--- title: Dog: Video Shows Smart Dog Fetching His Brother for Owner description: Watch this young German Shepherd perform a very unusual trick for his owner: he'll retrieve his brother when his owner tells him to. canonical: https://time.com/4424685/this-clever-dog-will-actually-fetch-his-brother-on-command/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-26T19:47:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:49.054Z og:title: This Dog Can Fetch So Much More Than Toys or Newspapers og:description: Watch a young German Shepherd perform a very helpful trick for his owner. og:url: https://time.com/4424685/this-clever-dog-will-actually-fetch-his-brother-on-command/ 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 Can Fetch So Much More Than Toys or Newspapers twitter:description: Watch a young German Shepherd perform a very helpful trick for his owner. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Clever Dog Will Actually Fetch His Brother on Command  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 26, 2016 7:47 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 26, 2016 7:47 PM UTC [Some dogs](http://time.com/4396418/dog-fireworks/?iid=sr-link1) retrieve tennis balls, squeaky toys, or maybe the errant [newspaper](http://time.com/4398775/puppy-newspaper-struggle/). But this clever canine beats them all: his special trick is fetching his brother. YouTube user D Duff uploaded a brief video of German Shepherd Jack to the video platform Monday, and though it’s less than 20 seconds, it’s already racked up more than a million views. “My younger German Shepherd will fetch his brother if you tell him to,” the caption explains. “Go get your brother,” you can hear the owner say, and off Jack trots. A few moments later, two German Shepherds reappear. If you look closely, you can see that the first one, Jack, actually brings the second one around to the owner by gripping his brother’s collar in his teeth. “Good boy!” says the owner. Agreed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4424685/this-clever-dog-will-actually-fetch-his-brother-on-command/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4424685/this-clever-dog-will-actually-fetch-his-brother-on-command/"},"headline":"This Clever Dog Will Actually Fetch His Brother on Command","datePublished":"2016-07-26T19:47:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:49.054Z","description":"He's his brother's keeper","url":"https://time.com/4424685/this-clever-dog-will-actually-fetch-his-brother-on-command/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/4424685/this-clever-dog-will-actually-fetch-his-brother-on-command/","name":"This Clever Dog Will Actually Fetch His Brother on Command"}}]}] ```