Canine Terminology – the skeleton
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By Wendell Sammet
In exhibiting and breeding it is essential to know your dog’s bone structure; this is the structure that allows him to trot, run and jump.
To explain your dog’s bone structure, it’s important to know the individual bones, and their name, shape and location.
Today you will discover how your dog’s legs are connected to his body by joints that allow him to trot, gallop, and jump. You will learn both the common and technical names of some of your dog’s individual bones, and you will be able to describe each of these bone’s locations. This information will be valuable because bones create both shape and movement. Learning all you can about your dog’s structure will help you in the future as a breeder/owner-handler, an exhibitor, or as a professional handler working for clients with different breeds but, most importantly, it will have an effect on your overall success.
Bones come in various shapes and sizes, long and short, thick and thin, small and large, and straight and curved. Bones are connected by joints which enable your dog to move. It helps to think of joints as a hinge on a door. The hinge allows the door to swing open wide or shut tight but without this hinge or joint the door cannot swing or move. The functional components of your dog are the forequarters and the hindquarters with all four limbs equally balanced in proportions, without exaggeration, for ideal movement.
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on Mar 14 2021. Filed under Current Articles, Featured.
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