On the police dog agility course, there was an obstacle (a wall) that was about 8 feet tall; the dogs were supposed to climp up and over it, but the handlers (the officers) could help their dogs over it as it was quite tall and many of the dogs could not scale it on their own. Some dogs really tried to do it on their own and their handlers didn’t have to help them very much:
Other dogs, however, seemed to have no problem letting their handlers do most of the work for them:
Any idea of how strong you must have to be to lift a full grown German Shepherd dog straight up in the air, eight feet high?
Photo from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Police K-9 Trials held in Hillsboro, OR on August 2, 2008
