Saturday, October 10, 2009

Princess clinches victory in 1st heat (race..not like "in" heat.)

Well..many people had smiles put on their faces today due to the wiener princess and about 60 other dachshunds in our area. Over $400 was made and donated to the animal rescue in the area;all registration fees and donations went to help homeless dogs and cats. AND believe it or not WE had a victory of our own. Carmen was racer#3 and was in the first heat...and she WON!!!! She did NOT cause a ruckus, well, anywhere there is more than one dachshund, there is bound to be a ruckus, but at least she wasnt the cause of it, as I was sure she would be. The video below of the race has me having tunnel vision focusing only on Carmen with the camera, so I THOUGHT that one of the dogs has run down to the finish line and won, and that Carmen was second..what I DIDNT see was that that dog turned around 3/4 of the way there, and came back to the starting line. He became distracted by the others, and Carmen decided to go toward the finish line and toward daddy, albeit SLOWLY...but at least she went down there, and won!!!! She went to the semi finals and lost, but not without the help of an IDIOT. I feel an open letter coming on, in fact. This moron...put her hand down into the racing track, and so Carmen stopped, and the woman, instead of realizing her interference and withdrawing her hand just LEFT it there to pet Carmen. I wanted to strangler her. What a jack ass. Anyway, it was a great day, saw some beautiful dogs, raised money for a good cause and the princess was able to mingle with her public. We saw some freaks and some idiots, which is always fun. Now without further ado, some videos and pics of our day.

Some pre race conditioning...


The registration line...


Pre race reflection.....


The video below is Carmen's meet and greet. They had a classic car show in honor of her as well...so she is just walking around visiting her admirers. The band was playing "Brown Eyed Girl" for her too.


The kids enjoyed some "hot dogs" in her honor....it was freezing outside today.


The starting line...S is holding her back...


Here is the 1st heat that she won. Ignore me...proof that I should never be a professional commentator or be allowed to shoot footage of ANYTHING...she came in first, not second, I just didnt know it.


Here she is after the race, on the way home...so tired.

3 comments:

Lisa said...

Congratulations Carmen!

Heather Cherry said...

Okay, you just totally made my day! Yay for Carmen and her cute lil' star sweater. I love the pre-race contemplation picture and her meet and greet with her fans. OMG.

foxy said...

That is so freaking adorable!! LOVE IT! They have wiener-dog races here... and i will totally check them out next time!!