We all enjoy our share of hard-hitting drama from time to time, but sometimes, sitting back and mindlessly enjoying a wholesome slice of the internet is much needed.


If youโre looking to relax and free your mind of whatever stress and anxiety youโve been facing today, youโve come to the right place.
You asked for wholesome, and thereโs perhaps nothing more wholesome than animals playing together in a field full of flowers.
Meet 1-year-old Shar pei, Chino.


The bundle of fluff is clearly still in his playful stage of life. Anything and anyone he meets on his travels is an opportunity for fun.
So when Chino met Duke, a 1-week-old foal, it was pretty much guaranteed to be a match made in heaven.
Nothing to see here โ except for a fluffy puppy and tiny horse playing together.


At first, it looks like Chino and Duke arenโt too sure what to think of one another.
They spontaneously choreograph an awkward dance, with each party stepping forward, stalling, losing nerve and stepping away.
It seems that theyโre both curious about one another, though, and thereโs lots of intense staring.


Eventually, Chino sits down, and Duke plucks up the courage to come forward and give him a sniff. Imagine if thatโs how humans deemed whether their fellow humans were suitable for friendship.
Chino is good as gold as Duke checks him out, before running up to the camera, as if to say, โWhatโs this fluffy thing in my field? Doesnโt look much like a horse to me.โ


By that point, Chino thinks heโs won Duke over, and attempts a bit of puppy play.
The pair bound around together โ but then Duke bottles it!


He races back to the safety of his mom, and we think thatโs it; the momentโs well and truly over.
But while hiding behind his momโs back, Duke manages to summon up some more courage.
He leaps forward, meeting Chino head-onโฆ but then retreats back to his mom.


Clearly, the pair need a bit more time to get used to each other, even if Chino, in typical puppy style, seems perfectly at ease already.
Weโve all seen videos of animals playing together, but itโs rare for inter-species bonds to develop.
Is it possible for any animals of different species to make friends, and under what conditions? According to Slate, it certainly is:
โAnimals can forge bonds across species boundaries if the need for social contact pre-empts their normal biological imperatives.โ


Simply put, if an animal has an overarching desire to make friends, and this desire overrules the behaviors that theyโre equipped with for survival, then yes, it can make friends with another species.
In the case of Chino and Duke, weโd say itโs a combination of friendliness and naivety โ theyโre both still young, after all!
Though Duke seems a little warier, Chino clearly doesnโt care at all. They say dogs are too innocent for this world, and weโd have to agree โ thereโs no sense of danger there whatsoever.


Videos like this might be simple, but theyโre exactly what so many of us need to see in a world of over-stimulation and stress.
Unsurprisingly, more than 850,000 people have tuned into the wholesome content of puppy and foal playing together.
You can watch this adorable video below!
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