Tessa Luke, 33, lives in Brighton, U.K., with her partner David Wheatcroft, 27, and their border collies Finn and Cleo, and her family has gone viral thanks to a brilliant clip of how she is welcomed home.
In a clip shared on April 23 which has been viewed over one million times, she wrote: “Every time I come home David always answers the door like this as if Finn answers.”
It shows the front door opening to the collie’s head, elevated to the height of a human, poking through the door, with Wheatcroft saying in a soft voice: “Yes? Who is it?”
As Luke laughs, Wheatcroft closes the door on her face, before opening it again and holding Finn in the same position.
Luke (@withmax_) cannot stop laughing throughout the clip, and she told Newsweek that Wheatcroft and Finn “just do funny things together to try and make me laugh”.
The professional dog trainer and clinical canine behaviorist student explained Wheatcroft had initially been against getting a second dog, “but he soon started to realize Finn had quite a stupid personality and made us laugh a lot with his strange facial expressions and funny attitude which, to be honest, is similar to David.”
She said the door-answering tradition started around six months ago, inspired by Finn pulling “a stupid face” when they open the door “in an attempt to control himself from not going crazy when we walk in”.
“David decided to lift him and answer the door so I could directly see his silly face as if he was answering the door to me. David does it most days if he is home and this one time I decided to record it and I caught it all on camera,” she said.
While Finn is an adored dog, Luke admitted he was a “challenge to train” as he was initially a nervous and reactive pup, and she feels “very lucky” to have her professional background to help train him out of it.
Border collies are known as energetic, intelligent dogs, but require a lot of time and energy to keep them from growing bored, according to the American Kennel Club.
Luke said: “By growing his confidence and socialising him properly I feel we really got his true personality to shine through. He is now a super confident, loving, friendly dog and I’m so pleased he came to me and didn’t continue his life nervous and scared with someone else that may not have understood him.
“Now he’s online making a huge community of people laugh and I’m so happy about that.”
And that “huge community” shared their love for Finn in their hundreds, flocking to the comments where one said, “This is my type of humor”.
This is so insanely cozy,” another wrote. “Just a little thing that creates so much joy.”
“I watched this way more times than I should,” another wrote alongside a series of laughing emojis, as one declared: “The ‘yes?’ has killed me.”
Luke added to Newsweek that she didn’t expect the video to go viral, but it’s “nice to know people can also see and share Finn’s funny side with us because he’s a really silly dog and it brightens our days when he’s in a silly mood.
“So I’m glad it’s brightening others’ days too. Dogs are great for that, aren’t they?”
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