{"id":167051,"date":"2026-05-19T18:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=167051"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:16:39","slug":"who-is-stoney-blue-the-dog-that-calms-bts-stress-backstage-at-the-arirang-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/who-is-stoney-blue-the-dog-that-calms-bts-stress-backstage-at-the-arirang-world-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Stoney Blue? The dog that calms BTS&#8217; stress backstage at the &#8216;ARIRANG World Tour&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After recent reports on social networks, many fans wonder, <em>&#8220;Who is Stoney Blue?&#8221; <\/em>and the short answer is that he is the dog that calms <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; stress backstage at the &#8216;<strong>ARIRANG World Tour<\/strong>,&#8217; and here we will tell you all the details behind their bond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stoney Blue<\/strong> is a certified therapy dog, a brown Goldendoodle, who serves as an <strong>emotional support dog<\/strong> in venues and stadiums. His job is to walk through the backstage, reducing stress for the artists and staff with his sweetness and energy.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours ago, <strong>Suga<\/strong> shared through his Instagram stories a tender photo of his reunion with the Stoney, and then the dog&#8217;s official account confirmed his participation in the new dates of the &#8216;ARIRANG World Tour&#8217; in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emotional-support-dog-Stoney-Blue-meets-BTS-on-their-world-tour-2026-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, this is not the first time the dog has made part of a BTS tour, as they have a long history that started during the series of concerts <strong>&#8216;Permission to Dance On Stage &#8211; Las Vegas,&#8217;<\/strong> where her owner, a member of the staff, took him there to support the rest of the production.<\/p>\n<p>The bond with the members and team becomes so strong that the boys share videos and photos spending time with Stoney, and then he was invited to be part of <strong>J-Hope<\/strong>&#8216;s solo debut at <strong>Lollapalooza 2022<\/strong> (Chicago), and finally he was part of Suga&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>D-DAY Tour&#8217;<\/strong> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meet-Stoney-Blue-the-emotional-support-dog-for-the-ARIRANG-World-Tour-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After recent reports on social networks, many fans wonder, &#8220;Who is Stoney Blue?&#8221; and the short answer is that he is the dog that calms BTS&#8216; stress backstage at the &#8216;ARIRANG World Tour,&#8217; and here we will tell you all the details behind their bond. Stoney Blue is a certified therapy dog, a brown Goldendoodle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":167118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-167051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167121,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167051\/revisions\/167121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167051"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=167051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}