Lucia Robinson and her dog Jack. Jack is such an accomplished jumper that he will literally leap as high as you can hold your hand, if you've got a treat in it.
Jack came into Lucia Robinson's life nine years ago. "He's part Blue Heeler and part Australian Shepherd and I got him from a man who owned both parents, down in Bonney Lake," said Robinson.
She liked Blue Heelers but didn't want that intense a dog and Jack was the "mellowest one in the whole litter."
Jack is not an "Alpha dog, he gets along with everybody and he likes to run, though he's slowing down. At nine, I zig zag through the park and all the way along the beach and by the end he's just trotting along."
Jack gets senior dog food now, "Whatever they sell at the Morgan Thriftway that's the senior brand."
He enjoys treats of all kinds," even Mike and Ike jelly beans," Robinson said laughing.
Jack is an amazing jumper according to Robinson. "He can jump so high. If you are holding some food up, he jumps straight up with all four feet and can grab whatever you're holding as high as you're holding it. Or he used to be able to."
"Whenever we would have people over, he'd be out on the back porch and the window is about this high (four feet) and he would just keep jumping up to see who was inside. Over and over, spy hopping like whales do."
Jack started out being the dog for Robinson's daughter Anna, "but I feed him so he's mine."
Jack's best friends are Lucky a golden retriever black lab combo, and Daisy is a brown pointy eared mutt.
True to his love of leaping and chasing, Jack loves tennis balls. "He will chase tennis balls until he's exhausted," Robinson said, "He's not a dog that likes to be petted. You show your love for him by throwing tennis balls for him."
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