If you’ve ever lived with a dog (or cat, or anything furry and opinionated), you already know: quirks come with the territory.
Every pet has their own brand of “what on earth are you doing?”
Whether it’s the cat who treats cucumbers like mortal enemies or the dog who insists on burrowing into the laundry pile like it’s a five-star suite—life with animals is a comedy show with no intermission.
Take Milo, my Maltese. He’s got a PhD in weirdness and a masterclass in making me laugh. His favorite hobby?
Crawling under any piece of fabric he can find. Blankets, shirts, towels—he doesn’t discriminate. I once caught him halfway inside a pair of my boxers, frozen mid-squirm like, “Don’t judge me, Mom.
I’m trying something new.” He also refuses to go outside if there’s so much as a drizzle. The mere whisper of rain and he’s already filing a protest by the door.
Baths? Absolutely not. Morning dew? He tiptoes like he’s walking through a minefield.
At first, I thought I had a diva on my hands. But it turns out, Maltese dogs weren’t bred to swim—so water just isn’t their thing.
Milo isn’t high-maintenance; he’s just being who he was born to be.
And honestly, that realization hit me again after watching a TikTok from @amityjoyce about her dog, George.
She called it his “rare disability,” but once you see it, you’ll know it’s something far sweeter than that.
In the video, George walks from his food bowl in the kitchen—carefully carrying a mouthful of kibble—to the living room, where his family is gathered.
Only once he’s there, surrounded by his people, does he start to chew. It’s not a one-time thing either; it’s his daily ritual.
Now, at first glance, it’s the kind of cute, slightly odd behavior that makes pet parents smile. But here’s the thing: it’s actually rooted in something deep and instinctual.
Long before dogs were domesticated, they were pack animals. They ate together, lived together, protected one another.
So when George carries his food from his bowl to the living room carpet, he isn’t being strange—he’s being loyal. He’s eating with his pack.
Cue the collective meltdown of the internet.
Comments flooded in from other dog parents who realized their pups do the exact same thing.
“My dog will literally cry until I bring his food into the room I’m in 😭💛,” wrote one. Another said, “My dog leaves his food untouched unless I sit down to eat with him.”
Suddenly, something that seemed like a silly quirk turned into a shared moment of tenderness between people who just get it.
And that’s the magic of it, isn’t it? Dogs remind us that connection doesn’t need words—it just needs presence.
George doesn’t want fancy treats or a special bowl.
He just wants to be with his people, to eat side-by-side, to share life’s small, quiet joys the way his ancestors did.
So next time your dog carries his food halfway across the house, or curls up in your laundry pile, or refuses to go out in the rain—remember, it’s not misbehavior.
It’s love in motion.
That’s a good boy, Georgie.
