Thing We Saw Today: Competitive Dog Dancing Is a Thing?!

When I saw the tweet I thought, “so, surely this is a deep fake or some mistake at a dog show” but no … there it was on my Twitter feed. A woman and an adorable pup (a border collie I assume) doing a brilliant routine. A dance routine. To Evanescence’s classic “Bring me to life.” Welcome, my friends, to the world of competitive dog dancing.

Learning that dog dancing is a thing I feel like my soul has ascended from my body. Good good boys and girls doing fancy tricks and footwork to music? Sign me up. It’s called, as the tweet above notes, “heelwork to music” and it’s a whole THING at dog shows. According to the Kennel Club UK: “Heelwork to music is where competitors choreograph routines with their own choice of music of up to four minutes and perform these with their dog.”

And it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen.

When I am telling you this dog dancing routine to songs from The Greatest Showman cured my depression …

And one more because this is the energy I am bringing into 2021.

And if you can’t get enough of Dog Dancing, well, I have amazing news for you, there’s an entire episode dedicated to the sport or art form or whatever it is on Netflix’s recent docu-series We Are The Champions, which dives deep into the dog days of dancing with furry pals. And that’s just one installment of the series, which also includes episodes about competitive cheese rolling, frog jumping, fantasy hairstyling, and more. I am officially obsessed with all of it.

Now that’s my week’s entertainment sorted. Now, if I can just find my dog and see if Corgis can keep a beat ….

(Image: Netflix)

Here are some more things we saw today.

• Maybe the sex on Bridgerton isn’t so hot? (We agree.) (via Salon)
• The Georgia runoff is today and that means Kornacki or Kor-Backi and twitter is excited. (via Vogue)
• Collectible gold masks … great. (via io9)
• Just call us Marys Ue.
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  So many regular words become awesome Star Wars names if you just put a random space somewhere:

  Mos Quito
  Que Sadilla
  Scu Bagear
  Syn Tax
  Rev Erse
  Mala Mute
  Trypto Phan
  Cano Nical
  Impo Tent
  Slee Papnea

  — Daniel Warren (@danielwarren86) January 4, 2021

• Happy 80th Birthday to Hayao Miyazaki and his love of traditional animation (and hatred for AI). (via Polygon)
• Yes, Mar-A-Lago SHOULD be shut down for ignoring COVID restrictions. (via Huff Post)
• Clancy Brown has joined the Dexter revival! (via TTVLine)
• And finally, enjoy this incredible Mahjong table!
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  cleansing the timeline with my grandma’s mahjong table pic.twitter.com/ZlOEPhUfpe

  — Yulin Kuang (@YulinKuang) January 5, 2021

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Jessica Mason (she/her) is a writer based in Portland, Oregon with a focus on fandom, queer representation, and amazing women in film and television. She's a trained lawyer and opera singer as well as a mom and author.

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