Meet Maverick— a big-hearted dog who loves making friends with people and pets alike.
“He is a super sweet dog. Super loving,” Lilly Ann Flores, Maverick’s owner.
However, when it comes to Halloween figurines, Maverick’s not taking any chances.
The other day, Maverick was at home with his family in Texas when he unexpectedly caught sight of some slightly eerie new arrivals out front — a creepy(-ish) collection of cardboard-cut-out cats.
It turned out that Flores had placed the cats there the night before Halloween. It wasn’t meant to be particularly scary, of course, but Maverick apparently hadn’t gotten the message.
Maverick was stunned when he saw the cutout cats.
“When I turned around, he was standing frozen like that,” Flores said. “I died laughing. I’ve never seen him do that before”
It’s impossible to say for certain exactly what was going through Maverick’s head at the time, but it does appear that he is actually “pointing” — an instinct some pups display when trying to alert their owners to something of interest.
Maverick was, in other words, merely trying to inform his family about the spooky cat situation.
The cardboard cutouts were not a real threat. It’s just spooky season, that’s all.
“I think [the cats] just caught him off guard,” Flores said.
Regardless, Maverick’s family still has his back against scary things, real or imagined — just as he has theirs.
