mishka

Meet an Mishka, the dog who can say 'I love you' 

the first word  he said was “I love you.” Those are the three words that eventually changed a dog owner’s life, not just because that was what he said to his dog, but because that was what his dog said to him. The YouTube video of a 9 year old Siberian Husky named Mishka howling something that sounds like, “I love you”.

At first we just howled to get her going, wolf-style. It was a form of communication/bonding between us. Then we noticed after time that she was mimicking us in tone and syllables. We noticed that she was really good at repeating ‘I love you’ and said it to her often. She seems like she is actually expressing affection for us when she says it, odd as that sounds. For years she would say it to us when our friends came over as a party trick.

It’s clear that people love Mishka just as much as she loves them, and she has over 262 thousand “likes” on Facebook to prove it. Why are people so drawn to a dog that seems like it’s trying to communicate through human language?

The nine year old specialises in saying 'I love you', 'hello', 'I'm hungry' and responding 'no' when asked if she is stupid.