[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: the croup and clarification

  • From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: LIST <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:12:55 -0400

> Yes, but no one uses the term. No one.  You can see what fun the list 
> had with it...and it certainly isn't technically correct, as you said 
> in your post below.
> Certainly not the way one uses the terms tibia and patella, etc.
>     I have the book.  Joan Fox says it best...you can't learn 
> structure just by reading books, particularly when you don't 
> understand them.  You can
> quote all the books on earth...and talking is not the same as 
> writing.  I think if you were to get into a conversation with people 
> who truly understand
> dogs and start talking about a hucklebone, you'd be met with grins and 
> jokes, same as the way the list treated it--and then people would continue
> to use the terms they already use.
>     Have you EVER seen a critique, in any breed, in this country or in 
> England or anywhere else, that mentioned a hucklebone?
> Peggy
>
> Nancy Harper wrote:
>
>>Hi Peg,
>>One great book that uses the term "Huckle Bone"  is 'DOG LOCOMOTION AND GAIT
>>ANALYSIS" by Curtis M. Brown.  Page 27 of his book
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <nancy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Cc: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:31 PM
>>Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: the croup and clarification
>>
>>
>>Well, I don't know who you know...but I have never heard anyone, ever,
>>anywhere, talk about a hucklebone.  Especially if the speaker was
>>already using terms like patella, tibia, etc.  And I do know MANY people
>>who use those terms in ordinary conversation.  Then again, they know
>>what they are talking about, and expect their listeners to know, too.
>>
>>


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