--- title: Dachshund Dog Plays Hockey: Video description: Crusoe the celebrity dachshund plays hockey in new video. canonical: https://time.com/4285465/watch-a-dog-play-hockey/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-07T18:12:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:27.092Z og:title: Watch a Dog Play Hockey og:description: Looks fetching in this costume og:url: https://time.com/4285465/watch-a-dog-play-hockey/ 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 Play Hockey twitter:description: Looks fetching in this costume twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Dog Play Hockey  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 7, 2016 6:12 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 7, 2016 6:12 PM CUT Dogs can’t play hockey, right? Well, a dachshund has shown that it’s not im_paws_sible! A video on Facebook of a dog wearing a costume that has arms holding a hockey stick sticking out in the front has racked up more than 19.4 million views and has been shared 980,000 times since it was uploaded to Facebook on April 6. It is the latest [wacky getup](http://www.celebritydachshund.com/crusoe/costumes-outfits/ "undefined") worn by the dog, known online as “Crusoe, the [celebrity dachshund](http://www.celebritydachshund.com/ "undefined").” The canine and “author” of a _New York Times_ bestseller has entertained his more than 915,000 Facebook followers and 166,000 Instagram followers with photos of himself on stilts, in a scuba diving suit, and in a skunk costume, just to name a few of the outfits. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4285465/watch-a-dog-play-hockey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4285465/watch-a-dog-play-hockey/"},"headline":"Watch a Dog Play Hockey","datePublished":"2016-04-07T18:12:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:27.092Z","description":"Looks fetching in this costume","url":"https://time.com/4285465/watch-a-dog-play-hockey/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/4285465/watch-a-dog-play-hockey/","name":"Watch a Dog Play Hockey"}}]}] ```