Flinging Midget Widgets

The only thing on my mind to blog about lately is Jack Russell terrier racing (see above).

There is a show somewhere on cable occasionally that has all sorts of dog races and dog obstacle courses. But, by far, of the diving labradors and frisbee-catching mutts, the most entertaining competition is the Jack Russell terrier race.

These little dogs (see above) wiggy-wiggy like (ahem) mad dogs through a ramp-laden obstacle course.

Occasionally, one little smiggy decides he's just going to go around...you know, avoid the annoying things to jump over and through. Anyway, the seven or eight or however many little widgets fly their way across a course only to find themselves running at high-speed toward a hole in a wall sized for a mouse. (The hole, not the wall.)

As they slam through it one by one at around 37 mph (which is very, very fast, if you're the size of a midget dog), one little doggy, nearly every single time, misses the rat-sized hole and sproings his muzzled face into the wall.

There is nothing funnier on television, I promise you.