Skating goes to the dogs

Poto is the coolest dog in town. The two-year-old black staffordshire-bulldog cross just loves riding around Nelson's Rutherford Park skatepark in the afternoon sunshine.
Poto's owner, Piripi Smith, has come from Tauranga to Nelson to work during the hoki season.
He says Poto is the keenest dog he knows.

When he pushes his skateboard, technically a longboard, down the sloping concrete of the skatepark, Poto, with her sloppy tongue hanging out, jumps on it.
The dog gathers speed using her free paw to push along the ground. Now and then, she stops to chew on the wheel then carries the skateboard back to her owner for another go. MORE>>