It’s better to be safe than sorry, and Chunk seems to have adopted that as his personal life motto. The video on @chunkorbust opens with him standing near the deck chairs in the backyard, doing that classic “I’m assessing the situation” stillness you see in certain sturdy, round-bodied dogs who prefer logic over risk. And this Bulldog’s logic? Pools are suspicious. Extremely suspicious. Chunk, who proudly identifies as a rescued land manatee and part-time fuzzy hippo, has decided that if he must enter the yard after his morning walk, he will do it on his own terms: carefully, slowly, and absolutely nowhere near the water.
Dog ‘crawls under the chairs’ to avoid getting close to swimming pool in video
What’s remarkable is how quickly this little moment of backyard drama went viral; the video has racked up over 8.3k likes, and it still feels like people are discovering Chunk’s tactical genius every hour. The moment his owner pans the camera down, you see precisely how committed he is to his mission. Instead of walking past the pool like a normal dog, he drops into a determined crawl. He scoots under the deck chairs like he’s navigating an obstacle course designed specifically to protect him from imaginary danger.
He’s grunting the entire time, partly because his body is built like a tiny living ottoman, and partly because he’s carrying his eighth randomly found ball in his mouth. Priorities. His mom’s caption adds the perfect commentary: “Little quirks like this are so typical of being a Bulldog mom!” And really, it shows in every frame.
Chunk’s fear of the pool, his devotion to his ball collection, and his slow-motion tactical crawl have earned the video more than 8.3k likes, plus a flood of comments calling him everything from a “smart baby” to the “Head of Health & Safety.”
By the time he completes his chair-tunnel escape route, you can’t help but root for him. Chunk may avoid the pool like it personally wronged him, but he does it with charm, determination, and a soundtrack of heroic little grunts.
