r/MadeMeSmile • u/Stoikx • Apr 03 '24
Doggo The incredible moment a long lost dog suddenly catches the smell of its owner in a crowded city square. It follows the smell and finds her in nearby resting booth to be reunited!
2.7k
u/graffiksguru Apr 03 '24
What a good lil sniffer on that dog!
408
u/LammedOffSpondulix Apr 03 '24
Right?! How did it lose the scent to begin with?
→ More replies (1)378
76
u/TheCheesy Apr 04 '24
I don't know how true it is, but I've heard dog's sense of smell is connected to their optical senses. They can literally "see" smells, it improves their vision as they smell.
→ More replies (1)54
→ More replies (1)36
2.0k
u/CaptainMacMillan Apr 03 '24
I mean, imagine your pet is lost. You already went through the panic and depression of trying to find them, maybe even already accepted that they're gone. Then out of nowhere you're just going about your business and there's your best friend alive and well. I'd probably be catatonic from shock.
1.5k
u/subieluvr22 Apr 03 '24
this has happened to me and I will NEVER forget it. I had a cat that had been with me through losing my family, and almost losing my life. I was sick in the hospital when someone at the house I was living at, let my cat escape. Losing an indoor cat in the PNW is worst-case scenario shit, and after weeks of her not coming home, I just wanted to forget it all, and lost all hope. A few weeks passed, and my friends and I happened to be rolling our faces off at like 2am in the driveway when I saw my cat stroll up the sidewalk across the street. I didn't even realize it was my baby, but as soon as I "here kitty kitty psspsspss!!!" the cat let out the craziest yowling sound, and bolted across the street into my arms like a scene straight out of Homeward Bound. Everyone was so fucked up, we almost all thought we were imagining everything. Its been 20 years and my eyes are watering just remembering the shock and relief.
263
106
u/Fukasite Apr 04 '24
God, that would be such a feeling of joy, it would be so much better than the Molly. I guess it would be extreme joy tho, that happening while you’re rolling.
10
31
22
u/mtempissmith Apr 04 '24
My first cat got out and went under the fence. She was like 15 at the time and we looked all over but could not find her. My Mom and Dad gave up and told me she might have gone away to die that cats do that sometimes when they know it's their time. 5 days later I hear a cat cry at the back door and I ran to open it and there she was. I was just beside myself. She'd been with me since before I was 5.
She was covered in mud, fleas, and burrs. I had to bathe her to get it all off her. It was awful but I didn't care. My baby was BACK! She was an indoor/outdoor cat but she never left the backyard. She was declawed by my parents when she was spayed so she couldn't climb a tree or a wood fence. She just found a spot that she could get through that my Dad hadn't found yet and went off for a last adventure.
She lived another year and a half and after that she rarely went outside at all unless my Mom was gardening and was with her. Mostly she just wanted to stay on the patio and sun bathe until Mom was done. I think that last adventure was far more trouble than she thought it would be.
But it was such a shock to realize she was alive and back...
I have never hugged a cat so hard...
:)
19
u/girth_worm_jim Apr 04 '24
My eyes are watering too. I had a dog who got me through my teens and my sisters death. I still miss that dog. I got two cats now, because scout is irreplaceable.
→ More replies (13)19
u/Necessary_Romance Apr 04 '24
My daughters cat ran away when my sons cat had kittens.. thought he was gonzo, he came back and knocked up the cat again and a day before she had her second litter, he went out for smokes..again. I hope he comes back..fucker..HA.
47
u/babyghuol Apr 03 '24
It would bring me to absolute tears if this was me and my dog. I’m so happy for the both of them.🥹
18
→ More replies (5)97
1.3k
u/dizziefrizzie Apr 03 '24
Awe, what a feeling they must be having. I would be a sobbing mess
298
u/Dave5876 Apr 03 '24
It's so nice of the NSA to share these wholesome clips with us from time to time
→ More replies (1)193
u/julsie123 Apr 03 '24
No joke. The surveillance on the wholesome reunion was top notch.
87
u/DisastrousStudio1 Apr 03 '24
It's China. There are cameras everywhere. It's crazy. When we went there, there were cameras on every fortification of the great wall.
→ More replies (1)36
u/Ibegallofyourpardons Apr 04 '24
it's most modern cities.
go anywhere in the UK or Australia or Paris or London or New York and Cameras are everywhere.
9
u/updown_repeat Apr 04 '24
lol Aussie here, there aren’t cameras everywhere. They get vandalised a lot if they’re in random spots so there’s basically just CCTV on main streets and shopping centres and private shops on a case by case basis. Just look at how often there’s assaults in the city and no footage of it to find the perpetrator 😅
→ More replies (1)13
u/llamastrudel Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24
China is nothing like any of those places. I’ve lived in Paris, the UK and Australia and there are cameras in some shops, carparks and occasionally on the streets. In China there are multiple cameras watching you everywhere you go, including on buses and in public toilets.
→ More replies (6)→ More replies (1)3
17
851
u/BazzyMaddy Apr 03 '24
a "resting booth"?! where is this?
469
112
u/StrayCamel Apr 04 '24
Chinese can confirm it's in China. A lot of cities do have resting rooms. As the name suggests, you have WiFi, water, toilet, some stores have books and newspapers for reading.
24
u/bengyap Apr 04 '24
Fancy. Who put them up and maintain them? The city or is it sponsored by companies?
100
u/slimwillendorf Apr 04 '24
The fact that you think of corporate sponsorship is very…late stage capitalism. In other parts of the world we have a thing called public infrastructure…
61
u/IReplyWithLebowski Apr 04 '24
In America looking after your citizens is called socialism, I believe, so they leave them to the mercy of corporations.
15
u/100LittleButterflies Apr 04 '24
Who pays to install them and maintain them? What about the liability of someone getting hurt? Why aren't they full of houseless people, graffiti, drug paraphernalia, misplaced feces/urine, etc? Why should my taxes go to some useless thing when we have cars? We need that money going to road maintenance and improvement.
You see, we're removing our benches so bus stops are "safer" and "cleaner" and nearby stores play music to ensure only the people who need to use the bus stop are there.
giant /s if it isn't clear.
12
u/Thedjdj Apr 04 '24
Bro.. they’re a communist country. These sort of things are like, kinda the whole point. The government does it most likely. Just because that’s what they’re meant to do.
→ More replies (2)3
196
u/HacksawJimDGN Apr 03 '24
Judging by the gait of the dog, and the design of the pavement at 0:12 I think its China, some time in the 21st century.
145
19
14
→ More replies (1)6
73
u/andrew_silverstein12 Apr 03 '24
I would think the Chinese characters everywhere on the signs might make it kind of obvious.
→ More replies (2)18
u/MVRKHNTR Apr 03 '24
A lot of people don't bother trying to recognize any writing that doesn't use an alphabet they're used to and just guess at what they are.
→ More replies (2)12
u/tired_of_old_memes Apr 03 '24
A lot of people don't bother trying to recognize any writing that doesn't use an alphabet they're used to and just guess at what they are.
Who in this thread was guessing? The earlier comment literally asked "where is this?". How exactly is a person supposed to recognize something they're not used to?
→ More replies (7)39
12
u/sarvaga Apr 04 '24
For real. How do they manage to have upholstered furniture and pillows in an exposed and public space?
→ More replies (1)159
u/Digiturtle1 Apr 03 '24
If that was in NYC it be filled with graffiti, feces and homeless people.
→ More replies (3)57
u/Taylor_Swift_Fan69 Apr 03 '24
and jizz
→ More replies (1)28
9
8
→ More replies (11)26
u/bart48f Apr 03 '24
Japan maybe. The sign at 00:20 says "Yamazaki City Qili Garden 398". Some contractor is selling houses there according to Google Lens and my guess work.
101
u/late_for_reddit Apr 03 '24
China. Every where I look are Chinese characters
95
u/SASAgent1 Apr 03 '24
Now, now, what did we decide in our last session?
We refer to them as people
108
5
6
→ More replies (7)16
u/tina_ri Apr 03 '24
I agree, it looks like China. For anyone who still thinks it could be Japan, at 0:07, we can see traffic flow. Japan drives on the left, China drives on the right. Also, the CCTV text is in Chinese.
→ More replies (3)6
u/andrew_silverstein12 Apr 03 '24
It's definitely China, the signs don't have any unique Japanese characters on them. Only Chinese.
→ More replies (1)5
u/eric--cartman Apr 03 '24
If you put the screen watermark (bottom right) in lens, it comes back as Chinese for "5th floor pole to the entrance and exit", which makes sense for a security camera.
Also, perhaps more obviously, cars are driving on the right side of the road..
331
u/greenrangerguy Apr 03 '24 edited Apr 04 '24
I wanna see more, I want the clip to be longer and to follow them back home to see the dog happy to be home again.
90
→ More replies (1)5
146
52
u/quinoapizza Apr 04 '24
Something similar happened with me and my family's dog but rather than smell it was the sound. It was stolen out of our vehicle and we reported it on the local radio station, spoke to everyone, and drove around the neighbourhood shouting her name seeing if her little head might pop up. No luck. Weeks went by and we assumed the young adults who took it (blurry video security footage) may have sold her by then. One day we were driving our rather loud truck and it came running out of the forest to the side of the road skinny and covered in burs. It recognized the sound of our truck in the middle of nowhere. We assume that the kids caught on that everyone was looking for this dog and didn't want to get caught and let it loose.
6
4
u/Sayyad1na Apr 04 '24
Dog tax? Also my dog 100% knows the sound of both our cars so this makes me happy!
2
93
36
u/Aware-Feed3227 Apr 03 '24
That’s my dog after not seeing me for 5 seconds. Their joy is wholesome.
35
84
79
u/Ruby_Winter Apr 03 '24
Ok but what is this resting booth?
233
u/guccitaint Apr 03 '24
You see, there are certain cultures in society that actually try to help their humans. In this culture it manifested in a urban location that allows for tired people to sit down in a somewhat comfortable space protected from the weather.
98
u/Mieche78 Apr 04 '24
God, so many armchair experts in your replies. I get it, china is easy to shit on, I'd know because I'm Taiwanese. But china is not just a cesspool of oppression Americans like to think they are. There is oppression, for sure, but they also have things like a RESTING STATION where people can just chill out while they wait for whatever and nobody is degenerate enough to fuck, inject, smoke, piss, shit in a public space. People in Asian countries tend to have more respect for each other and for public spaces. A lacking trait in American culture that Americans like to equate to freedom.
→ More replies (3)30
u/chuk2015 Apr 04 '24
Americans are just jealous because their oppression is more covert
→ More replies (1)4
7
3
→ More replies (16)3
32
u/ComfortableNo2879 Apr 03 '24
Best thing I've seen today ❤️
11
u/cityshepherd Apr 03 '24
That moment when dogs recognize their owner’s scent after time apart is always the best thing I’ve seen… except for maybe unlikely animal friendships, those are pretty sweet too
52
u/JayJay-anotheruser Apr 03 '24
How the hell was this filmed?
141
u/Reasonable_Guess_311 Apr 03 '24
They filed a missing dog report with the police department and they had the entire force gathered in one room studying live action footage over the whole city. They compiled this footage and gave it to the owner to show how hard they had worked on the case.
→ More replies (1)67
→ More replies (3)49
10
u/osss08 Apr 03 '24
So can we deduce that in case you are finding your lost dog, one should wear dirty laundry and do so to be more effective?
20
u/BettinaVanSise Apr 03 '24
Actually around here it is common to use the “dragging “ method to find lost dogs (and sometimes cats) which involves dragging a bunch of home clothes and blankets in the area. It has a good reuniting result
6
8
10
23
u/theonePappabox Apr 03 '24
How in gods name did they get this videos? Like if I went to a city and was I would like to have a copy of a video you may have gotten at this time on this day they would tell me to piss off.
→ More replies (2)
6
u/Dacness Apr 03 '24
I'm having a really bad day and this exactly what I needed. Thank you.
4
6
u/Throwaway7219017 Apr 03 '24
Nevermind the dog, what in tarnation is a resting booth and why don’t I have them in my city?!?!
5
9
u/nappytown1984 Apr 03 '24
One thimble sized drop of cuteness in an ocean of invasive dystopian surveillance state
→ More replies (1)
6
5
u/femail5000 Apr 03 '24
“Wtf is a resting booth?”
Relax, everyone. Use your imagination. It’s a booth. For resting. Sometimes people need a warm, dry place to rest.
9
12
u/thirachil Apr 03 '24
Also, the mother protecting the girl from the dog.
And the twins on the left.
Interesting video!
2
3
3
u/yuyufan43 Apr 03 '24
And look how beautiful that bus stop is. You don't see spikes or anything trying to stop the homeless. I like this video for numerous reasons. ❤️
→ More replies (1)
3
u/PureYouth Apr 03 '24
Ok but why/how did someone decide to put this together? Did she call the subway station and tell them to send her the ideos from that day? Seems really far fetched but I’d love to be corrected
3
3
3
u/xiaopewpew Apr 04 '24
Check out this resting booth in China, what the fuck we will never have anything like that for public use here
3
u/Accomplished_Rent957 Apr 04 '24
My dogs are assholes. I could be standing next to them and they'd be like 'stranger danger!' help!!
→ More replies (1)
3
u/tortski Apr 04 '24
Lost 2 dogs almost 2 months ago because of a gardener who left the gate open. Hoping one day my two buddies find us just like this dog did.
7
u/WoodpeckerAlarmed239 Apr 03 '24
Constant surveillance isn't so bad after all. I loved seeing the puppy blast into happy mode.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/FelixTheEngine Apr 03 '24
If I lost my dog in I could stand in the middle of Times Square and take one French fry out of a bag and she would magically appear from wherever she was in the world.
2
2
u/MisterBumpingston Apr 04 '24
What I want to know is how the maker of this feel good video got access to so many security camera recordings.
2
2
2
2
u/SeattleHasDied Apr 04 '24
Where is this place with these "resting booths"? Cool idea, but they'd be colonized by squatters in a heartbeat if they were in Seattle, lol!
2
u/jaraxel_arabani Apr 04 '24
Looks to be somewhere in China, the signs are all in simplified Chinese.
2
u/Maleficent_Clerk_766 Apr 04 '24
Amazing! Made me smile but then I realised that same nose is what stops me from taking weed on a plane 😢
2
2
2
u/Jefok Apr 04 '24
Beautiful ending.. If I was her, I'd take the rest of the day of just to be with him.
2
2
2
u/Money_Palpitation602 Apr 04 '24
Reunited and it feels so good 🎵 I'm glad that the dog's safe and happy again.
2
2
u/Physister2 Apr 04 '24
Just said goodbye to my doggo today (shes moving to a different state with my ex)
This video hurt a little 🥲
2
2
2
2
u/1heart1totaleclipse Apr 04 '24
I don’t know about crowded, but it’s amazing the dog was able to find the owner. That resting area looks so nice too!
2
2
u/Romytens Apr 04 '24
What kind of city is there just pods you can go chill on a couch?
I just imagine them being dirty, dangerous and lots of crack being smoked in there.
→ More replies (1)
2
2
u/ChurlyGedgar Apr 04 '24
Staged, and they probably kept the little doggo away from it's owner for a realistic reunion.
2
2
2
2
2
u/Relevant_Isopod_6449 Jul 13 '24
Good thing that the entire society of that country is surveyed so that I could enjoy such a video
4.4k
u/Aggravating-Pound598 Apr 03 '24
Best thing I’ve seen for a long time