--- title: Dog Loses Fight Against Minions Toy: Video description: This tiny Shichon just wanted to play canonical: https://time.com/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-03T15:36:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:00.705Z og:title: Watch a Dog Lose an Unfortunate Fight With a Minion Toy og:description: This tiny Shichon just wanted to play og:url: https://time.com/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/ 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: Watch a Dog Lose an Unfortunate Fight With a Minion Toy twitter:description: This tiny Shichon just wanted to play twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Dog Lose an Unfortunate Fight With a Minion Toy ## 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 Sep 3, 2015 3:36 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 3, 2015 3:36 PM UTC When Minions aren’t causing [utter chaos](http://time.com/3983182/inflatable-minion-dublin/) on busy roads, they’re apparently beating up on dogs. In the clip above, you’ll see [Arne Doodle](https://instagram.com/arnedoodle/), a one-year-old Shichon, attempt to engage in some friendly play with an inflatable Minion toy. The toy, however, does not keep things friendly. If you’re unfamiliar with the Shichon dog breed, here’s what Wikipedia [says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuchon) about it: “The Zuchon is also known as a Shichon, teddy bear dog, or fuzzy wuzzy puppy.” Yes, that’s what the entry really says. How _dare_ that evil Minion mess with a fuzzy wuzzy puppy. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/"},"headline":"Watch a Dog Lose an Unfortunate Fight With a Minion Toy","datePublished":"2015-09-03T15:36:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:00.705Z","description":"This tiny Shichon just wanted to play","url":"https://time.com/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/","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/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/","name":"Watch a Dog Lose an Unfortunate Fight With a Minion Toy"}}]},{"@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/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4021541/dog-fights-minion-toy/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```