«A rather high percentage of loose bodies removed
from hock joints contain bone.
Not exact matches
The hind legs are parallel when viewed
from the rear and boast well - developed upper thighs and firm
hock joints.
Viewed
from the side, the
hock joint is well bent and the rear pasterns are well let down and perpendicular to the ground.
Hind legs long and muscular
from hip to
hock; short and perpendicular
from hock to ground; well angulated at stifle and
hock joints, which, like the elbows, incline neither in nor out.
This produces a moderate degree of angulation in the
hock joint, when viewed
from the side.
One very experienced colleague in the conformation ring used to check the
hocks of his favorite breed by grasping them (
from behind) at the
joints in such a way that the dog would not lift one leg to put the weight on the other.
The Hairless variety has hair on certain portions of the body: the head (called a crest), the tail (called a plume) and the feet
from the toes to the front pasterns and rear
hock joints (called socks).
Viewed
from the side, the hind legs have little apparent angulation and the
hock joint and metatarsals are directly beneath the hip
joint.