Articles about American Pit Bull Terrier
...to start reading this article from the beginning please click on here....The elbows must be flat; humeruses are not to stick out in the joint, as, for example, in the English bulldog. Protruding humeruses can be easily put out and fractured.
The forearm must be shorter that the shoulder and be hard and massive, almost 2 times ticker than the shank. The arms and shoulders must withstand great pressure; therefore their strength is an asset.
The massive arms and elegant hind feet are the attributes to convey the impression about the dog at first sight. Besides, the fore limbs must be straight with powerful roundish bones. Metacarpi must not be bowed.
Chest and paws: the shoulder is little sloped back in such a way that a line drawn through the blade-bone must cross the back in the middle or still further. Metatarsus of the arm is straight, metacarpal joint is well-developed.
The hind limbs are very muscular (trained Pit Bull terrier can jump from stand up to 2 m high). Metatarsusi are relatively short. In powerful dogs, metatarsusi, hocks and large cannon-bones are usually light and springy.
Hind limbs must have sufficiently curved stifles, which give a possibility to kick hard with hind leg; supposed bee-line going from hip joint through the center of both the stifle and hock.
The disadvantage is the plane angle of genicular, because of what one can observe the following:
-Short, like on stilts, step;
-Insufficient push with hind limb;
- Set of paw as in caws’ (with dactyls opened sideways);
- Barrel set of paw (with dactyls directed in).
Gait of the dog is to be light and springy. Amble is a fault....to continue reading this article please click on here...
