SurfingDogCompetition.
dcis_steve, Flickr Ever since the skateboarding dog pedaled its way to YouTube fame, pooches everywhere have been in training to become America's next big athletic sensation. That's the only way to explain why 65 dogs mounted surfboards and tacked the West Coast waves this weekend. The dogs competed in the fifth annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition in California on Saturday, an event to benefit the San Diego Police Canine Unit. The competitors -- ranging in size from an 85-pound Bernese mountain dog to a 5-pound Pomeranian -- hit the shores of Imperial Beach, braving stormy weather to ride the waves on human-sized surfboards. Each life-vest adorned dog was placed on a ...