might as well post my other draft for yall🤣😭

Okay, so I wasn’t planning to post this one. I had a perfectly normal, polished video of my golden retriever puppy trying to catch a tennis ball in slow motion. It was wholesome. It was cute. It had the perfect background music. You know, Instagram-ready, golden-hour lighting and everything. But then I remembered this other clip—the chaotic, unedited, borderline embarrassing one—and thought… might as well post my other draft for y’all 🤣😭

Let me set the scene.

It’s a peaceful Saturday morning. I’m in the backyard with my new golden retriever puppy, Toast (yes, like the bread—don’t judge me). He’s about 10 weeks old, still figuring out how legs work. I’m trying to get him to “sit” for a treat while recording with one hand. Toast is doing his best. I toss him the treat, and instead of catching it like a normal dog, he does a full backflip. I swear, it looked like a stunt from a superhero movie… only in slow, uncoordinated puppy form.

He lands flat on his fuzzy butt, looks at me like “Why would you do this to me?” and then waddles off screen—directly into the kiddie pool. Splash. Soaked. And still chewing the treat. The level of determination? Inspiring.

I was dying laughing behind the camera. My neighbor even peeked over the fence and said, “Everything okay over there?” Ma’am, you try filming a baby golden retriever with the attention span of a gnat while avoiding puppy puddles and rogue chew toys.

Anyway, the video’s a mess. The angles are terrible, my laugh sounds like a goose choking, and there’s a dramatic zoom on my dog’s confused face. But honestly, it kind of captures the chaos and joy of living with a puppy better than the “perfect” video ever could.

So yeah. This is the other draft. The one where Toast is a hot mess. Where I’m a hot mess. Where nothing goes as planned, but somehow, everything is funnier, cuter, and weirder than I could’ve expected.

If you’re considering getting a golden retriever puppy, just know: they are equal parts sunshine and mayhem. Toast has already chewed through one slipper, three paper towel rolls, and somehow got ahold of my AirPods case (don’t ask). But he’s also the sweetest little soul, with eyes that say, “I love you and I might also destroy your living room.”

So here it is, internet. My other draft. Not picture-perfect, not aesthetic, but 100% real life with a golden retriever puppy.

If you’ve got chaotic pet moments, please share them. Let’s normalize the bloopers. Because behind every cute dog post, there’s a dozen clips of pure puppy nonsense.

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