Sadie, a plucky Scottish terrier, garnered the third most popular story on Google News this week because she is doing very well at the Westminster Dog Show this year. This story had more views than stories related to climate change, the war in Afghanistan, and health care, none of which had anything to do with a plucky, love-able dog.
Before you go off ranting about the dumbing down of the media, or how foolish Americans are, and that if you put a cat in a boot most will sit and watch that when they could be watching The Godfather, well, hold your horses. Because Sadie is no mere plucky Scottish Terrier with a shot at winning the Westminster Dog Show. As it turns out, she’s done some pretty incredible things to even have a shot.
Sadie stood out from the other competitors almost immediately at the start of the Westminster competition, when during the first competition instead of sitting and shaking hands, as her master had planned, she asked the judges to turn down the lights and then recited Kevin Spacey’s eerie final monologue about why he kills from the movie Se7en.
She placed second in the competition, defeated only by another Scottish Terrier who was able to ring a bell with his nose.
During the second competition she bested a dachshund who for his trick ate a whole bowl full of chocolate and lived, and a Pug who was able to walk on a beach ball, when Sadie took first place by breaking down and reassembling an AK-47 in exactly 48 seconds.
There’s still one competition, and anything can happen, but I for one am rooting for Sadie, who plans for her final trick to pass legislation in Texas to make it harder for the Governor to seek the death penalty in the cases of mentally handicapped prisoners.
(Photo Via: SFGate)
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