The stern or tail is not inconsequential. If that were the case, Mother Nature certainly made an engineering error in nearly every warm blooded mammal and in most of her cold blooded, footed creatures. From the lowest lizard to the otters, nearly all have tails.
Posterior Judgement
Fanciers and Judges make a great to-do over the dog’s hindquarters but can they really recognize a sound, strong pelvic girdle and pelvic limb construction? Although breed blueprints revolve around specialization demanding differing angles to include descriptive terms, such as sweep of stifle or great length from hip to hock, unimpaired hindquarters construction is the same, no matter the breed. First,...