Flank: Loin and upper thigh.

Flews: Same as chops.

Forearm: Foreleg between elbow and knee.

Foreface: Front of head between eyes and
nose.

Forelock:  The  abundant tassel of hair
grown on the forehead and falling for-
ward over the eyes, as in the Sealyham
Terrier.

Grizzle: Greyish or mixed black and grey.

Ground colour: Background colour in parti-
coloured coat.

Handler: The person who takes the dog
into the ring at a show, or a field trial.

Hard mouth: A gun dog which damages
game with too hard a bite.

Hare-foot: A long narrow foot.

Harlequin:  Coat  of  white  background
with black patches.

Harsh: Stiff, wiry, hard texture coat.

Haunch: Hind quarter.

Heat: When a bitch is on heat it is meant
that she is menstruating.

Height:  From  the  withers  point  of
shoulders to the ground.

Hock: Joint on the back legs which juts
out backwards.

Import:  A dog imported into Australia
from its country of birth.

In-breeding: The mating of dogs that are
closely related.

In season: A bitch during the periods
(nor- mally twice a year) when she can be
mated.

In whelp: Pregnant.

Kennels: Home or breeding establishment
for dogs belonging to one person.

Knee: The joint on the front leg above
the pastern.

Knuckled over: Front legs bent forward at
the knees.

Leather: The skin of the external ear.

Leggy: Too high in the leg.

Line breeding: The mating of related
dogs.

Lippy: When the lips overhang more than
is correct.

Litter: All the puppies produced at one
birth.

  Liver: Dark reddish-brown colour.

Loin: The part of the body between the
ribs and the hips.
Long coupled: A dog long in couplings, as
the Dachshund.

Lumber: Carrying too much flesh.

Maiden: A bitch that has not had puppies.

Mask: A dark coloured muzzle.

Merle: Blue-grey with fine black markings.

Milk teeth: A puppy's first set of teeth.
Usually replaced from four months on.

Mongrel: Dog of mixed parentage.

Muzzle: The part of the head combining
the mouth and the nose.

Obedience  trial:  A  test of recognised
breeds  of  dog  in  which  they  are
examined on set obedience exercises.

Occiput: A protruding bone on top of the
skull.

Oestrum: A bitch gets her oestral periods about every six months.
The period of menstruation.

Otter tail: A dog whose tail is thick at the
root, and then tapers away, as in the
Labrador Retriever.

Overshot: Upper jaw and teeth protrude
beyond the lower.

Pad: Cushion-like soles of a dog's feet.

Party-colour: Distinct markings of the coat in two or more colours.

Pasterns: The part of the leg below the knee.

Pedigree: A list of the dog's ancestors for
four or more generations.

Pig jaws: Badly overshot jaws.

Plume: The long feathery hair of the tail,
as in Pekingese.

Points:   Units of scoring  for a cham-pionship.

Prefix: A prefix is usually attached to a
dog's name in order to identify him
with a particular breeder or kennels.

Prick ears: Ears that stand erect.

Proven: A dog or bitch which has proved
capable of siring or bearing puppies.

Purebred:  Ancestors  of one  breed  for
several generations.

Register: Where dog's birth and parentage, etc.,  are  recorded  with  the  governing canine authority.

Ruff: Long, thick hair around the neck
and shoulders.

Sable: Brown colour with black shadings.

Saddle: A black marking over the top of
the back and upper flanks.

Second thigh: The part of the hind leg
between hock and stifle.

Septum: The division between the nostrils.

Short coupled: Short of body.

Shoulders: The point at which the height
of the dog is measured, about the top
of the shoulder blades.

Sire:  The  male  parent  of  a  litter  of
puppies.

Snipey: Too narrow or too sharply pointed
muzzle.

Soft-mouthed: Gun dogs able to pick up
and retrieve game without damaging it.

Spay: To de-sex a bitch by removal of the
ovaries.

Specialty show: Run by a club devoted to
one breed only.

Stifle:  The  joint in  the hind leg of the
dog, which is equivalent to the knejoint
 in man.

Stop: The depression between the eyes.

Stud dog: A male dog kept for breeding
purposes.
Throaty: A dog with an excess of loose
skin about the tliroat.

Ticking:  Splashes of dark colour in a
white coat.

Training collar: Check or choke collar.

Trousers: Long feathering on the hind
legs.

Tuck-up: The raising line from the belly
up under the hindquarters.

Typey: True to type of breed.

T.D.: Abbreviation for tracking dog.

Undercoat: Soft woolly coat beneath the
outer coat.

Utility dog (U.D.): Highest of the three
degrees obtainable for obedience trials.

 Undershot: Lower teeth projecting beyond the upper teeth.

U.D.T.: Combined title for a dog that
has won Utility Dog and Tracking titles.

Wall eye: A blue eye, or blue with brown
or black in the iris.

Weedy: Too lightly formed, especially
around ribs.

Well let down: A marked degree of angu-lation of hock and stifle joints.

Well sprung: Well formed, particularly in the development of the chest, and "the
spring of the ribs.

Wheaten: Wheat-coloured.

Whelp: To give birth to puppies.

Withers: The point where the neck joins
the body.