Boy caught on video sneaking into neighbor’s garage to hug her dog

[davidthegnome]

16. Uplifting story. Thank you for posting.

Brings back some memories. When I was a little boy, there was a big (almost giant) black lab that lived some distance down the street from me. I was always out on my bike doing something - and one day when he was standing there, wagging his tail and looking longingly at the tennis ball in the grass, I decided to stop and play with him a bit. It began something of a friendship between Cob (that was his name) and I that lasted for several years. Occasionally Cob's humans would come outside, or stop and watch - and other neighborhood kids eventually came to see him, too.

Not sure what made me decide to play with him that day, since he was big - and I was always kind of scared of big dogs back then. Maybe he just looked lonely. Or bored. Maybe it was that giant wagging tail, or the fact that he didn't rip my face off (which, in retrospect, could have happened) when I stopped to play with him.

This kid took it a step further in sneaking into a garage - but I'll bet you it was the dog's fault for staring at him with those big eyes and wagging it's tail. I wish there were more stories like this.