When you see someone jump out of their car at a red light to talk with another motorist, usually it’s bad news. Most of the time, it’s the moment when road rage gets personal.
But 26-year-old Celina Romera caught video of probably one of the most adorable red-light interactions between motorists on December 15 in Tampa, Florida.
In the video, an unidentified man pops out of his car at a stoplight with a darling puppy in his hand. In the other car, a big German Shepherd pops his head out and the two dogs exchange kisses.
“I JUST WITNESSED THE PUREST THING EVER,” Romera wrote on Facebook.
After the light changes, the man with the puppy gently walks back to the car. In the video Romera can be heard saying, “It’s okay, man. Take your time.”
One could imagine that the dogs were barking at each other before the video began.Then, the owner of the puppy thought it was okay for the two dogs to meet. The American Kennel Club says that barking between dogs is a pretty crude way to communicate.
However, it is part of a host of messages that dogs send to one another.
The job of a dog’s owner is to determine if the dogs are ready to share a sniff or of one is fearful.
“The combination of barking, body language, and approach-avoidance behavior gives away the fearful dog’s motivation, even to us relatively uneducated body-language readers,” the Club says on its blog.
The original video Romera posted has been shared over 120,000 times.
The heartwarming video is a reminder that nothing can bring two strangers and millions of Facebook viewers together quite like dogs.
This article originally appeared on 12.16.19
