Dogs really are man’s best friend. And according to one Florida woman, they ended up protecting her and her college roommates from a potentially dangerous man before anyone knew what was going on.
TikTok creator Alexa (@alexaabney69) shared a storytime about a scary experience with a previous roommate’s boyfriend, and her video got more than 34,300 views.
She starts by explaining how she lived with her best friend and a random roommate. The roommate had a boyfriend who drifted in and out of the apartment, usually heading straight upstairs without interacting much.
How The Dogs’ Reactions Led Them To Dig Deeper
One night, Alexa and her friend were in the kitchen with their two dogs when the boyfriend sat down with a steak. “He was like, ‘Oh, can I offer the dogs a piece of my steak?’” she recalls. He had never met them before, so she says she didn’t think much of it.
But the dogs wanted nothing to do with him. “Both of our dogs were, like, really weirdly distant from him,” she says. They wouldn’t take the food at all, which she found odd because “both of our dogs are very food driven.”
The moment struck both roommates as strange. These dogs showed no hesitation around new people, so something felt off.
So they decided to look him up.
“We did some digging,” she says. What they found made everything click. First, they learned he was on house arrest because he “beat a man with a bat outside of a Wendy’s because that’s who his baby mama was cheating on him with.” Then they saw his name again—on the national sex offender registry.
“No wonder our dogs got, like, a weird feeling around him,” she says. “Because he was a creep.”
She ends the video with the kind of advice that only comes from hindsight: “Maybe set some boundaries with your roommates. Maybe say, ‘Hey, don’t date a guy with an ankle monitor on.’ … ‘Don’t date a guy who beat a man with a bat outside of Wendy’s.’ … ‘Don’t date a guy who’s on the national sex offender list.’”
Can Dogs Really Pick Up On Someone’s Energy?
Researchers say dogs often pick up on things like body language, scent, and the emotional cues we emit without realizing.
Dogs read unpredictability the same way they read excitement or sadness. When someone carries tension, anxiety, or aggression, the body releases signals that dogs can smell. Their senses are tuned to shifts in voice, posture, and movement, so when a person feels unstable or agitated, they leave a different chemosignal, and dogs learn how to respond to it.
It’s the same way they understand your moods. When you come home smiling, they run to you because they know what’s coming next. If you enter the house silent and stiff, walking straight to your room, they understand something is wrong and keep their distance.
Over time, dogs who live with people who are chronically stressed often carry that stress too. They pick up our patterns faster than we think.
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Commenters Share Their Thoughts
Some viewers immediately sided with the dogs.
“The dogs ALWAYS know,” one person wrote. Alexa replied, “they always know its crazy.”
Another viewer joked, “WE have ALL done the Wendy’s thing,” referring to the boyfriend’s explanation.
Others wondered if the roommate knew the man’s past. “Did the roommate know what he had done?” one person asked, but Alexa didn’t respond.
BroBible has reached out to Alexa via TikTok direct messages for more information.