After their dad was sadly forced to put down their 15-year-old maltese, his family decided to cheer him up with a new dog.

“We all knew that we wanted a new puppy but would have to wait awhile for my father to heal,” his son Philip Michaels wrote on YouTube. “Then one day my father had come home and showed me pictures of a dog he had seen in the city, while on his lunch break at work. It was a havanese.”

The dad’s show of uninhibited joy quickly went viral, and the new pup Monty was instantly a family favorite.

Check out the awesome video below.