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There are several skateboarding dogs whose exploits have been featured upon TV, websites and other media.
Skateboarding
Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport originating in the United States that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a ...
dog stories are commonly used at the end of news bulletins as
human interest
In journalism, a human-interest story is a feature story that discusses people or pets in an emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the reader o ...
stories.
Bulldog
The Bulldog is a British breed of dog of mastiff type. It may also be known as the English Bulldog or British Bulldog. It is of medium size, a muscular, hefty dog with a wrinkled face and a distinctive pushed-in nose.[centre of gravity
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the balance point) is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero. This is the point to which a force may ...]
and wide body.
Such dogs have been featured on television, such as in the
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
show ''
Rob and Big
''Rob & Big'' is an American reality television series following the lives of professional skateboarder, actor, and producer Rob Dyrdek and his best friend and bodyguard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin. It premiered on November 4, 2006, and conc ...
''. One skateboarding dog named
Tyson
Tyson is a male given name of old French origin meaning 'high-spirited', 'fire'. It is from this that a surname arose 'son of Tyson'.
Surname
*Alan Tyson (1926–2000), British musicologist
*Barbara Tyson (born 1964), Canadian actress
*Bill Tyso ...
appeared in this show and has since been featured on many websites as the pioneer of skateboarding dogs. Another bulldog,
Tillman
Tillman is a surname and given name of English origin and an Americanized spelling of Tillmann. Other variants of the name include Tilman and Dillman. Notable people with the name Tillmann include:
Surname
* Albert Tillman (1928–2004), Amer ...
, has appeared in ''
Greatest American Dog
''Greatest American Dog'' was an United States of America, American reality television show on CBS. It debuted on July 10, 2008 and was hosted by Jarod Miller with judges Victoria Stilwell, Allan Reznik, and Wendy Diamond. The winner was given the ...
''. Tillman holds the
Guinness World Record
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for "Fastest 100 m on a skateboard by a dog."
Dogs can be trained to ride skateboards by familiarising them with a skateboard in stages and rewarding the dog as it becomes more comfortable and accomplished. A children's book was published on this subject in 2006: ''Little Yellow Dog Says Look At Me''.
In this fictional story, the dog skateboards for attention.
See also
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Dog surfing
Dog surfing is a type of surfing maneuver involving dogs that are trained to surf on surfboards, bodyboards, skimboards, windsurf boards or to bodysurf. Historically, surfing dogs have been documented as occurring as early as the 1920s in t ...
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Skateboarding duck
Herbie the skateboarding duck (c.1976-83) was the subject of an item first broadcast on the ''Midlands Today'' insert to the BBC news magazine programme '' Nationwide'' on 24 May 1978.
Herbie, an Aylesbury duck, was bought by Jacky and Paddy Randa ...
References
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External links
Website of Bamboo the skateboarding mutt
Dog sports
Skateboarding mass media