A Siberian Husky with striking blue eyes stands indoors on a wooden floor in natural daylight. 0:57

When dad says "I love you," Mishka talks back

Mishka's dad tells her he loves her. Mishka, a Siberian husky with bright blue eyes, has a long and very loud reply ready. more

She stands on the wooden floor, looks up at him and lets go. Out comes a long husky howl with real vowels in it. It doesn't sound like barking. It sounds like an opinion.

A black and white husky on a wooden floor looks upward with her mouth open. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Mishka looks up at her dad and lets loose her reply.

Subtitles help with the translation, and most people hear the same thing. When he says he loves her, she seems to answer that she already knows. Then she gets to the point. She wants her mom.

Her dad has said she is a mama's girl, and that she lets the family know when she wants looking after. Here she makes that case at full volume. He calls her a good girl, and she answers with an even longer howl, which fans hear as a firm reminder that he's not her mommy.

A Siberian Husky with striking blue eyes stands indoors on a wooden floor in natural daylight. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Mishka's dad tells her he loves her.

The whole exchange is over in under a minute, and people quote it back to each other, stretching every vowel the way she does. He keeps saying the sweet things. She keeps saying hers, only louder, and neither one gives an inch.

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