The Jumping Poodle

The day would not be completely complete without mentioning the presence of an amazing jumping poodle I came across on Blizzard of '06 Day Two. He lives in the West Village. This is the springiest dog I have ever seen in my life; he practically levitates. The Rudolf Nureyev, the Jock Soto, the ________ [fill in name here] of large poodles.

I saw him jump almost two feet off the ground—not his front legs: his entire body. The move was entirely cartoonish.

He has extremely lean muscles, and, I was told, has been jumping this high since he was a puppy. You would not know this just by looking at him. Major power dog, just not the pit bull kind.