--- title: Dog Playing in Water Jet Is the True Spirit of the Internet description: No human will ever have as much fun as a dog who has just discovered a new source of entertainment — and this video confirms that. canonical: https://time.com/5800154/dog-playing-in-water-jet-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-10T15:04:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:21.705Z og:title: Dog Gleefully Playing in a Water Jet Is the True Spirit of the Internet og:description: "Live your best life" og:url: https://time.com/5800154/dog-playing-in-water-jet-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt732b916cdd5464f6/698a0b634ee2624736317350/Dog-Water-Spray.jpg?branch=production&width=509&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 509 og:image:height: 286 og:image:alt: Dog-Water-Spray og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dog Gleefully Playing in a Water Jet Is the True Spirit of the Internet twitter:description: "Live your best life" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt732b916cdd5464f6/698a0b634ee2624736317350/Dog-Water-Spray.jpg?branch=production&width=509&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dog Gleefully Playing in a Water Jet Is the True Spirit of the Internet > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 10, 2020 3:04 PM UTC  French bulldog having a bath in the city fountain on a hot spring day French bulldog having a bath in the city fountain on a hot spring day HiddenCatch—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 10, 2020 3:04 PM UTC No human will ever have as much fun as a [dog](https://time.com/5799738/dog-crawling-video/) who has just discovered a new source of entertainment — and this video of a pup unearthing the [joys of a water jet](https://time.com/5726701/dog-water-fountain-video/) confirms that. In a clip that quickly began to go viral after it was shared by [Twitter user Theo Shantonas](https://twitter.com/CucumberTonic) on Monday, a small French bulldog-like dog can be seen pawing at a dormant water jet at what looks like a city splash pad. When water finally sprays out of the jet, the pup leaps up in a fit of joy and dances around on his hind legs for a few seconds. He then proceeds to playfully attack the stream, getting the absolute most out of his trip to the park. “Live your best life,” Shantonas captioned the video, which has been watched over 15,000 times as of Tuesday morning. > [](https://twitter.com/CucumberTonic/status/1237160548883738625) We must protect this dog at all costs. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5800154/dog-playing-in-water-jet-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5800154/dog-playing-in-water-jet-video/"},"headline":"Dog Gleefully Playing in a Water Jet Is the True Spirit of the Internet","datePublished":"2020-03-10T15:04:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:21.705Z","description":"\"Live your best life\"","url":"https://time.com/5800154/dog-playing-in-water-jet-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","Brief","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt732b916cdd5464f6/698a0b634ee2624736317350/Dog-Water-Spray.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt732b916cdd5464f6/698a0b634ee2624736317350/Dog-Water-Spray.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dog-Water-Spray","caption":"French bulldog having a bath in the city fountain on a hot spring day","creditText":"HiddenCatch—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5800154/dog-playing-in-water-jet-video/","name":"Dog Gleefully Playing in a Water Jet Is the True Spirit of the Internet"}}]}] ```