--- description: Watch 7-year-old Phoenix take her Shiba Inu to the playground title: Girl Proves Hanging Out With Dogs Always Beats Hanging Out With People image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Little Girl Just Proved Hanging Out With Dogs Always Beats Hanging Out With People by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 9, 2015 5:43 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 9, 2015 5:43 PM CUT Want to see something unbearably, disgustingly cute? Of course you do. Allow us to recommend this video of a 7-year-old girl named Phoenix taking her Shiba Inu, Kitsu, to a playground. Phoenix, who hosts a delightful [video blog](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5y4i69GDn8XFbdqtA7nqgw/videos "undefined"), clearly has a very special friendship with her pup, as evidenced by how much pure, unadulterated fun they have together in this video. They swing on the swings! They slide on the slide! They spin on the spinny thing! The soundtrack, as you’ll notice, somehow manages to make the whole thing even cuter. [According to](http://www.missobservation.com/my-shiba-inu-and-i-go-to-the-park/ "undefined") Phoenix: “Kitsu did not like the spinny thingy, or the slides. But she loved the swings. The swings are my favorite too.” If you want to see more of this friendship, here’s Kitsu performing tricks for Phoenix: If anyone knows of anything cuter than this, please let us know. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026750/shiba-inu-playground/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026750/shiba-inu-playground/"},"headline":"This Little Girl Just Proved Hanging Out With Dogs Always Beats Hanging Out With People","datePublished":"2015-09-09T17:43:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:27.979Z","description":"Watch 7-year-old Phoenix take her Shiba Inu to the playground","url":"https://time.com/4026750/shiba-inu-playground/","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/4026750/shiba-inu-playground/","name":"This Little Girl Just Proved Hanging Out With Dogs Always Beats Hanging Out With People"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Meet Boo. Is This the Internet's Cutest Dog?","description":"Boo, a five-year-old Pomeranian with over 1.6 million followers on Facebook, has just released his first book","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6qldqUSm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-09-12T16:19:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6qldqUSm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4026750/shiba-inu-playground/","duration":"PT1M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4026750/shiba-inu-playground/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```