Snowy, Mishku, and Laila saw their guardian Gauri Singh walk away and couldn’t bear it.
It was time for the vidai, the ritual in which an Indian bride says goodbye to her parents’ home after the wedding.
Gauri, from Dehradun, was already walking toward the exit when the family’s three dogs—a Labrador, a golden retriever, and a German shepherd—started barking and crying from the balcony.
As if they knew that something important was coming to an end. She stopped, ran back upstairs, and hugged them one by one. “Mom is here”, she told them, while the whole family broke down watching the scene.
The video went viral within days: more than 50 million views and 3 million likes on Instagram alone. No one expected the dogs to understand the farewell, but there they were, crying like any family member who doesn’t want to see the person they love leave.