This Black Lab Double-Checks Before She'll Fetch Her Halloween Costume

Mango stands on the couch looking straight into the camera, black Lab ears soft, like she already has a plan. She only needs one thing from the room: a yes.

The question lands first. Her people at @mangotheblacklab wrote, "Do you want to see my Halloween costume?"

She drops to the wood floor next, still staring up, and checks again — "Wait. You do?" — before she will move an inch. Only then does she turn, trot down the hall, and call over her shoulder that she is going to get it.

A beat later she is back in yellow-and-black stripes, soft wings at her sides, and two little antennae bobbing over her forehead. She looks up one more time: "Here it is! I'm a bee. What do you think?"

The costume fits. The antennae stay put. And Mango keeps waiting on the answer, the same soft stare she used to make sure anyone wanted the reveal at all.