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Poetry in Motion • The dog's strong hind-end muscles allow them to jump up to three times its own standing height at the shoulder. Some dogs are capable of leaping tall fences in a single bound. • A running human of medium height has a 6- to 8-foot stride. A medium-sized dog, running full tilt, can cover 10 to 15 feet with each stride. • Because dogs don't have a rigid collarbone, they can flatten their upper bodies and squeeze through what seem to be impossible small spaces--like shallow holes dug under fences. |
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