A dog park is a wonderful place for pups to let off steam freely and off-leash with other playmates. But when you've only been alive for a few months and are still tiny, a visit like this can be quite overwhelming, as Susan the Dachshund puppy found out!

The miniature dachshund, who was adopted by her owner in October 2025 when she was eight weeks old, isn't usually a timid dog.

Susan had often met strange four-legged friends in the past and got along well with them.

However, her first time at the dog park was probably a bit much, even for her!

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In a video on TikTok, Susan can be seen crouching between a man's legs and anxiously observing the activity in the meadow in front of her.

When various dogs approach and sniff her curiously, the tiny brown dachshund claws nervously into the calf of the jeans wearer and looks around in panic.

The situation becomes even cuter when you read what Susan's owner wrote about the clip.

The person she was clinging to wasn't even the pup's actual owner – or even someone she knew!

"This was some random man," her owner wrote along with some laughing emojis.

It looks like the little dog did make a new friend after all.

Susan the puppy would have clung to the first person she saw when they entered the park, her owner suggests.

Luckily, the moment of fear didn't last long.

Shortly after the video was filmed, Susan was running around with the other doggos.

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Incidentally, a possible liaison with the puppy rescuer is out of the question for the dog's owner.

"he was 40/50 and I’m 26 and taken so no romantic love story I’m afraid," she wrote in response to a comment asking about the kind stranger.

"She’s just a baby," gushed one commenter as another wrote, "Like first day in kindergarten."

"She found the closest trusted adult," added a third.