With all due respect to the athletes in Rio, I offer the Four Sticks Farm 2016 Summer Games Puppy Pentathlon, Rowdy-style:
Boxing – The little yellow pup doesn’t qualify for competition yet, but has proven to be a worthy sparring partner for Mocha, the seal point from Siam.
Diving (.5 Meter Platform) – has mastered the four-legged free-fall through the rhubarb into the wood chips, and nails the landing every time.
Triple Jump – routinely leaps off the porch, across the sidewalk and into the hosta. Just for the fun of it.
Water Polo – with a nod to his sporting breed background, splashes and dashes in any available body of water – wading pool to water dish.
Weightlifting – able to snatch and grab two men’s slippers and hold until offered a treat worth trading for.
Wrestling – breezed through preliminary matches with the plush bluebird and fuzzy giraffe, but brings the A game when facing his nemesis, the sock monkey.
I’d love to reward Rowdy’s athletic accomplishments, but am pretty sure he’d chew on the medal and pee on the podium…
From Four Sticks Farm 