He’s just a skater dog.
A Bulldog named Chowder fetched 1.6 million TikTok followers and has repeatedly gone viral for his impressive skateboarding skills.
“We’ve skated a lot with teenagers, and they all laugh because they say, ‘He’s a reincarnated skater. We know it. He’s just like us,’” his owner, Jami Delperdang, told The Post.
The 9-year-old pooch, who hails from Fox Island, Wash., behaves just like a skater too.
“If he has a bad run, he has temper tantrums and will flip the board over and will be growling at it,” she said.
“We can never end a skate session after a bad run, because he’ll be depressed all night.”
A video of Chowder trying out a new hill is his most-watched, racking up over 43 million views.
“I think it’s because he was skating like a skater. All the skater guys were like, ‘Oh my God, that’s how I skate,’” she said.
Delperdang and her husband, Rich, got Chowder through a breeder, who did not want to keep him because he wasn’t “show dog quality.”
They immediately noticed he was bored with usual puppy pastimes such as playing fetch.
He found his calling when he was 2, on his first trip to a beach on the Oregon coast where he “hijacked” a boy’s skimboard.
“He jumped on it and he started riding across the shore. It was crazy. It was like he’d been doing it his whole life,” she said.
“People got up off their towels. We had this crowd around us and everyone was asking how we had taught him to do that. And we’re like, ‘He’s never seen one of these before.’”
Since skimboards are for the ocean, and the family lives a couple of hours from the coast, Delperdang purchased a second-hand skateboard for Chowder, who “immediately knew he was supposed to ride it.”
She then asked a skateboard shop to create a wide one just for him — and for the first two years, he just laid on it and rolled around in their driveway.
“We didn’t even get him to try to stand on the board, because he didn’t seem like he wanted to. . . . but he started getting bored and barking like he was frustrated,” she recalled.
That’s when Rich decided to take Chowder to their nearby church’s parking lot, which had a little hill.
“Literally, the first time we took him, he jumped up on that board,” she said.
“The learning curve after that was unbelievable. He started taking turns. He started going fast. It was like he had been waiting for it.”
His parents are amazed at how their audacious pooch not only taught himself how to stop and turn, but how he manages to steer so flawlessly.
“He’ll look at where he’s skating and he’ll think about it, like, ‘Okay, there’s a pothole here, or there’s a branch here,’ and he’ll navigate around it,” she said.
Chowder now has 20 boards — including four electric ones and a one-wheeler — and became so obsessed with them, that the Delperdangs had to store them on a rack in their garage.
“He brought the board to bed a bunch of times,” she said. “If I were to tell him, ‘Chowder, you’re getting a new skateboard today,’ he literally will sit at the front door all day and wait for it.”
The athletic pup’s pastime can be pricey — especially because he used to destroy his boards.
“Chowder used to go through a new skateboard every six months; he would bite them when having a temper tantrum, but he is not as hard on them now,” Delperdang said.
“And skateboards are expensive, about $200 each. Electric boards are more than $1,000.”
When spring arrives, Chowder will begin bugging his parents daily — reminding them when it’s time for him to hit the bricks.
“We work remotely so he starts stalking us around 3 p.m. each day,” she said. “He brings me my tennis shoes. By 5, he is waiting by the door.”
Although he is still an avid rider, Chowder is taking fewer risks as he ages. After all, he is 63 in human years.
“He’s gotten a little bit more conservative as he’s gotten older,” she said.
“So we laugh because he used to just want to take every hill and now he’s more thoughtful about it.”