A chipmunk plays Indiana Jones ahead of a sliding cart on The Pet Collective
The short has viewers stamping on brakes that aren't there, and asking whether the little runner ever made it off the track.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 115,314 views a day, 9.2 times a normal first day on this channel (12,553).
Chipmunk Keeps Stopping and Running Ahead of Sliding Cart
Pets and animals channels are having a quiet stretch. Nearly every big name in the group is drawing fewer daily views than usual, The Pet Collective included, and the channel's newest Halloween dog clips have been gathering a modest crowd. Then a chipmunk turned up on a track.
"Chipmunk Keeps Stopping and Running Ahead of Sliding Cart" is exactly what the title says. A cart rolls down a track with the person filming on board, and a small chipmunk keeps dashing ahead, pausing, then dashing again. It never thinks to step aside. The description compares it to Indiana Jones and adds a boulder, a nod to the giant rolling stone that chases Harrison Ford through the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The short passed 135,000 views in a little over a day, roughly nine times what a new short here usually draws on its first day, and the comments arrived about five times faster than usual.
The comments read like a group of nervous passengers. Several viewers admit they kept pressing an imaginary brake with their foot every time the cart got close. Others thank the rider for stopping, and some point out that the chipmunk was clearly running for its life while everyone else found it funny. One question keeps coming back: did it ever get off the track? The clip doesn't say.
Like most of the channel's videos, this one came from a viewer, credited in the description. It also puts a wild animal in front of a channel whose usual stars are dogs, cats and the occasional goat standing on a cow.
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What viewers say
The chipmunk got so close at one point that I put my foot down on an imaginary brake instinctively 🫣
@AtomicCrockerySee it on YouTubeThey probably have a blast when the park is closed.
@robertgolden4327See it on YouTubeThat's one fast chipmunk!!! I can now say I've seen them with the zoomies 💜😅😂🤣😁
@susansimmons6023See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- The Pet Collective
- Subscribers
- 9,580,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 9,187,866
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,156,231 (on a normal day: 1,455,080)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 135,318 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 127,457
The numbers
One short ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, during a stretch when the channel as a whole sat a little below its normal pace.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which film does Indiana Jones outrun a giant rolling boulder in the opening scene?
The boulder escape opens Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones adventure.
