"All by myself! Don't wanna be...all by myself, anymore!" (via Imgur)
YouTube's Mike the Intern, aka reddit's nigelandtheghost, used buddy's Go Pro to see what his Goldendoodle did all day when he left the house. The results, he claimed, will cause him to never leave his dog again.
In the edited footage of what happens after the door closes, we see a desperate attempt to understand the abandonment. The dog races back and forth from the door to the windows, and then eventually to Mike's bed, where he collapses on a pile of dirty laundry, all the while howling as he desperately sniffs the clothing's odors in a pathetic attempt to reincarnate his owner through scent. This is the dog version of clicking "Like" on all of your ex's Facebook photos. This is the dog version of crying to Céline Dion's "All By Myself" while reading old g-chats.
At times, the dog searches for clarity by staring at the fan and howling. Either that, or he is bemoaning the fact that his owner is the kind of human that keeps Pink Floyd posters on his ceiling.
I should warn you that if you are the same kind of person as my Happy Place colleagues who can't handle the truth about how upset and frightened their dogs get while they go out and live their lives, this is not the video for you.
Shakespeare couldn't pen a more pathetic tragic hero.
This is exactly how I react when I find out my roommate has eaten my Chinese food leftovers.
For one thing, who the hell doesn't say goodbye to their dog that is staring at them when they're leaving the house? At around 28 seconds in, you can hear someone in the background ask, "Are you really leaving it on?" And then, after the door closes, you hear a cackling because, hahahahahah, that dog is all alone.
Not that Mike wasn't upset when he watched the video. As he comments on reddit, it was all a shock to him. His dog "never destroyed stuff or anything... So I had no reason to believe he was losing it this bad."
Apparently, he watched the video with his dog and "We held each other and cried after."
I hope this serves as a lesson for all those people who call themselves heroes for rescuing dogs from a shelter and then leaving them alone all week to ponder the meaninglessness of their existence without you.
For perspective, here's a video of shelter dogs totally partying after the humans have left.