Pot Roast was certainly not the fastest, the highest-jumping or even the best-looking of the “Superdogs” that displayed great athletic feats at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo Monday.
“I’ve noticed most of the dogs in this class are very sleek and streamlined,” the Superdogs ringmaster and creator Herb Williams said to Pot Roast’s hand ler, Joan Weston, in the arena.
“This is not exactly the class for a watermelon.”
But the squatty 3-year-old English bulldog had “it.” He was a comic star, stealing the show like biscuits from a plate.
“Awwwwww, he’s so cute,” 11-year-old Kayla Kimmons of Northglenn told her friends when Pot Roast galloped into the arena for his first attempt at outclassing more than 30 boxers, shepherds, collies, Whippets and other athletic breeds in the Superdogs show.
Pot Roast ran as hard as his four-inch legs would carry him toward rows of sticks stacked 5 feet high, a mighty leap for the stocky canine.
Pot Roast charged through the first three, clearing them by no more than a few inches. The audience howled with laughter as Pot Roast chomped down on one of the white sticks he had knocked down and pranced around with it.
Pot Roast is pure ham, said Weston afterward, as the dog panted nearby with stretched out jowls that resembled a big smile.
“He jumps if he feels like jumping,” she said. “He’s his own dog.”
Pot Roast also was born to perform. His owner donated him to Weston to put in the show when Pot Roast was a puppy that just always seemed to make people laugh.
By the end of the sold-out show, John Saperstein, 64, of Colorado Springs was among those who had fallen for Pot Roast’s charm.
“If I was in that show,” he told his wife, Ellen, “I’d be Pot Roast.”
A second Superdogs show is scheduled for today at 6:30 p.m.
Staff writer Joey Bunch can be reached at 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com.
