Winter Sports

With all the Olympic excitement, we decided at the Richardson household to participate in our own way. Going out to Salt Lake City was certainly not in our budget, so we held our own Olympic competition.

A couple of years ago during the last summer games, I wrote a short column for our puppyraising group about the Puppyraiser Olympics. Some of the events included the Leash Lift (freestyle and compulsory), Multiple Dog Walking (whoever could walk the most dogs without getting pulled off their feet won, handicapped of course to take into account differences in stature of the walkers), and the Puppy Gate Hurdle, just to name a few.

The only problem with those games was the humans had all the fun. My dogs strenuously complained that they wanted their chance at a medal since they knew that they had as much chance of winning Crufts or Westminster as a snowball does surviving a hot Florida afternoon.

It didn't take me long to put together a few competitive events for my hounds of h...eck.

Scudder, our male black Lab, won a gold medal for best Counter Cruiser. The only problem was he had to enjoy it from his crate because in the process he finished off my last plastic spatula.

Tessa , our female golden retriever, won gold in the Prybar Nose competition. Valentine, our old Corgi mix, took silver in this event. Both are particularly effective at digging under your arm and flipping it up to stick their heads underneath, however, Tessa is good at turning your swivel chair around in the process.

Valentine didn't lose out entirely though. She made the podium with gold in Longest Sustained Yard Shuffle Investigation. This event is particularly hard to judge because the panel (my husband and myself) had to keep each other awake waiting for her to decide she was ready to go back inside after investigating every single square inch of front yard three times.

Holly, our female black Lab (whose four puppies are doing wonderfully!) won gold for Best Momma Dog. Yeah, I know, but she couldn't do much else the last few weeks.

Last but not least, Bubbles (AKA Osama bin Bubbles) won gold in the Ball Buster competition. I assume most men do not need an explanation of that event.

Scudder, claiming that when he was a smaller puppy there were several times he excelled in this category filed an official protest at the decision. We explained to him that past performance didn't count, and besides, this wasn't necessarily a category he wanted to win anyway.

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