Every year some of my GSD friends ask me to look into my crystal ball and predict the main winners of the upcoming Sieger Show. It might be fun to pretend that I’m clairvoyant, but my prognostications really are based on more mundane things: my background as an SV judge; I know the judges who [...]
Confusion Continues
Fred Lanting
This is a follow-up article to the one I wrote entitled “Osteochondrodysplasias” in February of 2004. While that was a rather long piece, it still did not address all that people want to know about the subject. Nor will this, but at least we can look at some other aspects, including a little [...]
Osteochondrodysplasias, Leg Deformities, and Dwarfism in the Canine
(Part 2 of a series on dwarfism)
© 2004, Fred Lanting
There has been renewed interest in the subject of “abnormal” bone lengths, joints, angles between limbs, and related phenotypic variations from what I have called “the ancestral type”. We need to establish some definitions of terms before entering into [...]
Part of a Set of Articles on Dwarfism
by Fred Lanting
(original version appeared in Dog World [US], Dec. 1984)
Dwarfism is a condition of abnormally small stature, and usually is characterized by altered body proportions. Dachshunds, Basset Hounds, and Corgis are examples of achondroplastic dwarfs; they have more or less normal-sized torsos and heads but shortened [...]
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