June 13, 2009 - The Weenie Dog Races at Holy Cross Abbey, Canon City, Colorado

Our first time showing off six-month-old Sparky and Splendor in public, and they behaved wonderfully! Splendor even finished her race - Sparky didn't.
We don't know who any of these folks were, but we all had a great time playing with our weenie-dogs!
Both pics, Splendor, left - Sparky, right. Over here, in costume...
This was a week after Sparky took First Place in his class at the Colorado Springs Kennel Club dog show - you can see why!
Splendor makes a new friend...
Winner (of course!) of the Cutest Weenie contest. Nobody else stood a chance!
Loading the racers into the chutes....
Copy-cat!
Ooooooh.... a little more to the left, please!
And they're off! Smokey Joe leads by a length, but Black Sausage is coming up fast! The rest are slow coming out of the chutes! GO WEENIES!!!
Every boy needs a little weenie!
Are we a matched set, or what?!
A great time was had by all...... Now that we know how it's done, we're looking forward to THIS year's races! It's pretty neat, too, to see all the dachshunds - who knew there were this many in our area?! WOW!