Furry pups make a splash at World Dog Surfing Championships

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Dozens of dogs shredded waves in Northern California this weekend at the World Dog Surfing Championship. The event, which began in 2006, awarded prizes based on ride distance and style.

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00:00A lot of these dogs just love water, they just love being in the water, you know, you

00:18got some of the dogs, they even have their chew toys attached to the end of their boards

00:21and they'll like drag the board in the water, want to be out there.

00:25It's just a lot of fun for them and I think it's also a lot of the balancing, you know,

00:29you can see them like kind of feeling the wave.

00:37I'm kind of judging dog surfing basically like regular surfing, I'm judging it on the

00:41waves they do, if they're staying on the board long enough, how long they can manage to hold

00:46their balance and just everything like that.

00:58As you know French Bulldogs don't surf and or swim, they usually kind of sink.

01:03This one's an overachiever, I got myself an overachiever.

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