Canines: One. Homo Sapiens: Zilch

As I perusing my pawful of a newspaper this morning...I came across the best news that I have read in an eternity.

I know...you can't decide which you should be more enthralled by...the fact that I, Frankie Dog, can read OR the fact that there was something good to read about.

Well, as luck would have it a canine...the golden retriever type...swam in a race from Alcatraz to the California cost and BEAT more than 400 human competitors. The link should be on this page somewhere...if the whole cutting and pasting thing worked...

I am so impressed with that goldie. One, because I have always heard rumors that goldies aren't the brightest of the pups...but I'll give them credit that they have to be slightly more with it than the homo sapiens that we encounter on a day to day basis...and I heard that they sometimes don't make the smartest decisions, the goldies I mean. Well, I wouldn't be caught dead in that cold Cali water...not only are there tons of fish that would probably try to take a bite out of my tail...it is SALT WATER! And do you know what salt water does for the coat? It completely makes you sticky and icky and when you roll in the sand to clean it off...well, even more sand sticks to you because of the salt. So, not only have you had to endure a cold swim but then a cold shower is in the future as well! ICK!! I keep my stand as anti-water.

Anyways, kudos to the goldie for making a grand show for us canines. He obviously has a much better technique than the human they took his photo next to. I mean what crazy human does breaststroke across rough waters? That is just about the slowest way that you could cross a body of water...I mean, dog paddle is even faster than that...and if we could lift our legs up over our heads you had better believe that us canines would be investing our time in learning freestyle and butterfly...but breaststroke is for the ducks!

Ahhh...finally the Monday of the week is done and over with...I can get a little rest in this morning on a clean pile of towels still warm from the drawer...My favorite!!!!!!!!