Tillman the skateboarding dog

12/01/2009

Tilman the skateboarding dog masters Tony Hawk: Ride Activision game level 1/Photo credit Sharethrough

And now for something completely different...The snowboarding, surfing, skimboarding skateboarding bulldog made famous by an Animal Planet Most Outrageous Talented Pets video, Tillman, has done it again. This time he’s mastered a video game! Tillman became the first dog trained to complete the entire first level of Activision’s Tony Hawk: Ride game. The key? It uses a skateboard as a controller!

On the Animal Planet video, Tillman’s owner Ron Davis says the dog’s actually "a ballerina, in the shape of a pot roast." Ha! The dog learned skateboarding because the family’s other pet, a Rotweiler, used to have his own fascination with one of the family’s many skateboards. He would push it around, down the street but never actually fully skateboarded. When Tillman joined the family, he showed interest because of that, they got him his very own board, and the rest is history.

Tillman doesn’t show much interest in Frisbees or playing with other dogs but gets antsy if he goes a day without skateboarding! The family thought they should try him out on the Tony Hawk videogame, and before long, he mastered that too. They recorded a videogame showing Tillman playing the game and the tricks he can perform – through the game – are amazing! Maybe Tillman will learn some tricks he can try out on his real skateboard. Check out the video below!

Comments

[Animals Away]

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[bailey neal]

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