Dog trainer Jerri Scherff kept seeing a man in her neighborhood walking with a dog leash in his hand, but without a dog. After driving by multiple times, she decided to pull over and ask him why.

On Instagram, she shared a tearful video about their heartwarming exchange and grieving their dogs.

“Finally this morning I said, ‘Can I ask you something?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ ‘Did you lose your dog?’” Scherff says to the camera. She adds that he nodded to her, and she tearfully replied, “‘Me too.’ And then I just hugged him.”

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“He said ‘everyone makes fun of me for it, but I just miss him,’” Scherff says. “Anyway, so pray for that guy.”

In the video’s caption, Scherff writes that the two “hugged like we were passengers of a sinking ship. Bound together by tragedy…when I see him now I wave. And I say a little prayer for him that he would know comfort and peace in his grief. I could see it on his face how much he loved that dog.”

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