Dog or Canine Terms +

A period of about 63 days in the dog, from fertilization to whelping: The gestation period of a dog can vary from 58 to 68 days.

Offspring: Nancy's pedigree dog's get showed its complete progeny in the chart.

To bark or to bay out: The hunger's dogs gave tongue when the rabbits ran through the hedge.

An accentuated lift of the forelimbs: Judy tried to teach her dog the goose step which was a special kind of marching step in which the forelegs were to be kept very straight and swing high.

To brush, comb, trim or to otherwise make a dog's coat neat: Jill always groomed her dog on Sundays to make it look wonderful!

To command a dog to keep close behind its handler, trainer, or owner: Mary told her dog Jeffy to heel, and it did.

The tarsus or collection of bones of the hind leg forming the joint between the second thigh and the metatarsus similar to the ankle in humans: The hocks are the joints located on the hind legs, similar to the ankles of a person.

The hocks are very important in the movement and stability of a dog.

The joint on the hind limb, or leg, located between the lower thigh and the rear pastern: The hock joint is very complex and is made up of many bones, including the tibia, fibula, and the talus.

A dog walks on its toes like a horse, not the soles of his feet like a bear or a human. The human wrist is analogous to the canine pastern joint, the back of the hand is the dog's pastern, and the fingers form the dog's paws.

The dog's toenail: Judy's dog had a cutaneous horn on its paw, but the veterinarian said that is was harmless.

One of the tough soles of the feet: Mary's dog had horny pads on its feet which had to be checked once in a while by the veterinarian.

The bone of the upper leg of a dog: A dog's humerus has different functions, like supporting its body, providing balance, and giving the dog strength in thrusting it forward.

Water on the brain: Hydrocephalus is an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid inside the ventricle of the brain, resulting in a great enlargement of the head.

One of the three bony components of the pelvic girdle of a dog: The ilium is the upper and widest of the three sections of the bones that form each side of the cartilaginous arch that supports the hind limbs of a vertebrate, like that of a dog.

The mating of closely related dogs of the same breed; Inbreeding in dogs can affect the health of the dogs in that recessive genes can be passed along to the next generation that may cause hereditary and genetic diseases along with ebbing and failing health.

One of the six upper and six lower front teeth between the canines: The contact of the incisors form the bite when eating