Questions Re. Structure and Jumping - Page 6

This is no dog, but a cat, "designed" to jump.
It´s about the frontlegs almost only ( same with the dog ). The cat is able to absorbe most of the power because of the flexibility of shoulderblades and pasterns, perfect "spring shocks", but they are NOT flattened, like Joanro said, but STRETCHED when the cat reaches the ground, and THAN they get flattened to absorbe the shock - same with a well angulated dog ( mechanics ).
http://www.luckypetbox.com/de/blog/katzensprung-in-zeitlupe_53

If a dog lands on both the front feet at same time same line he will drop on his face or break a leg

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A neat photo of a horizontal jump. I wish it would show the dog landing. 

When it is horizontal like the one Blitzen posted, most of times dog lands on one front fot and rear foot same time then the other  two feet after a bit of a second just like in gallop

long jumps, my own dog. second clip is brutal;

 

 

Why would you want your dog to jump over a ravine when one slip could be fatal?

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because the dog doesn't suck, how about yr's.

Haha, Ibrahim, not sure how easy your life will be when I tell all the very best jumping dogs are straight in front....greyhound, Mali, borzoi, gsd with relatively straight front.
Ibrahim, my dogs from the time they are puppies, enjoy going up onto a terrace above the driveway, then jumping out, onto the gravel driveway. The leap is a combination horizontal and vertical, approximately twelve feet across and six foot drop. They most of the time land on both front feet simultaneously. They do not always appear to land in stride when they jump from a stand still. My SL did the jump once...he cought himself on his chin because he ran out of shocks.:-)

VK, you are crazy.