can not jump!!!!! - Page 3

Blitz loves to jump, but his pasterns are so long and weak that I don't encourage it anymore. I've put away his jump and tire that he liked so much. Didn't feel it was worth the risk of his injurying himself. Soundness means so much in a working dog.

My working line girl was heavier than my show line but she was also very atletic and a good jumper. The kennel where I bought my show line had quite a few GSD's and they all seemed athletic...

This is a longshot, but have you had the dog's eyes checked by a certified canine ophthamologist? There are cataracts and PRA in this breed as well as corneal issues.

Are you sure is not a white GSD?....ppprrrmmmtttsss! Get it, get it.

The showline girl I had loved to go places and would jump into the back of my truck. One day we were just talking standing around my truck and she jumped over the tailgate into the back of my truck. I measured it a few minutes ago and it is 55" tall, I know she used her legs to scale but still a high jump. My 7 yr old working girl still jumps into the back of my truck no problem (32" tall). I suspect many of you have showlines that can jump like a deer too.

I agree with Blitzen that the dog has to have an athletic build. I also agree with Bob-O that the dog needs to want to jump and that, in the absence of a natural desire to jump, an attractive incentive needs to be used to condition the dog. My late Wiko vom Kirschental son Otto was a crazy jumper. He was a powerful dog with big thighs, no roach and not overangulated behind. First time he tried an A-Frame at around 18 months he tried to go over it, and flew headfirst into it around a foot from the top. After he did this two more times (Otto was a bit stubborn and often had to learn things the hard way), it was decided that he would be heeled over the A-Frame until he got the picture. He could jump on top of my SUV with no problem. That dog was such a nut that I could only throw a ball for him on grassy surfaces, because he would slide in on his belly chasing a ball and would rip up his underside on rougher surfaces. The old overangulated long-hocked Ambred dog likes to jump, but I cooled it with him after finding that he had mild unilateral dysplastia when he was a year old. No way he could have ever jumped like Otto could anyway - the structure and power just isn't there. The year-old Kirschental boy has just started to over a four-foot hedge for his ball rather than around it, and loves to jump. I don't think he'll be quite the jumper Otto was because it doesn't look like he'll be as powerfully built, but he's plenty coordinated and should certainly be proficient at jumping.

I co-own a male Malamute that can clear his 6 foot kennel fence from a standing start. One hop and he's over and out like he's on a pogo stick. We had to put a top on his run. He's not a fun dog LOL.

The world record high jump is 5'8" set by a greyhound last year. Most dogs actually "scale" the fence vs actually jumping over it. I have seen on TV dog's jumping over a verticial jump and I believe they scaled(using feet on side of boards) around 17', it was amazing to watch.

Maybe I should have entered Big Mac in a high jump contest when he was younger LOL. We knew he was going to be a jumper when he was only 3 or 4 months old after he cleared the top of a 4 foot high ex-pen wihout breaking a sweat LOL. Luckily we were right there to catch him before he took off. He doesn't scale the fence, he jumps over the top without touching the wire.

lol always nice to have a fence jumper! lol If he was my dog yes he would jump a six foot fence but if taken to compete couldn't jump over a ant hill.