A golden retriever named Potato living his worst nightmare—being stuck at home with the spare human—turned to an item from his dad to seek comfort during his absence that left viewers sobbing.
Potato lives with his two owners, but one tends to top the list as his favorite time-and-time again, his dad. Meanwhile, his mom, who is known on TikTok as user @nikkikhrphl, is the "spare human."
His dad recently went away for three days, which his mom told Newsweek via TikTok is a pretty normal amount of time when he goes away on a business trip or on a guy's trip. And each time he's gone, Potato starts a meltdown.
An August 15 TikTok video showed Potato already devastated after not seeing his dad for eight hours. It was only the first of three days his favorite person would be away from the h