ALBUQUERQUE, NM (CNN) -- They may be the little guys in the dog world, but dachshunds can move! There's even a contest to prove it! Let us introduce you to Calvin, the nation's fastest wiener dog.
You are looking at wiener dog racing royalty. This is Calvin, a spotted dachshund from Albuquerque who, turns out, is pretty gosh darn fast! Calvin's owner Cindy Spencer says, "He's the current wiener national champion, so the fastest wiener dog in the nation."
Spencer says last year, she heard an ad on the radio for a National Dachshund Dash. On a whim, she trucked over to the tryouts. Cindy says, "He ended up sweeping the whole thing. We got the trip to San Diego, we flew out there and he ended up sweeping that too."
He's currently, as sponsor Wienerschnitzel calls him, the fastest wiener in the west. Cindy says, there's noo true training involved. She says, "He's really excited about the tennis balls, so that's pretty much all it takes is i just bounce the tennis ball, and he just about comes undone."
She's not kidding! She says, "I think he has... he has an intense focus on the tennis ball, so he's pretty obsessive about it."
Lucky for this short-legged fellow; all he has to do is run 50 feet faster than his six competitors and he'll win $1,000. And retain the title of the most fleet-footed dachshund in the country! Cindy says, "Even though he has no idea what its about, for us it's pretty funny."
Looks like he plans to run circles around his competition. Calvin will compete in the Wienerschnitzel Nationals in San Diego Wednesday.