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A dog's plan to get back inside his house—after accidentally locking himself out—has delighted viewers across the internet.
Harley, a shiba inu, had managed to leave his house by the front door but soon realized that he would need the help of a human to ring its doorbell and get back inside. The dog was captured "asking" a passerby for help on his owner Jasmine Orta's outdoor security camera.
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After he caught his savior's attention through barks and whines, Harley led the passing neighbor to his front door; she quickly understood that her task in that moment was to ring the doorbell for him.
Orta, who is based in Dallas, shared the security-camera footage to TikTok (@jasmine_orta) on April 23. The short clip featured the moment when Orta opened the doorbell to Harley and the woman who had helped him, and the dog's instant jump into the house while his owner thanked the passerby.
A voice-over said: "[Point of view] your dog gets out and hunts down a human to ring the doorbell for him."
"Harley always finds a way to come back home," Orta added.
The woman whom Harley had enlisted the support of could be heard humorously asking him how he had "got out".
The shiba inu breed is renowned for its alert and attentive temperament, which stems from its past employment in Japan as a hunter. The dogs have been growing in popularity across the U.S. for the past few decades.
Of the 895,000-plus TikTok users that have viewed Orta's post, more than 700 have left comments voicing their amusement at the candid moment and their funny takes on how Harley made it back indoors.
"Me being kidnapped because I followed a dog," one user, @m_ng7, wrote.
Another, @getyalickback4379, added: "He say girl come tell these people to let me in."
A third user, @ty_babie, shared: "He said you asking too many questions just ring the thing and skedaddle."
"It's a good thing the neighbor understood 'dog' and helped him," @josiejones1908 posted.
Newsweek reached out to @jasmine_orta for more information via TikTok, where she regularly posts about Harley and the two other shiba inus that she has. The pet owner pokes fun at her large family of dogs on her social-media account, where she describes herself as being a "mother of shiba inus."
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