On the day we brought her home Chloe astounded us...she leaped over our 5-foot high fence from a sitting position. Pam saw it the first time, but we both saw it the second time. Simply amazing. Luckily for us, Chloe's fence leaping was limited to the first day and she was easy to get back.
While her fence-leaping ability was curtailed she proved her agility again when she leaped through the window of a screen door from a sitting position on our new covered, screened-in porch and deck combination. Luckily, the screen guy had not yet gotten there.
The funny thing about this wonderful dog that in spite of her agility, she refuses to leap into my truck...she wants to be lifted. She has leaped into the truck in the past, so we know she can do it, but I think she just enjoys the contact with us. When she gets fed, she insists on a couple of minutes of good, solid petting before she begins to eat.
What raises most people's eyebrows, however, is that this Tennessee Treeing Brindle will go to our bedroom and get her "bed" (a large brown pillow beside our bed) and pull it to the living room, where the family congregates after dinner. Once on the bed she quickly falls asleep and only hell and high water will get her up. Now I just have to train her to bring it back to the bedroom at the end of the evening.
