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CHWILOG, WALES — In all fairness to "Jack",
there's nothing really in the rules of darts that says you can't grab
your darts off the board, run off and chew on them a bit.
All the same, the aerobatic little mutt
has been banned from actual tournaments at the Welsh pub Madryn Arms.
But when the games are just for fun, the 6-year-old Collie-Jack Russell
Terrier mix is ready to step up to the toeline with the best of them.
Jack isn't allowed to throw darts (can
you imagine...? Oh, the humanity!), but after each round he eagerly launches
himself up to the dart board and retrieves them better than any dart
player under 30cm tall.
In general, he plays fair and kindly
returns the darts to the players, but pub owner Sue Roster indicates
that her dog Jack is getting a bit more willful in his old age.
"We've had to give him his own set
of darts to stop him running off with everyone else's," she
says. "During actual matches we have to keep him locked
behind the bar or it would be chaos—he just sits and whines the whole
time."
She also adds that the portly little
pooch is not as spry as in days of old, when he was able to deftly clear
the 5'-8" regulation-height bull's-eye with ease: "He used to
be able to jump right up for darts that had landed in the double top,
but now he's older—and fatter!—he can only manage as high as the
bull's-eye."
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