--- title: Bulldog Diesel Cardboard box: Viral Video description: Walking into walls is 100% worth it canonical: https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-11T20:37:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:18.476Z og:title: Absolutely Nothing Can Come Between This Bulldog and His Box og:description: Walking into walls is 100% worth it og:url: https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/ 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: Absolutely Nothing Can Come Between This Bulldog and His Box twitter:description: Walking into walls is 100% worth it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Absolutely Nothing Can Come Between This Bulldog and His Beloved Cardboard Box ## Video: Inside the Canine Mind [Watch (HLS stream): Inside the Canine Mind](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8) (2:08)  _Published 2009-09-11. Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 11, 2015 8:37 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 11, 2015 8:37 PM UTC Yesterday, we shared the story [of Rose](http://time.com/3991477/boston-terrier-dog-plays-with-balloon/), a Boston Terrier who showed incredible determination and poise while playing with a balloon. Today, we’d like to share the story of Diesel, an equally determined (albeit slightly less graceful) bulldog, who has demonstrated deep love for a cardboard box. He walks around for a solid three minutes with the box around his head, walking into walls and generally struggling to be at all functional. Eventually, his owners take a break from laughing at him to remove the box from his mouth. This seems heartless, but they don’t want him to hurt himself. Sadly, we never get to see Diesel attempt to sit in his box, like this other bulldog you might remember: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/"},"headline":"Absolutely Nothing Can Come Between This Bulldog and His Beloved Cardboard Box","datePublished":"2015-08-11T20:37:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:18.476Z","description":"Walking into walls is 100% worth it","url":"https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/","name":"Absolutely Nothing Can Come Between This Bulldog and His Beloved Cardboard Box"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside the Canine Mind","description":"Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dTemQHb7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-09-11T01:23:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3992863/bulldog-cardboard-box/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```