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Dash Dog

Dash Dog with a hot dog at a Mariners game
Summer 2021

The story of Dash Dog

The pup did the pose a couple of times before the one that Ande Edlund (’94 Hotel & Rest. Admin.) now refers to as The Hot Dog Incident.

The first, on August 9, 2016, garnered 113 likes on his dash.dog Instagram account, started not quite a year and half earlier. The second, on July 6, 2017, got 674.

The third went viral.

The close-up of the golden retriever wearing a bandana and ball cap while patiently holding a hot dog in his mouth at a Mariners game fetched 16,337 likes and thousands of new followers. Edlund posted the photo, snapped with his phone, on September … » More …