A parade, a puppy and a dog who simply stopped walking
The Pet Collective's newest Short has viewers praising whoever picked him up without a word of argument.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 119,838 views a day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (13,997).
Dog Stops Walking During Parade
Somewhere along a parade route, one dog decided he had marched far enough. "Dog Stops Walking During Parade" does exactly what its title says. The Short is credited to a viewer named Sofía F. and tagged as a golden retriever puppy, and its caption gives him a line of pure resignation about being finished with parades for good.
Nine hours after it went up, the clip was close to 70,000 views. A Short on The Pet Collective usually ends its whole first day near 14,000. The comment section is small but lively, and it already holds about three times the comments a Short here collects in a usual first day.
Those comments are mostly about the human in the scene. The most popular one admires how the handler scooped the dog up with no hesitation and no negotiation, as if this had happened before. Another viewer points out that other dogs in the procession were being carried too. Some notice the little booties on his paws, and one remembers a goat that pulled the same stunt at a parade.
The dog had company on Thursday's shelf. The same day brought a Halloween safety guide in the Pet Pointers series, a test of flotation vests worn by Finley and Coco, and a phone that fell into the ocean and filmed the fish swimming past. The parade dog has outpaced all of them. Only Wednesday's bird stealing a bite of a man's taco, posted for National Taco Day with a day's head start, has more views so far.
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What viewers say
The way the handler just accepted his fate and carried him like a royal baby — no hesitation, no negotiation. That dog has clearly pulled this move before 😂
@thebillionairecat1See it on YouTubeHe said Nah you didnt tell me there was gonna be this much walking. Im done.
@metalcorequeenSee it on YouTubeThere's actually a few others being carried, so it's likely he knew there was no getting that pup to continue without being carried
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My goat did that during a parade
@3katfoxSee it on YouTubeThere’s always one in every crowd! 😂🎉❤
@KellyHutchison-e4pSee it on YouTubeRelatable
@kingkazma3246See it on YouTubeThe rebel without a cause
@mcr3105See it on YouTubeA very kind man.
@ellylmecaeSee it on YouTubeBe true to yourself ❤
@supaspySee it on YouTubePrecious
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- Channel
- The Pet Collective
- Subscribers
- 9,580,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 8,723,050
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,064,937 (on a normal day: 1,388,814)
- Video published
- October 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 67,722 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 119,838
The numbers
A short clip of one stubborn dog ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day for Shorts, and it pulled in a busier comment section than usual.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which year was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held in New York?
Macy's employees staged the first parade on Thanksgiving Day 1924, and the famous giant balloons arrived three years later, in 1927.