Technical Terms and Topography for Dogs

Dog Topography for Young Students.

 

TECHNICAL TERMS APPLIED TO DOGS:

• Apple-head - A rounded head.
• Blaze - White mark up the face.
• Brisket - The part of the body in front of the chest.
• Butterfly-nose - A spotted nose.
• Button-ear - An ear whose tip falls over and covers the orifice.
• Cat-foot - A round, short foot, like a cat's.
• Cheeky - When the dog's cheek-bumps are strongly defined.
• Chops - The pendulous lip of the bulldog.
• Coat - The hair.
• Cobby - Well ribbed up; short and compact body.
• Condition - That state of body which shows the coat to be in a healthy state, the bones well covered, the body well rounded, the muscles hard, and the dog in the best of spirits.
• Cow-hocked - Hocks which turn in.
• Dew-claws - The superfluous claws that often appear above the feet on the inside of the legs.
• Dewlap - Pendulous skin under the throat.
• Dish-faced - When the dog's nose is higher than his muzzle at the stop.
• Dudley Nose - Flesh-colored.
• Elbow - The top joint of the front leg.
• Feather - The hair at the back of the legs and under the tail.
• Flag - The tail of a setter.
• Flews - Pendulous lips, as seen in a bloodhound.
• Frill - A mass of hair on the breast.
• Harefoot - A long foot, like a hare's.
• Haw - The red inside of the eyelid, as shown in bloodhounds, etc.
• Height - Measurement taken from top of shoulder to the ground.
• Knee - Joint attaching fore pastern and forearm.
• Leather - The skin of the ear.
• Occiput - The projecting bone or bump at the back of the head.
• Overshot - The upper teeth projecting beyond the imder.
• Pastern - Lowest section of leg, below knee or hock.
• Pig-jaw -  Same as overshot.
• Pily - A term applied to a soft, woolly coat next the skin, out of which springs a longer coat.
• Prick-ear - One that stands upright.
• Quality - Quality is that evidence of breeding which we see in champion dogs, namely, beauty of outline coupled with a fineness of individual points that characterizes the dog at once as being well bred. A horse, for instance, may be very strong and serviceable, yet, being rough and ungainly, is said to be lacking in quality.
• Rose-ear - An ear the tip of which turns back and shows the interior of the organ.
• Smudge Nose - A nose which is not wholly black, but not spotted, giving the appearance of some of the black having been rubbed off.
• Stern - The tail.
• Stifles - The top joints of the hind legs.
• Stop - The indentation below the eyes, which is most perceptible in the bulldog, but noticeable to a less extent in other breeds.
• Trace - Black line extending from occiput to tail.
• Tulip-ear - An erect ear.
• Type - Every breed of dogs is possessed of certain characteristics of form and feature that stamp it so indelibly that a typical specimen once being seen it is never forgotten. In the human race, for instance, we say a man has a face of Malay type, Chinese type, etc. The same applies to a dog.
• Undershot - The lower teeth projecting in front of the upper ones.