Golden Retriever Spends Friday Mornings Greeting Her Favorite Garbage Men
A Golden Retriever is going viral (and melting hearts everywhere) for spending her Friday mornings greeting her favorite garbage men in east Belfast.
For some garbage collectors in east Belfast, Friday is not only garbage collection day, but also Maddie day!
Maddie, the one-year-old Golden Retriever, is brightening up the lives of these garbage collectors every Friday morning by waiting for them to arrive and asking for pets.
“She loves seeing us, and waits for us every Friday morning to come around,” One of the garbage men, Mark Doran, tells BBC. “She scrapes the door until she can get out, she can hear the lorry coming up the street and stuff.”
Another garbage man, Nathan Wilson, who has been friends with Maddie for over a year since the pooch was a little pup, says “first time we seen her, [it was] just brilliant.”
Wilson also tells BBC, “I think she loves everyone. But I think she likes us a wee bit more.”
Maddie’s videos with her “blue bin friends” have gone viral on social media. On her Instagram page, Maddie has three videos of her greeting the garbage men with a combined total of almost 900,000 likes.
The videos all show Maddie at their garden either waiting for the garbage men to pet her and give her some love or her excitedly running around as she sees the garbage men approaching.
While Maddie makes other friends, like the postmen, or just the neighbors in general, the garbage men in the area seem to really have a special place in Maddie’s heart.
As a matter of fact, the pooch even got her own vest to match with them!
Katelin Fiddis, whose family own Maddie, tells BBC just how much the dog adores the garbage men. She said, “It’s not just her tail that wags, it’s her whole bum that goes – she just loves it.”
And while it’s true that Maddie makes these garbage men’s day brighter, Fiddis said it’s the same for Maddie.
“They’re very busy obviously doing their big rounds but the fact that they would dedicate 20-30 seconds to say ‘hello’, you can just tell that it makes Maddie’s day and she’s got a wee smiley face and a waggy tail.”
Now, Maddie has also started putting a smile on the faces of thousands of people all over the world thanks to her viral videos.
Fiddis said, “We’re getting comments from people saying ‘I’ve had a really, really hard week and I’ve just seen this video of Maddie and it’s completely changed my outlook and I feel so much better’.”
