/AwMo0fMLYC
— 𝖂𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖒 (alex g fan account) (@faguettte) November 1, 2016
“The kids weren’t petting my dog because they were scared,” William told BuzzFeed in an interview. “She said he kept crying and that instantly made me so sad.”
Not only did it make his owner sad, but thousands of people on Twitter instantly sympathized, posting crying reaction GIFs and depressed selfies in response and retweeting the original over 47,000 times. Many even shared stories about their own pitties enduring similarly cold receptions.
— Noah (@kulvdub) November 2, 2016
https://twitter.com/ItsStoopKidDood/status/793643065856536576
https://twitter.com/Alexis_m4/status/793611597012795394
https://twitter.com/Carlyeeann/status/793285777836748800
This isn’t the internet’s first collective love sesh: Just this spring, thousands rallied for a cookout with “Sad Papaw,” whose sparsely attended burger barbecue photo went viral. A few months later, no one went to a grandma’s art reception at the local library, so her granddaughter made sure she saw the hundreds of tweets of encouragement that poured in for her online.
Fortunately, William’s aunt had the perfect solution to Dublin’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Halloween: She made getting candy contingent on petting Dublin. That seemed to brighten his night:
https://twitter.com/sinamonnroII/status/793316029585887232
https://twitter.com/sinamonnroII/status/793584444846272512
It’s the “happily ever after” every dog deserves.
H/T BuzzFeed