--- title: Corgi Puppy Scared to Go Down Stairs: Viral Video description: His name is Peanut Butter and he's only nine weeks old canonical: https://time.com/3975826/corgi-puppy-scared-stairs/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-28T20:56:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:18.087Z og:title: No One Has Struggled Like This Tiny Corgi Puppy Trying to Go Down Stairs og:description: His name is Peanut Butter and he's only nine weeks old og:url: https://time.com/3975826/corgi-puppy-scared-stairs/ 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: No One Has Struggled Like This Tiny Corgi Puppy Trying to Go Down Stairs twitter:description: His name is Peanut Butter and he's only nine weeks old twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # No One Has Struggled Like This Tiny Corgi Puppy Trying to Go Down Stairs > Sponsored content. 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His owner Alvin Hsu posted the above clip [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player%5Fembedded&v=HQPD4BVOd4c), which shows the then 9-week-old puppy tackling some very intimidating carpeted steps. Hsu tries to be encouraging and positive, coaxing Peanut Butter to complete the task and offering reassuring compliments when he gets down one step. He manages to get down one more, but mostly because he slipped. At that point, Peanut Butter started pacing anxiously and decided he’d had enough for the day. So yes, baby corgis can make pretty much anything impossibly cute. ## Transcript >> Henry. >> Henry. >> Henry. >> Henry. >> Okay. The mission of the Duke Canine Cognition Center-- >> One, two, three, go. >> is to understand dog Psychology in a way that people really haven't been looking at dogs until very recently. Dogs have shared an evolutionary history with us over the last 10, 000 or 15, 000 years at least. They solve problems more like we do, in many cases, more like we do than our closest relatives, Chimpanzees and Bonobos. We wanna study people's pets because there's no dog on the planet that's more sophisticated than a dog that has to manipulate or understand what its owner wishes, and what its owner is trying to get it to do. >> Henry. >> One of the games that we are presenting is a very simple game to try to understand how dogs understand our gestural communication. >> Here we go. Good job, Henry. >> The question is how do dogs understand that information and how do they use it? We wanna understand what, is the effect of domestication on dog psychology. >> We'll let them meet and then we could know, and then maybe he'll calm down. >> Hello. This is Bruno. >> Why is it that some breeds solve problems differently than others? >> Where is it? I don't have it. >> Since he's doing so good we're just gonna use his gaze or which cup he's standing closest to as his choice. >> The goal of all the research is really to understand what is it about our species that is so unique or different? >> Bruno! [ unk ] or dad? Boy, this is crazy business you're making me do. He's like, why don't you just give me the food? Bruno! Okay bye, Bruno. >> Bye, Bruno! >> Bye! Thanks for coming! Here you go-- one more for the road, Bruno, one more for the road. There you go big guy. 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