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Golden Retriever Hilariously Fails at Dog Competition

by Melanie

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Finnish dog competition Koira Mestari is designed to showcase dogs with exceptional focus, obedience, and speed.  One competitor failed miserably at all three, but won everybody’s hearts.

 

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Dogs in the event were meant to run down a carpet lined with distractions – food, water, and toys.  The first two handled it with ease and sailed right past the temptations.

 

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But competitor number three knows what a winner really is – the one who gets the most food – and he happily grabbed toys and scarfed down every morsel he could before being hauled away by his embarrassed owner.

 

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He may not have won the competition, but he certainly won the judges hearts, who enthusiastically applauded him.