Yeah... Same thing happens when you want to claim something is biggest, fastest, or whatever. Usually, you can't say something as short as "this is the the longest bridge". Instead, you have to add all sorts of extra details, like "longest composite girder road bridge in [insert_country]" If you compare it with suspension bridges, rail bridges or check what neighboring countries have built, suddenly it's not that impressive any more. Keeping it snappy tends to be at at odds with the facts.

I've seen them to that, I guess maybe there's some finesse to it, but for the most part in my experience they've just kinda trotted away from the sound of the bag. Maybe a scamper, but the full gallop I've only seen them do when they were really spooked.

And yeah, they tend to run directly at an obstacle when it happens.