Jumping Over

[ladyjubilee]

Patriot's photo in the contest this month inspired my curiosity. What is the highest you dog has jumped?

[TimL_168]

En has had her head over 7 feet in the air a few times trying to get ahead of a ball or frisbee. I try to set things up so she's not jumping quite so high, but sometimes I mess up the throw. She's climbed over ten feet high in trees. The maples at the back of my yard are covered in dense ivy. I recently learned that squirrels can and will drive her to grip the ivy with her feet and climb like there's no tomorrow.

[TimL_168]

There's a pic of her about 6½ feet high on a tree stump floating around on here

[ladyjubilee]

Ah, squirrels. The world's best motivation.

[ladyjubilee]

That sounds like our old boxer lab mix. The delicate little flower couldn't possibly jump into the car; just too far. So we always had to pick him up..all 89lbs.

But when he wanted to get to the other side of a 7 foot fence, he just jumped right over.

[centrop67]

I'll just answer with pictures...

[TimL_168]

Mike! Oh my god those are great!!!

[TimL_168]

Endeavor has been jumping over our coffee table too, lately.

[Wes Thomas]

Rough estimate with Karma. 8 foot or so. Always so incredible to see them fly

[centrop67]

Some dogs can fly!

[ladyjubilee]

Do you think Lazslo moves differently just as a personality thing or because of his history?

[TimL_168]

Endeavor used to spring over Aurora's back all the time. Jumps like a pronghorn sometimes! I can never get good picture though

[ladyjubilee]

I wondered as Casper seems to be the same. He is only now starting to move like a dog. We think he lived in a kennel and just didn't get to experience, well, anything. He really has a gap in his motor planning development. But recently he has started running more normally for short bursts. Last night he was able to "jump" onto the couch after a few tries for the first time. He is small, but thats not a super leap for a dog his size.

[ladyjubilee]

What did Aurora think of being jumped over?

[ladyjubilee]

Bramble loves to jump. She will even throw a ball or disc in the air so she can jump to catch it. I haven't encouraged her to jump fences though. She's been taught to STAY in the fence

[centrop67]

This thread tells me I need to have a "Jump" theme in an upcoming photo contest.

[Wes Thomas]

I wish we could upload videos as well. Here's a couple of older links from when Karma turned 1 and when she turned 3 years.

[centrop67]

You can't "upload" videos, BUT you can embed You Tube videos in your post.

Instructions Here

[centrop67]

Here's a couple of older links from when Karma turned 1 and when she turned 3 years.

Now, all you need to do is get a good screen shot from the video and enter it in the contest

[ladyjubilee]

That is so great. I can never get a picture of Bramble jumping because I'm too slow