Is there any love as pure as that between a dog and his boy? Or maybe we should adapt it to be “toddler’s best friend”. After watching a video like this, where it is clear how deeply the chocolate lab and this boy are connected, you will no longer wonder why dogs are called “man’s best friend”. Caring for an animal can teach children all sorts of valuable lessons about patience, kindness and personal responsibility. They learn empathy by picking up on the non-verbal cues of the animals in their house, and the love of a furry friend can be fundamental to their childhood. And with a dog as patient as the chocolate lab in this TikTok videothe lesson to draw is truly profound.

In this clip, we see a happy little boy playing with his dog, who is calmly taking care of himself on the couch. The dog can even remain completely still while the child places the inside of a rice cooker on its head as a cute little hat.

Now it is a well-behaved dog.

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As the dog looks pleadingly from the boy to his mother (taking the video), clearly not enjoying this little game of dress-up with kitchen utensils, the boy kisses the dog’s face and then gently and lovingly rests his head against the animal’s flank. It’s true love.

“The Dog: Is it nap time yet?” Prank a person in the comments.

“Come and get your cub,” says another, translating the animal’s expression.

“Our chocolate lab lets kids do just about anything and just sit there like, ‘Okay, if you insist,'” says a third.

We really don’t deserve dogs.

The Gentle Chocolate Lab

Labrador retriever tend to come in three different colors: black, brown and yellow. Black and brown (or chocolate) Labs have set coat colors but the same set of genetic markers, and Yellow Labs have a different set of genes that can override this first set and give the animal a yellow coat. Depending on the parents’ genes, a little more of purebred lab puppies may include dogs of all three colors.

(Really makes you wonder about these people who think they can just breed poodle-coated “Doodles” with Golden Retriever personalities every time they cross a Poodle and a Golden Retriever, doesn’t it?)

The relationship between your pet and your dog

To get such a well behaved dog around a toddler, make sure your dog is well trained long before you ever bring a baby into your house. Although most dogs have an instinctive understanding that human babies are in fact babies, and just like puppies they need gentle, special and patient treatment, the natural thing for dogs to do to correct their own pups is to give them a little pacifier , so you have to make sure they don’t try that move on a child.

And the training certainly goes both ways too. Just as a dog needs to understand that human babies are fragile, delicate things (more sensitive even than babies of their own species), young children and babies need to know that dogs are living beings that can experience pain. They must learn to “pet nicely” and otherwise treat the animals in their home with patience and respect.

Although they can probably fight a bit, like these two, especially once that the bond is secure.

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