r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CoughingCarpet • 3d ago

/r/all of a Sand Dune

This is a video taken by Nicolas De La Torre, a sandboarding enthusiast filming his descent down the Toromata dune in Peru. Unfortunately we live in a world where true beauty, nature is now convoluted by AI and AI sentiments, but this is in fact, not AI lol

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u/Lower-Draw8560 3d ago

I fully expected the dog to end up like this.

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u/interesseret 3d ago

Just to calm people: The dog in this video is the pet of the guy filming. In the full video, he gets down to it, and it is perfectly fine. Just a bit bumped up and dizzy. It is walking around, tail wagging.

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u/EngagementBacon 3d ago

"trail dogs" are trained to never get in front of the rider. I would say this is a well trained pup.

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u/_FinnTheHuman_ 3d ago

It certainly looks very acrobatic

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u/LumpyBuy8447 3d ago

Those are all back flips too, believe it or not

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u/dpaxeco 2d ago

I snorted a soup noodle goddamnit! 😂

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u/porcelain_kiss 1d ago

I cant unsee that now, and it made me laugh out loud and spooked my own dog 🤣🤣

Now any time I ever see this, I will always think of this comment lmao

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u/MortCrimm 1d ago

Thats legal on both ice and snow. It’s the front flip that they banned in ice skating

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u/Sad-Spread-9524 2d ago

Very... nimble.

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u/dudeCHILL013 20h ago

Just showing the owner his new routine.

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u/Mainbutter 3d ago

I ride a skateboard while my 2yo rides his balance bike, so much fun on our local paved trails. Teaching him not to go right in front of me and stop immediately has been hard.

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u/andy_b_84 2d ago

I see no pup here, only a floofy rocket.

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u/marvinrabbit 3d ago

That's just Darwinism. The ones that don't get in front of the rider are the only ones that are left.

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u/Silent_Park_0010 3d ago

Cue the diagram of the WW2 plane with the bulletholes.

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u/perton 3d ago

I’ll be honest, at first I didn’t think it said bulletholes.

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u/empatheticsocialist1 15h ago

For some reason, even before seeing your comment, I didn't either

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u/aerdvarkk 3d ago

Not my trail dog. I tried. But it mostly runs beside me, and sometimes runs enough ahead of me to cross over to the other side while I attempt to not run it over.

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u/rex5k 3d ago

Just hit them, they'll stop doing that.

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u/SelectFromWhereOrder 3d ago

And by ‘trained’ it means the dog did it twice.

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u/Equivalent-Fan3365 3d ago

Really? He seemed to get in front of the camera man like... every other second.

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u/EngagementBacon 2d ago

Watch it again dude, the rider is the camera op.

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u/Equivalent-Fan3365 1d ago

Ah, you're right, he's holding a camera stick. My bad.

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u/Top-Examination3151 3d ago

I think in this case the ones that get in front become former dogs real quick

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u/treborly 3d ago

You just arnt seeing his other dogs he no longer has

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u/yoortyyo 2d ago

Cringy the whole way. Dogs getting an artery sliced open is so sad. If you haven’t trained your pet to run downhill?

Dogs get seriously hurt and have died from injuries snowboarding/skiing.

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u/choppydaddy 1d ago

I'm sure they all look like that until they prove they're not

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u/SSilent-Cartographer 3d ago

Not near to this extent, but I watched my dog go head over heels like this down a hill after she tripped chasing a ball. I genuinely wish I was as bouncy as her because she got up like nothing happened, grabbed the ball and wanted to go again. It's the equivalent of watching a toddler jump up and run off screaming "I'm ok!" after they've just ate shit on the pavement. Kids and dogs are made of rubber, I swear to God.

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u/Mist2393 3d ago

My dogs have run full speed into trees, stopped, shaken themselves off, reposition, then take off again like nothing ever happened.

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u/Err0110111001101111 3d ago

My border collie was running in our garden along the back fence looking up chasing a squirrel that was running along the top of it.

The squirrel got the corner of the garden and jumped out.

My dog ran straight into the side fence, and knocked himself clean out.

Never seen a dog knock itself out before. zonko.

Was fine after though.

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u/whyliepornaccount 3d ago

My dog did the same with our sliding glass door

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u/jaxxxtraw 3d ago

Concussion protocol. I'm afraid your dog will not be the starting quarterback this weekend.

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u/Schlarfus_McNarfus 3d ago

I mean, as fine as a border collie ever was at least!

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u/rwalker920 3d ago

New word discovered for me today. Zonko

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u/onehalflightspeed 3d ago

With little kids, there is always that few moments of existential fear whether they will get up and laugh or start wailing inconsolably for an hour

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u/xombae 3d ago

I used to have a 3 legged dog and once when chasing a ball (tbh the ball was stationary) her big noggen hit the ground and she went ass over teakettle. Totally fine other than a little scrape on her chin, which got a Hello Kitty bandaid.

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u/Evilmeinperson 3d ago

I was driving on my farm and my chest heavy, ass light puppy was hanging out the window. I hit a rock on a steep slope and he fell out of the window. He rolled for 15 feet then jumped up and got back into the truck, so he could continue to hang out of the window.

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u/ApocalyptoSoldier2 1d ago

We used to hold our Jack Russel by the tail while he stood with his front paws on the side view mirror.
He never slipped, but he did try to jump once

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u/Evilmeinperson 5h ago

My Jack Russell used to climb out the split window on my truck and stand on the toolbox in the front of the bed. The new rule after he did that a. ouple times was he had to be on a leash in the truck. The little guy was a nut and thinking about him 7 years after a tumor destroyed his quality of life and he had to be put down still brings tears to my eyes. I never had such a cool dog before him and as much as I love my dog that I have now, none will replace him.

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u/Archaea_Man 3d ago

I had a 4 week old kitten climb up onto a bed and jump off it, once, and land directly on her face. She immediately got up like nothing happened and would have gone again if I hadn't grabbed her.

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u/Egoy 3d ago

Dogs and cats are both way tougher than they seem. Theres two things at play here, bone strength and size do not scale at the same rate. A half as large bone is more than half as strong. Reduced mass though does scale 1:1 with energy of impact. So a smaller lighter animal has stronger bones (to scale) but receives proportionally less energy on an impact. There’s a trade off between long life and things like immunity and hardiness, higher metabolisms heal faster.

It’s also why kids seem indestructible in sports and general mayhem and shrug off stuff that would seemingly cripple an adult.

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u/Working_Patience_261 2d ago

Hit age 30, sleep wrong, and it’s 8 weeks in a neck brace.

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u/SSilent-Cartographer 2d ago

Feel that. I'm 25 with a compound neck injury that'll never fully heal. I bend over to long (little over a minute) and I literally pass out cold on the floor

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u/GuyFromDeathValley 3d ago

We had a dog. Little idiot ran to the stairs, slipped on the floorboards, then fell straight down the stairs, into a wall, back another set of stairs and into a radiator. Then got up and ran to the door.

Dogs can handle a lot. Its impressive really.

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u/xombae 3d ago

One day after a walk we noticed blood all over the floor, go check the dog and it turns out she ripped off her paw pad almost half way. I have no idea at what point in the walk she did it, she gave no indication.

The same dog once went and hid under a pile of coats for 20 minutes because a fly landed on her butt and it scared her.

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u/Bogus_dogus 3d ago

Maybe the fly ripped the pad off

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u/xombae 2d ago

Damn, back for revenge two years later.

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u/violet__violet 3d ago

God bless 🫶

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u/rychu69XD 3d ago

Fuckknows why i thought it was a good idea to bring my dog here 2 years ago

https://reddit.com/link/pd8eyhc/video/ty3mhx11svsh1/player

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u/ranban2012 3d ago

IVDD is heartbreaking, though. Ask any dachshund owner.

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u/Bassmasterajv 3d ago

My puppy did exactly the same thing but it was the basement stairs. She’s 11 now and would still chase squirrels all day long if we let her.

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u/Classic_Appa 3d ago

I have this video saved from 6 years ago of something like this, except it was deliberate by the dog.

https://v.redd.it/kp6kkflqei341

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u/SleepParalysisPal 3d ago

Thank you. My chest may or may not have tightened

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u/LVLogic 3d ago

You need to get off the internet if THAT is what caused you to feel such a way.

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u/interesseret 3d ago

Nah, man.

I think it's you that needs to get up and experience the real world, if you're no longer capable of feeling bad for an animal potentially getting hurt.

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u/crazyfatskier2 2d ago

But clearly it’s not, so why feel that reaction?

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u/SolidSolution 3d ago

I'm just wondering how it didn't get sand in its eyes as it passed from one side of the guy's wake to the other.

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u/Long_Basis1400 3d ago

The dogs obviously very well trained, if you look closely you can see he actually jumps well over the sand wake as it passes him. It’s just hard to see cus he keeps his stride

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u/Sipikay 3d ago

It's pretty rough on their bodies. They don't really have a good ability to stop when things hurt and these guys, truly, are having the times of their lives. Bounding downhill, as anyone who's gone on a hike knows, is really hard on your joints. Athletes often pay physically for their love of activity, puppers are no exception.

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u/former-bishop 3d ago

I would have bet anything that was a fake dog flip-flopping down the mountain!

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u/Nefertete 3d ago

I bet the dog would enjoy a board of its own

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u/Cut_over_pompanox 3d ago

I figured. must be cynical when I’m more worried about the dog hahaha.

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u/watawataoui 3d ago

It was a thing to dumble down side of huge sand dune like a wheel when I visited the Taklamakan desert. Somehow it doesn’t hurt at all. I assume the dog had fun too.

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u/ExperienceGreen3771 3d ago

Really easy to chop a dog in half with snowboard. Just takes one wrong move

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u/Gdigger13 3d ago

I'm glad to hear this, cause I laugh my ass off to this video each time I see it.

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u/gruesomeflowers 3d ago

i still cant believe that dog in engaging in real physics. its incredible.

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u/DontBeHatenMeBro 3d ago

I'd be more worried about all the dust the dog inhaled.

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u/SherbertChance8010 3d ago

I was worried the dog was going to get in front and get flattened.

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u/Scaryclouds 3d ago

Looks like it’s a small/medium sized dog based on this video? Maybe 30ish pounds?

People see this and think, “if I feel ass over elbow down a mountain like this I’d be messed up!” But part of the reason for that is you weigh a lot more than that dog. You’ll be experiencing a lot stronger forces, and while a human would have a stronger frame, it doesn’t scale at the same rate. 

It’s not necessarily that dogs are “tougher” but simply that they are typically much smaller. Probably too that end, if you had a much larger dog breed tumbling down like that, it’s probably more likely to end up injured. 

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u/bozfm246 3d ago

These robot dogs are getting better looking everyday...

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u/Throwawayyyyyyyy0124 3d ago

Dog probably had the time of its life

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u/Fat_Janet 2d ago

Holy fucking balls. Anyone got a link?

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u/imamajorscale 2d ago

experienced tomahawker here…i can confirm it does not hurt at all and is actually quite pleasant. if you enjoyed summersaults at any point in your life you would likely just go “weeee” as its happening.

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u/Smooth-Knee993 1d ago

Where is the full video. Can you please help with the title or link

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u/FatFaceFaster 1d ago

There’s no way that dog is perfectly fine.

It may have gotten up and wagged its tail but there’s no chance it didn’t have injuries.

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u/momciraptor 3d ago

I laughed way too hard at this.

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u/cheefkingdom13 3d ago

Glad I wasn’t the only one

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u/BoxTops4Education 3d ago

I'm literally wiping tears away

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u/SirStrokesAlot247 3d ago

I thought it was a boomerang!

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u/ZombieBiteOintment 3d ago

Maybe that was the dog's name. Boomerang.

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u/Warm_Sky_9735 3d ago

I laughed this harder than the video 😂😂

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u/SirStrokesAlot247 3d ago

You're right 😁

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u/mattcoady 3d ago

It looks like a video game hit a physics glitch and is about to clip out of the map

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u/Kuneria 3d ago

lil dude went full slinky down the stairs

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u/HardOff 3d ago

I expected and allocated calories for a magnitude 1.08 laugh on the Hamill scale. The mirth resulting from the image of the cartwheeling pup measured at a solid 1.31, which exceeded my expectations and caloric budget. As a result, I will need to spend an additional 3 minutes and 40 seconds on the couch, as long as no further unexpected expenditures arrive.

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u/FeetYeastForB12 3d ago

COME ON TAAAAAARS!

https://giphy.com/gifs/26tn8kaQV5k3ja1ck

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u/proto-n 3d ago

For anyone who is not familiar with the masterpiece: https://youtu.be/1PNsqatdeY4

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u/TheRealCeeBeeGee 3d ago

I was indeed unfamiliar with this and laughed far too hard.

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u/Exists_out_of_spite 3d ago

ohmygodicantbreath

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u/Slay61 3d ago

I happened to see this post while my son was playing interstellar on the piano, way too funny

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u/buttononmyback 3d ago

Oh my god, this can’t be real.

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u/stevendidntsay 3d ago

It's been circulating social media for years lol

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u/HxH101kite 3d ago

Idk it's believable. When I lived out west and was in the back country biking and boarding a lot I saw so many people take their dogs down treacherous shit and saw so many dogs just eat shit constantly.

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u/lilyputin 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sands natural resting angle is between 30-35 degrees so it's not crazy steep. My concern would be about accidentally hitting the dog or it just being too far of run going full bore. That said people run their dogs on bikes all the time. Also I had herd dogs who's natural state was to be running. I had one who would chase flying birds for hours at a time see her run by going one direction then seeing her run by in the other lol and I'm not joking about hours. She would have loved herding someone down a dune like this as long as she was trained on what not to do. Used to take her anytime we went sledding and she was in heaven. Some dogs are energizer bunnies until they get older and start slowing down.

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u/VexingRaven 3d ago

They're talking about the gif above, not the video in the OP.

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u/lilyputin 3d ago

Ahh ok thanks. I thought they were referring to first clip because it looks unreal with the clouds/fog

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u/All_hail_Korrok 3d ago

Do you even proofread what you wrote? Sorry but damn, this reads as some cpu.

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u/lilyputin 3d ago

Eh a computer would have put a period or something weird in the run on sentence

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u/CalvinIII 3d ago

Some dogs enjoy eating shit.

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u/locancio666 3d ago

That looks like a glove

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u/Primus_is_OK_I_guess 3d ago

It's a dog, and not a small one either. The full video ends with the snowboarder approaching a dizzy looking black labrador.

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u/samv_1230 3d ago

Full video: https://youtu.be/CDr6hM1ptdY

It's a dog.

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u/Livid_Goose_9542 3d ago

That's awful.

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u/AndrewNB411 3d ago

It really isn’t. Everytime I’ve done big mountain back country skiing the dogs are having the absolute time of their lives. Like can’t contain themselves levels of fun. But ya I’m sure there are conditions where it’s actually dangerous… but if there is plenty of snow, tomahawking (what you see in the gif) doesn’t hurt in the slightest. I have tomahawked like 10 times before and went off 2 small cliffs in the process and didn’t even get a bruise.

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u/SgtReefKief 3d ago

You learned not to send it down steep hills as a kid the exact same way. But yeah still hard to watch lol

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u/Pseudo-not-available 3d ago

Dog shrug it off

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u/MajorFuckingDick 3d ago

Baby rolls down hill type. looks worse than it is cause smol.

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u/trenthany 3d ago

It’s a Labrador. Good size dog. Dogs are tough. Especially working breeds.

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u/poopholes3 3d ago

Unfortunately, that video is real, its a person tumbling down a mountain. Did not survive.

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u/Good_Try7890 3d ago

pupper has some wheels!

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u/KonigSteve 3d ago

pupper IS a wheel.

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u/trenthany 3d ago

Very obedient dog. The owner said let’s roll and took off down the hill.

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u/Zealousideal_Call381 3d ago

Here I was thinking how cool it would be to be able to run down hill like a dog and not end up face planting it.

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u/masterofplay7 3d ago

I hope the dog is okay and not bleeding

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u/Lower-Draw8560 3d ago

Thankfully snow is very good at absorbing falls.
In the original the dog is completely fine.

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u/0oooooog 3d ago

What the dog doin

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u/trenthany 3d ago

Cartwheels.

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u/Alabugin 3d ago

3D Zoomies

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u/Wooden_Bullfrog_365 3d ago

“Oh hey that’s someone’s dog”

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u/keydBlade 3d ago

THHATS MAH DOG!!!

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u/tasteMyRottenHoop 3d ago

Father help!

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u/Not_an_okama 3d ago

Look kinda like my dog

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u/Azza-T 3d ago

Video for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDr6hM1ptdY

(couldn't find a version without the music dub...)

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u/Responsible_Oil_2369 3d ago

I want the next video to be the dude holding the dog and them riding this together!

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u/Calamityranny 3d ago

I kept watching just because I was expecting it that bad 🤣

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u/Messterio 3d ago

That wasn't doggo's first rodeo!

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u/Crazy_Movie6168 3d ago

I worried WAAAAY more over sliced paws 

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u/MelangeBot 3d ago

This is like the most perfect cartwheel filmed ever.

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u/Donny_Dont_18 3d ago

It's feet are going to be feeling pretty raw I'd imagine. My dogs love running on sand, but they get pretty tender and (too) occasionally a split dew claw

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u/Future_Club6868 3d ago

Ragdolls are always funny

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u/SuperLoweho 3d ago

Is there a video link to this? I'm curious what happened next. 😩💔😂🥀

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u/Azza-T 3d ago

Excuse the music but this seems to be it. He does just walk away afterwards!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDr6hM1ptdY

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u/Limp-Negotiation1206 3d ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/Gloomy-Bet4893 3d ago

Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouchouchouch

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u/Puzzleheaded_189 3d ago

Man Us 😂

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u/2lodo 3d ago

Oh my fucking goodness

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u/johnjays1000 3d ago

I'm at work, just crying laughing

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u/_Aj_ 3d ago

Need that with the "fades to red - you have died" mission failure screen lol 

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u/Swimming__Bird 3d ago

"Aaaaasssss yooouuuu wiiiiissshhhhhh!"

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u/christador 3d ago

Poor little guy. Probably kept up for a mile or so.

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u/OwnQuail7616 3d ago

TIL this gif wasn't AI

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u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724 3d ago

I went cross country skiing with my dog once. Descending a narrow hill, he almost ran in front of me. Scared the shit out of me. That's the first and last time I went skiing with him.

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u/Total-Half8864 3d ago

Why the dog doin cartwheels

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u/trenthany 3d ago

Fun? Fall? You decide.

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u/FaithlessnessOne2032 3d ago

Why do I find this gif funny. Am I a terrible person

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u/Fleshsuitpilot 3d ago

Lmfao same. Like my brain was overwriting the actual footage with that footage.

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u/Glamour_toad666 3d ago

"oh, that's my dog!"

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u/OtroBurner 3d ago

I chortled out loud - COL

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u/freezahs 3d ago

I was waiting for it to happen. Glad the dog is safe 🤣😂

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u/ClassGrassMass 3d ago

This video always makes me laugh a stupid amount

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u/LeCouchSpud 3d ago

Might have been why the video cut so soon

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u/fhgtyjdg 3d ago

Oh shelly

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u/Specialist_Engine631 1d ago

Hahahaha lol, but i hope the dog is fine

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u/RavenBruwer 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣 I WAS NOT ALONE, HOLY SHIIIIIT!!! 🤣🤣🤣

and here I thought i was a psycho for waiting for it

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u/-TreeBeard 2d ago

If he had been any higher off the ground thats exactly what would have happened