--- ---  # Little Girl Dancing With a Dog Who Can Really Move Is Sparking a Bit of Joy by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Mar 19, 2020 12:25 AM UTC  Getty Images by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Mar 19, 2020 12:25 AM UTC People were looking for a reason to smile on the internet this week. From [happy moments of human connection](https://time.com/5804742/kids-cello-coronavirus-video/) to finding ways to have fun while [self-quarantining](https://time.com/5804188/tic-tac-toe-pets/) in an effort to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, many viral moments involved [man’s best friend](https://time.com/5802459/work-from-home-pets/). (Naturally.) The latest dog to grace the Twitterverse is a pup named Otis who danced with his sister like the good boy he is. “In case you need to smile… my daughter dancing with our pup Otis,” Carrie Levan, an assistant professor at Colby College, said in a tweet on Tuesday, sharing a video of her daughter dancing with their abnormally large and humanlike dog in what is basically a _Beauty and the Beast_ rendition for the ages. > [](https://twitter.com/LevanCarrie/status/1239911606764658688) When another Twitter user remarked on that Otis’ striking resemblance to a Wookie from _Star Wars,_ Levan shared a picture of Otis celebrating Halloween as his doppelgänger, Chewbacca. > [](https://twitter.com/LevanCarrie/status/1239970497401458689) The video has 2.6 million views and more than 200,000 likes as of Wednesday evening, because there will never be too many dogs on the internet. Little Girl Dancing With a Dog Sparks a Lot of Joy ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5805934/dog-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5805934/dog-dance/"},"headline":"Little Girl Dancing With a Dog Who Can Really Move Is Sparking a Bit of Joy","datePublished":"2020-03-19T00:25:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:23.576Z","description":"A little girl dancing around the house with a very good boy is sparking plenty of joy right now.","url":"https://time.com/5805934/dog-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf316d2597b441f58/698a0bbb011682819997f23d/girl-dog-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf316d2597b441f58/698a0bbb011682819997f23d/girl-dog-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Woman holding her Golden Retriever at lake","caption":"Woman holding her Golden Retriever at lake","creditText":"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/5805934/dog-dance/","name":"Little Girl Dancing With a Dog Who Can Really Move Is Sparking a Bit of Joy"}}]}] ```