Warren Dog Who Can Jump 23 Feet Headed To World Championship Of Dock Diving

WARREN, NJ — She leaps, she bounds, she is Bella, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever who lives in Warren. Her owners describe her as a “crazy dock diving dog.”

Bella won her two qualifying heats on June 9 and won her division championship on June 11 in the Meadowlands, where she also registered the longest jump of the weekend at 22 feet.

Her personal best is 23 feet 5 inches.

She also just recently qualified for the world championships of dock diving and will be competing in Orlando, Florida in December.

Bella is 16 months old and her owner, Paul Coppa of Warren, said she is bundle of fun and energy.

Her love of dock diving started at an early age.

Coppa took Bella down to his beach house in Ortley Beach where he was playing with a toy with her.

“I was holding the toy and she would get this look in her eyes,” Coppa said. “She is a water dog to begin with but was just learning to get in the water when the toy fell off the deck and she jumped right into the water with no fear.”

Coppa immediately went to Lowe's and bought plywood to make Bella her very own dock off his deck.

“The next thing I knew, she was jumping like crazy,”Coppa said.

Along with her dock diving, Bella enjoys playing on the beach and chasing around her four cat buddies at home.

(Images and video via Paul Coppa)

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