This is a pretty good example:





No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get it away from him. He's still prancing around the yard with the damn thing...

what is that like 4x's his length! how cute!

It's probably about a third his weight, too. There's a bigger one out there, I'll see if he's interested in picking it up a little later...

YAY Loki!!

HA! What an awesome dog! Now if he can manage to hold the grip, you could use a treat to get him lifting it as a workout.

Yeah I've been thinking about using some of the hand weights we have in the basement to see how much he can hold. They're bred to be herders but they're in the same family as Greater Swiss and Bernese mountain dogs, which are both huge cart-pulling dogs, so some of that musculature has transferred over. As a 60 pound average-weight dog breed, the record for cart pulling for these guys is 700 pounds, so...Yeah.

actually the look on his face appears to be him waiting for you to toss it so he can go "fetch"

I did a few times. I got tired of throwing the stick before he got tired of bringing it back.