Wobble/hocks - Page 4

I looked pretty hard to get hock video this weekend :)
In this, checking for lameness, they give some nice closeups.

Thanks for sharing video, that a nice puppy....

Thanks for the vid Lineage, but Nans for me that is not a

nice puppy ...  He exhibits everything I don't like in ASL type.

He is unbalanced; too bulky;  too long;  too low.  His head is

too narrow, his feet too long, his pasterns too weak.

From a training point of view he's way too old to be rushing

about at the end of his lead like that (brain dead ?).

Frankly his hocks are the least of his problems.

To once again use AKC show terms - yikes- we use the term "loose hocks" for "wobbly" dogs and of course cowhocks for dogs who "dust " their hocks when they move. A dog doesn't necessarily need to be cowhocked to "dust" although many are. Some simply move too close behind.  Most cowhocked dogs also turn out their rear feet when standing and moving. The opposite of that is what we call bandy hocked meaning the rear feet turn in and the hock joints point east and west.  A given dog can have either cowhocks or loose hocks or both. I think most dogs of any breed with obvious rear end issues have more than just one fault going for them. For every action, a reaction thing.

At Hund:  a pretty puppy although I was not fond of the unsure attitude.  Hope he/she grows up to be everything they want.  But for the age I think he looks pretty nice;  given the horrific growing pains they go through.  Nan

Simon the Great Pyrenees has hyperextended hocks

CARPAL BILAT HYPEREXTENSION 3

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Watching those vid's posted by Lineage is really heart braking!!!

It is, Cutaway, I agree.  Not sure what it has to do with the Topic,

however.    This clearly has something to do with the tendons and

muscles in all four legs being underdeveloped in some way or

there being some other medical problem.  Dogs in video are not

actually 'cow-hocked';  they seem to be what America terms "hock

walkers".  We do not see this in the UK and I hope we don't.

There was a video of a puppy at the Czech Kennel Gim where the

pup may have grown up like this, his hocks were flattened to the

ground when he stood, and I said at the time I thought that was

wrong and very worrying.  But it was not about being cow-hocked

and I doubt there was any connection. 

Don't know of any cases of true "Wobblers Syndrome" in GSDs, btw,

though I have known a Dobe who had it.