Chinese poodle uses its noodle to blitz canine stair-walking record
Shanghai fido finds four legs good, two legs better
A Shanghai poodle has crushed the Guinness World Record for dogs running up stairs on their hind legs, in video newly released online.
Arsenal’s owner Xu Ligang simply issued the commands ‘slow down’ while another person said ‘start’
The record-keeping organisation reported the feat was done on January 9 in Beijing, but the video was aired on state media over the Lunar New Year break.
WATCH: Arsenal is the fastest stair-climbing bipedal dog ever recorded
Fleet-footed dog breaks the world record!Arsenal is a 7-year-old dog, which equals to about 50-year-old person. He has only used his hind legs to climb 20 stairs and finished it in just 7.47 seconds.
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But the winning display set off questions among viewers who said the dog’s training would have involved suffering, and that it was bad for dogs’ backs to walk upright.
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Arsenal is not the only cute pooch that can walk upright. Videos online show Yin De Ping, a one-year old poodle that was walking wearing a school-bag, girl’s dress and sunhat in her native Sichuan Province.
The video emerged in March last year.
WATCH: Yin De Ping promenades in Sichuan
And by no means is that the earliest example of hind-leg walking dogs dressed as schoolgirls.
This white canine dressed for the races in a pink dress and sunhat combination with sunglasses was recorded walking hand-in-hand with its owner after stepping out.
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Finally, the bipedal pooch pushes a pram in the April 2014 video.
WATCH: Faith learned to overcome her challenges from birth
And in the US, Faith was born with deformed front legs but was trained to walk upright with peanut butter treats. She was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s program in 2008.
“She is a demonstration of what it looks like to persevere,” said Faith’s owner Jude. “What it feels like to say, ‘I can do what I want to do, nothing can stop me.”
