Some
people did not believe that the picutre of the
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/08/photo_of_surfing_dog.php">surfing
dog was
real. I can't prove it either way, with respect to that
particujlar dog, but I did find a video of
a different dog surfing. This might give pause to the
skeptics. The dog in the video is a
href="http://www.akc.org/breeds/golden_retriever/index.cfm">golden
retriever. If any dog could do it, a Golden
certainly could.
The photo, below, is a screen capture. The video is at the
SLO Tribune,
href="http://www.sanluisobispo.com/videos/080407surfdog/slo_video_player.swf">here.
href="http://www.sanluisobispo.com/videos/080407surfdog/slo_video_player.swf">
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