--- title: This Toddler and Neighbor Dog Know How to Play Perfect Fetch description: A Minnesota toddler has a new "best friend" in a friendly dog who plays fetch from over a fence — and their video is now viral. canonical: https://time.com/5343630/toddler-dog-fetch/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-19T20:37:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:57.401Z og:title: Toddler and a Dog Charm Thousands With Game of Fetch og:description: A fence is no barrier for these two friends og:url: https://time.com/5343630/toddler-dog-fetch/ 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: Toddler and a Dog Charm Thousands With Game of Fetch twitter:description: A fence is no barrier for these two friends twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Toddler and Neighboring Dog Who Have a Great Game of Fetch Going Charm Thousands  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 19, 2018 8:37 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 19, 2018 8:37 PM UTC The internet has fallen in love with a dynamic toddler-and-dog duo. Video of their acrobatic game of over-the-fence fetch has gone viral, leading ABC News to check in with the Minnesota mom who filmed it all. According to [ABC](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/stop-watch-toddler-dog-play-fetch-fence/story?id=56692769), the toddler in the video is a friend of Erin Richter’s son. And [the dog](http://time.com/5343200/pug-mug-shot/)? That’s their neighboring pooch Dozer, a mainstay in their lives. The pup is apparently no stranger to playing this type of fetch, either. “We think it is so crazy the video is getting so much attention because we play catch every day with Dozer so this is our normal,” Richter told _Good Morning America_. “But we love that it is making everyone smile.” When the video was shared on Twitter by the two-year-old’s dad Chad Nelson, it quickly captured everyone’s heart as they watched the boy toss the ball over the wooden fence, where an excited Dozer would promptly find it, pick it up and drop it back into their yard to continue the game. The pure joy on both the toddler and Dozer’s part is a pleasure to behold, and as Nelson noted, now both child and dog have a new “best friend.” > [](https://twitter.com/CMNelsonPhoto/status/1019716405401440256) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5343630/toddler-dog-fetch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5343630/toddler-dog-fetch/"},"headline":"Toddler and Neighboring Dog Who Have a Great Game of Fetch Going Charm Thousands","datePublished":"2018-07-19T20:37:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:57.401Z","description":"Friendship over everything","url":"https://time.com/5343630/toddler-dog-fetch/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"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/5343630/toddler-dog-fetch/","name":"Toddler and Neighboring Dog Who Have a Great Game of Fetch Going Charm Thousands"}}]}] ```