--- title: Dog Appears to Fly Downstairs in Hilarious Viral Video description: A viral video of one very fearless dog has captivated the masses on TikTok. In user @BraydenBushaw's post, one pet shows its owner who is... canonical: https://time.com/5746703/dog-stairs-video/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-09T20:21:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:07.013Z og:title: Dog Fearlessly Flying Down the Stairs Is One Way to Approach Life og:description: Going downstairs is for regular dogs og:url: https://time.com/5746703/dog-stairs-video/ 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: Dog Fearlessly Flying Down the Stairs Is One Way to Approach Life twitter:description: Going downstairs is for regular dogs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dog Fearlessly Flying Down the Stairs Demonstrates One Way to Approach Life by [Rachel E. Greenspan](/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Dec 9, 2019 8:21 PM CUT by [Rachel E. Greenspan](/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Dec 9, 2019 8:21 PM CUT A viral video of one very fearless [dog](https://time.com/5729987/narwhal-unicorn-puppy/ "undefined") has captivated the masses on TikTok. In user @BraydenBushaw’s post, one pet shows its owner who is boss. The dog’s owner asks if it wants to go down the stairs, and then it has a change of heart after making it halfway down the flight. But the magic happens when it zooms by her, effectively jumping down the stairs and slamming into the wooden steps. “This dog is broken,” the caption says. Sunday’s post has racked up 3.6 million likes, 64,000 comments and nearly 750,000 shares as of Monday afternoon. “He said ‘I really believe I can fly,'” one commenter joked, while others inquired if the dog was indeed okay after his wild expedition. “Try putting him in rice,” said another viewer, suggesting the dog could be fixed like an iPhone. (If only being a pet-owner were that easy!) It’s unclear if any dogs were harmed in the making of this video we should all watch with caution, but this one seems to bounce right back. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5746703/dog-stairs-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5746703/dog-stairs-video/"},"headline":"Dog Fearlessly Flying Down the Stairs Demonstrates One Way to Approach Life","datePublished":"2019-12-09T20:21:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:07.013Z","description":"A viral video of one very fearless dog has captivated the masses on TikTok. In user @BraydenBushaw's post, one pet shows its owner who is...","url":"https://time.com/5746703/dog-stairs-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"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/5746703/dog-stairs-video/","name":"Dog Fearlessly Flying Down the Stairs Demonstrates One Way to Approach Life"}}]}] ```