trick dog

John Smith often watched greyhound races on cable TV. He had a few online bets but never won much. Nearly every Saturday, he went to the track to watch live races. He really loved the sleek dogs and dreamed that one day he would own one of them — the winner of course. 

One Friday afternoon, Sue, John’s wife, came home with a little puppy. He was adorable she said. She’d picked him up from a cardboard box in the street, with a hand-written sign: Free Puppies. There was only one left. She guessed he was a cross-breed between a chihuahua and a Maltese terrier. Imagine a lovely fluffy yapper. She thus called him Yuppy as he licked her face. John laughed with a sarcastic sigh when he saw this ball of hair for the first time.  

Yuppy grew up to become a very small smart dog. When John was watching dog races on TV, Yuppy, lounging next to him on the sofa, dreamed of being the fastest dog on the track. Why would you not dream about being the best? 

On this Saturday, John went to the track to watch races and have a few bets as usual. Sometimes Sue would go with him and on this particular day, she took Yuppy with her in a little bag…

So small he was that she did not realise he had escaped.

You’ve guessed where he went. He went to the kennels where the greyhounds were kept and parting with his dream to win one of the races, they laughed at him from their cages… 

The greyhounds are racing machines. They are not well-known for their sense of humour but they sport massive amount of sarcasm against each other. Sledging is part of their psychological game: “Hey, Backwards, here again today to win the wooden spoon?” “Hey Slowbutt, you would not catch a rabbit eating a lettuce, would you?!” They would insult each other. 

Suddenly, Yuppy had an idea…

The greyhounds race behind a lure, in the shape of a hare, that is towed at high speed on a mechanical device by the side of the track… Yuppy thought that Greyhounds are idiots. They go after a piece of artificial fluff thinking it was a real rabbit. Dumb dogs! All Yuppy had to do is, one way or another, become that piece of fluffy hare on the tow line to be first passed the post. 

No-one would know should he muddy himself to look like a dirty grey artificial hare… 

While they announced the next race, that of the six champions, he managed to climb under the cover that prevents the dogs from seeing the lure before their cages open. There he grabbed as tight as possible to the fluff of the lure…

Suddenly, there was a jolt, the acceleration was ten times that of the car when John was acting like a hoon! Yuppy nearly lost his grip but managed to hang on… and on… and on… The speed was incredible, and the dumb dogs were not catching him!

Within 30 seconds, he passed the winning post first. The lure suddenly stopped and Yuppy went flying through the air in front of the other dogs, who thinking he was a rabbit, started to maul him to pieces… 

Lucky, the race officials intervened quickly, preventing a major incident. 

They soon realise what Yuppy was and had come from. They looked at his little face begging for mercy, somewhat sorry for having done a naughty… Some officials wanted him punished, others were more inclined to be lenient and offered him a job as the best lure they ever had, since the race had been run in world record time… 28.3 seconds! And a photo-finish between three dogs keeping the betting on tenterhooks. Their best race ever!

Some officials wanted to know who had brought this little dog inside the compound. One suggested that he should be made a hero from now on…

Small and swiftly, Yuppy sleuthed away from the group and rejoined Sue, hiding in her bag… She had not noticed he had gone, but wondered how he got so dirty…

Becoming a forever lure for dumb dogs? No way though Yuppy…

He had achieved his dream: passing the post first! And there was more to life than this…

John won nothing, usually betting on dogs with names like “Speed O’ Light” or “Black Knight”…. Meanwhile, Sue had won ten times more than her usual bet, on a dog called “Slowbutt”… and furthermore she got the double at five to one on another dog coming second… “Backwards”…

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