Puppy brings his ripped stuffy to dad, who learns to sew

The family's video calls it an emergency, and in a house this full of dogs, it got treated like one. Goose, a golden retriever puppy, had a big yellow plush dog with a hole in its back and white stuffing poking out, and he carried the toy, almost as big as he is, through the kitchen and dropped it into his dad's lap on the couch.

"Dad had no idea how to fix it...," the on-screen text admits, before giving the reason he was going to try anyway: "But it was his favorite stuffy since day one..."

Day one wasn't very long ago. Goose joined the Moriarty family in May as a foster puppy, introduced alongside his brother, Rooster, as "our 2 newest foster puppies." About a week later, the family announced that Goose was staying. "We always said if we foster failed it would have to be a perfect match… and this was it," they wrote on TikTok, adding that he "bonded so fast with our boys it was a no brainer." Rooster went to good friends in the area, so the brothers could still grow up together.

Since then, Goose has mostly been the one doing the learning. He has spent time with a trainer, and in June the family joked that he was "learning fast" and "definitely spending too much time with Mav," the family's service dog. This time, the lesson belonged to dad.

He studied a hand-sewing tutorial on his laptop, opened a kit packed with spools of thread and went to work on the seam with a needle and yellow thread, while Goose sat pressed against his side, eyes on the needle, at one point resting his head on the toy as the hole closed.

"Pet parents would move mountains if they had to…," the family wrote with the video. Dad didn't need a mountain, just a needle, a tutorial and his first try at sewing. When it was done, the toy had a puckered line of yellow stitches across its back, and Goose curled up on the couch with his chin resting on the stuffy he had carried in torn.

To see more of Goose and the rest of the pack, follow @imbluethesiberian on Instagram.