Sentences with phrase «hock joint»

Hock Joint well let down and appears almost straight.

The hind legs are parallel when viewed from the rear and boast well - developed upper thighs and firm hock joints.

The hocks are short to the feet, turning neither in nor out, with a well defined hock joint.

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).

From hock joint to ground perpendicular.

Tail bushy, with the last vertebra extended at least to the hock joint.

Viewed from the side, the hock joint is well bent and the rear pasterns are well let down and perpendicular to the ground.

Some dogs (mostly GSDs but occasionally a few others) are so unbalanced that they are unable to fully extend the hock joint.

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Shar Pei fever causes the hock joint to become swollen and painful.

The bones in the tail should feel straight and should reach to the hock joint or below.

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.

The upper thighs are well muscled and powerful, the stifles well bent, the hock joint well - defined and set low to the ground.

The head is rectangular and is set on an aristocratic neck; the ears can be natural or cropped, and the tail is broad at the base, tapers to a point, and reaches the hock joint when carried at ease.

The metatarsus (the unit between the hock joint and the foot) is short, strong and tightly articulated.

This produces a moderate degree of angulation in the hock joint, when viewed from the side.

On the head, front of the forelegs, and below the hock joints on the front of the hind legs, the hair is short and fine.

The natural tail is thick at the root (consistent with the required generous amount of bone), tapering to the end, and ideally not reaching below the hock joint.

The hock joints are somewhat rounded, not small and sharp in contour.

Hock joint is well let down.

When covering the foot with a sock, the sock should be tied lightly above the hock joint (back leg) or elbow (front leg) to keep it in place, otherwise it may slip off.

Hyperextension of the hock joints is sometimes seen in these straight - legged dogs and is evidenced in standing and walking.

This may be due to laxity of the ligaments in the hock joint.

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This leads to a temporary swelling of the hock joints (equivalent to ankle joints in humans), lethargy, vomiting, and fevers as high as 107 degrees.

Another common clinical sign often accompanying the fever is swelling of a joint, usually the hock joint.

Angulation of both stifle and hock joint is such as to achieve the optimal balance of drive and traction.

The hock joints are strong, well let down and do not slip or hyper - extend while in motion or when standing.

Some instructors «scoop» the dog into a sit position by simultaneously putting backward pressure on the dog's chest and forward pressure on the outside of the hind legs above the hock joint.

The hock joint and metatarsals lie in a straight line below the hip joint.

Hock Joint — Short and sinewy, with the angle of the hock joint moderately open.

The hock joint must be strong, well knit and firm, never bowing or breaking forward or to either side.

Viewed from the side, the hind legs have little apparent angulation and the hock joint and metatarsals are directly beneath the hip joint.

The dog's heel doesn't touch the ground, however; it is represented by the hock joint and the human foot becomes the dog's rear pastern, and the human toes are his rear paws.