Surfing Inspired Dog Names

Since we’ve brought dogs into our homes and accepted them as members of the family, they have found a way to be involved in sports. If chasing tennis balls isn’t enough of an indicator, frisbees, footballs, baseballs, and anything plush should help to cement that idea. But as much as they’ve joined us, many of them are reliant on us to encourage or even facilitate their participation. Unless they have one of those fancy new automatic ball-launchers, they need us to throw the balls, toss the frisbees, and teach them how to play, even if in a limited capacity. 

But unlike those who get involved with more traditional sports, those who lean towards the extreme tend to get the most out of their dogs’ interest and ability — after all, anything that requires only basic steering such as skateboarding, snowboarding, and in this case, surfing, can truly be autonomous. 

If one needs any further example, they need to look no farther than Ricochet, better known as Surf Dog Ricochet. If it wasn’t enough that this Golden Retriever from San Diego is an accomplished surfer and boasts a significant online following between her surfing videos and social media, she also teaches disabled kids how to surf. And like many who discover their hidden talents, she started at a very early age. At only 8 weeks old, she hopped on a boogie board in a kiddie pool and was able to balance on her own. The rest was history. 

But Ricochet isn’t the only one taking the new concept of dog sports to the extreme. Since there is a considerable number of other dogs with both an interest in and an ability to surf, there is, no joke, an annual worldwide dog surfing competition held every year — and that’s just the final event. In fact, canines have taken such a liking to surfing in recent years, and the popularity of the sport has risen so greatly in the age of accessibility, that there are numerous events held all around the world to celebrate and generate competition between these water-loving dogs. There are even several websites dedicated to scheduling, coordinating, and chronicling one of the newest and most popular dog-sports, and there are even hash tags to go with it. 

So if you’ve ever kept yourself from taking surf lessons because you think it may be too difficult, remind yourself of Ricochet and her surfing kin, as even they’ve mastered the basics without the help of comprehensive verbal assistance.