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A dog and owner at a Rally competition. Rally obedience (also known as Rally or Rally-O) is a dog sport based on obedience. [1] It was originally devised by Charles L. "Bud" Kramer from the obedience practice of "doodling"—doing a variety of interesting warmup and freestyle exercises.
A dog being scolded is able to grasp the message by interpreting cues such as the owner's stance, tone of voice, and body language. This communication is two-way, as owners can learn to discern the subtle differences between barks or meows, and there is a clear difference between the bark of an angry dog defending its home and the happy bark of ...
Research has shown that there are individual differences in the interactions between dogs and their human that have significant effects on dog behavior. In 1997, a study showed that the type of relationship between dog and master, characterized as either companionship or working relationship , significantly affected the dog's performance on a ...
Dog fanciers use the term "breed type" in the sense of "qualities (as of bodily contour and carriage) that are felt to indicate excellence in members of a group". [17] "Breed type" is specific to each dog breed's written standard. A dog that closely resembles the appearance laid out in the standard is said to be "typey". [18] "Type" also is ...
Swing dogs or point dogs are directly behind the leader (one dog if the team is in single hitch). They swing the rest of the team behind them in turns or curves on the trail. (Some mushers use the term swag dog to denote a team dog.) Team dogs are those between the wheelers and the swing dogs, and add power to the team. A small team may not ...
Conformation in dogs refers solely to the externally visible details of a dog's structure and appearance, as defined in detail by each dog breed's written breed standard. [1] [2] [3] A dog that conforms to most of the items of description in its individual breed standard is said to have good conformation.
There are structural differences between the limb anatomy of plantigrades, unguligrades, and digitigrades. Digitigrade and unguligrade animals have relatively long carpals and tarsals, and the bones which correspond to the human ankle are thus set much higher in the limb than in a human. In a digitigrade animal, this effectively lengthens the ...
A street dog on the Moscow Metro. Animals have been observed numerous times to ride public transport as a means to reach a desired destination: Street dogs in Moscow use the subway as a means of transportation, [5] and Malchik, a subway stray dog, has its own statue in Mendeleyevskaya station.