--- title: Dog Tastes Lemon description: He'll help get you through the day canonical: https://time.com/3738966/dog-tasting-lemon/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-11T15:17:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:31.748Z og:title: This Dog Has the Best Reaction to Tasting a Lemon og:description: He'll help get you through the day og:url: https://time.com/3738966/dog-tasting-lemon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Dog Has the Best Reaction to Tasting a Lemon twitter:description: He'll help get you through the day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Dog Has the Best Reaction to Tasting a Lemon by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 11, 2015 3:17 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 11, 2015 3:17 PM UTC Move over, Gene Kelly, this dog is the Internet’s new dancing star. YouTube is filled with videos of people doling out citrus to unsuspecting babies, but no human baby can compare to this puppy taking a first lick of a lemon. This fluff ball excitedly goes in for a taste of the fruit, but the overpowering sour flavor gives him a start that has him tap dancing across the kitchen floor. Of course, being a golden retriever, the pup can’t help but go back for a second taste, yet somehow expects a different result, which just makes it all the more hilarious. Don’t try this at home, though, as it should be noted that the[ ASPCA says](https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/lemon) that lemons can be toxic to dogs. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3738966/dog-tasting-lemon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3738966/dog-tasting-lemon/"},"headline":"This Dog Has the Best Reaction to Tasting a Lemon","datePublished":"2015-03-11T15:17:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:31.748Z","description":"He'll help get you through the day","url":"https://time.com/3738966/dog-tasting-lemon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","viral","dance","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3738966/dog-tasting-lemon/","name":"This Dog Has the Best Reaction to Tasting a Lemon"}}]}] ```