Today's extreme K9 is Buster!
"Buster the German short-haired pointer is barking up the right tree---any tree---to retrieve his toys. After the playful pup scrambled up a redwood tree chasing a squirrel, owner Bob Wilhelm stuck the dog's tennis ball up in the branches. "I didn't know if he's get the ball at all," Wilhelm says. But sure enough, Buster went for it. The powerful pooch gave himself a running start, took a flying leap, and dug his claws into the trunk's soft bark. Up and up he scooched until his head was eight feet off the ground. Then he knocked the ball down with his nose. Soon he retrieved all his toys the same way. Buster isn't just a tree climber---he's also a lifesaver. Buster alerted his owner's wife when her elderly mother suffered a heart attack.
Article from: National Geographic Kids 125 Amazing Animal Stories, p. 24-25
Pic from: http://www.charlesandhudson.com/archives/tree-backyard.jpg
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