Channan Frosty’s four-year-old border collie Kirk is one of the most agile, best trained dogs in the world. Frosty knows this because her dog is a 2017 Purina Incredible Dog Challenge champion. Kirk knows this because she watches the replays of her glorious win from time to time and celebrates the hell out of it:
Kirk the border collie gets extremely hype watching herself win agility championships
Kirk is a very good dog. And a very agile dog.
Kirk dusted the St. Louis small dog course in 33.69 seconds to claim last year’s title. She puts approximately 10 percent of the energy of her actual run into watching the broadcast of it and still bounces around like a happy kangaroo.
Border collies were originally bred in the United Kingdom to herd sheep. The agility competition is a natural extension of that, as most Scottish farms are lousy with small fabric tunnels and seesaws. Kirk is just the latest in a long chain of her breed to combine elite obedience and intelligence with the ability to completely destroy a playground.
Here’s the full video of Kirk’s run, in case you’d like to show it to your dog and see if he/she has a similar reaction. I played it for my 4.5-year-old, zero-ACL-having pit bull; he woke up briefly, sighed loudly, and then went back to sleep.
If you’d like a dog of your own — a high-energy, course-shredding border collie OR a couch-hogging, dumb-and-cuddlesome pit bull — please consider finding one at your local Humane Society or shelter. Here’s a list of all the shelters near you, where good dogs old and young, athletic and apathetic, need good homes. You probably won’t find the next Kirk, but you’ll almost certainly find a dog who’ll be willing to watch TV with you — especially if it’s agility competitions.
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