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1/7 As people seemed to like my post on dog gaits the other week (quite literally the most popular post I’ve ever written!), I thought I’d follow up with some musculoskeletal anatomy… #caninescience #dog #anatomy 
2/7 So, the main cool thing here is that your dog (along with most other mammals) has pretty much all the same parts you do. Some are in different numbers and different proportions, but it’s pretty similar…
3/7 This is by @satoshikawasaki & it is fabulous (ok, a little creepy). It shows a human compared to a horse: the front legs are similar to our arms, the back legs are similar to our legs, horses walk on the tip of a single finger/toe.
After being sent so many awesome videos, thought I’d do a little thread on dog gait. #dog #caninescience #caninebiomechanics ...
The slowest gait is the walk. Rogue here is doing a ‘normal mammal’ type walk. Back Left -> Front Left -> Back Right -> Front Right, footfalls evenly spaced in time.
I say ‘normal mammal’ as this is what the average horse-like mammal does. Slow/small/cold things (think hippo/mouse/crocodile) do a different walk. And primates when moving as quadrupeds do something different again.
