When His Person Sits On His Blankie, This Dog Plans A Very Polite Heist

The cleaning lady had laid Oslo's fluffy blankie out neatly on the couch, right in the spot people use for sitting. So his person sat on it. Oslo, a white dog with chocolate-brown ears, noticed within seconds. He walked over, sniffed the edge of the blanket beside his person's leg, then lifted his head and held a long, flat stare, a look that, by his person's own reading, meant he was "wondering if I am stupid."

Then he got to work, very slowly. Oslo took a corner of the blankie in his teeth and simply held it. No yanking, no growling, just a good twenty seconds of standing there with his blanket in his mouth and his eyes sliding sideways toward the person on top of it.

His person tried diplomacy. A hand patted the blanket to show him it was right there for the taking, followed by a bolder idea: "Just share it. You can share it with me." Oslo set his front paws up on the couch and seemed to consider it for about one second. Then he grabbed the blankie and pulled it clean out from underneath.

His victory lap was pure joy. He hauled the blankie onto the rug, shook it, pounced on it, burrowed his nose into the folds, and finally flopped down with it tucked between his front paws, exactly where he felt it belonged.

Over on @osloandcompany, plenty of people sided with him. "'you can share it with me' he looked so offended," one viewer wrote. Born with a cleft palate and hand raised from his first days, Oslo has grown into exactly the dog his person once described: "he's the main character and we're all just living in it."