SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Each year dog owners take their pups to a race park, where the four-legged speed demons line-up to zip down the track, in hopes of taking first place. But you won’t find grey hounds or whippets on this racecourse -- just wiener dogs -- or Daschunds, as they’re officially known.
The sport got its start in the 1970s in Australia. But the hobby didn’t arrive in the United States until 1993, when during the Super Bowl a Miller Lite spot about alternative sports … read more