Woman Revealing Why She Shows Only Half Her Face on Work Calls Melts Hearts

A dog owner has melted hearts online after a clip of her revealing why she shows only half her face at work meetings from home went viral on social media.

In a video shared on TikTok on Friday, under the username Relatablebonnie, the woman can be seen showing half her face on camera while nodding along to her colleagues, before moving the camera towards the other side of her face where her dog is headbutting her.

The viral clip came with a caption that says: "Why are you only showing half your face on our meeting?" Further down in the comments, the woman wrote that "depending on who it is I let him say hello too," adding that "he's always interested."

According to the American Psychological Association, the average dog can learn 165 words, including signals, and the "super dogs," those in the top 20 percent of dog intelligence, can learn up to 250 words.

But while they are able to learn this staggering amount of words, they are not really able to distinguish human speech, says the American Kennel Club (AKC).

When it comes to distinguishing an instruction word from a totally different nonsense word, dogs' brains process speech very quickly, on a similar timescale to humans. But when a nonsense word sounds just like an instruction one, they don't distinguish between them at all.

This means that dogs aren't listening to or learning words in the same way as adult humans. This kind of non-detailed phonetic recognition is also the way babies process speech up to the age of about 14 months and goes some way toward explaining why most dogs can learn only a small handful of words since a big vocabulary requires precision.

The viral video quickly attracted animal lovers from across the platform, receiving more than 1.7 million views and 254,500 likes so far.

One TikToker Fordlikethetruck88 commented: "My pup likes to join our meetings and my team loves it." And epurce2 wrote: "My professor would give my dog participation grades and comments bc he was always on my bed in class with me."

SarahInRealLife wrote: "Speaking only for myself as a hypothetical co-worker in a meeting with you, that would improve EVERY meeting." Heather McGee added: "I had a client in 2020 who would ask during every weekly meeting if I would call over my dog so she could say hi to him."

Another TikToker StargirlWithALibrary wrote: "Awww! but I would LOVE to see that on my screen!" while MncPSws20 posted: "Me at the meeting just for the dog." Kim McDonald added: "I would be upset if there was a dog that close by and we didn't get to see it."

Ks_867-5309 commented: "I just did a virtual interview with a cat on my lap, fighting to be on my shoulder."

Newsweek reached out to Relatablebonnie for comment. We could not verify the details of the case.