Skateboarding dogs
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There are dogs in this world that not only can skateboard, but actually do it for fun without any prompting. Such dogs have been featured in news stories as well as the little known MTV show, "Rob and Big "(2006) Rob_and_Big#The_2nd_Episode. Website of the Most Popular Dog that was featured on this episode, Tyson. The actual episode shows how difficult it is to get a dog to become interested in boarding. Meaty, the pet of Rob, watches Tyson skate back and forth blanking. In a later episode, he finally begins to skate Rob_and_Big#The_6th_episode: (from the link) "The next morning Rob and Big Black pick up Meaty after the doctor gives Meaty a clean bill of health. The skate park is finished and they finally get Meaty to skateboard."
The exposure that Tyson has been given has prompted him to be featured on many websites as the pioneer of skateboarding dogs (specifically bulldogs). Most of them, however, do not have his level of stardom, but are featured moreso on humor websites and youtube. Examples: One Such Follower One of the Largest Documented Skateboarding Dog
Another dog, Extreme Pete brings this whole scene to a new level. He takes the game to the half pipe as well as a perilous trip down stairs. He could perhaps be called the most death defying dog in the whole business. Tyson and the other dogs to date have not shown this kind of passion publically, but it can only be assumed that from here it can only get more intense.
What perplexes most people about these videos is the fact that the dogs are boarding as though they were always meant to. Even going so far as to flip the board over just to get the chance to ride. A children's book was published on this subject: Little Yellow Dog Says Look At Me (2006). Within this fictional story book, the dog skateboards for attention. Perhaps this is a look into what drives Pete and Tyson and the other nameless dogs on?
