Articles about great Rottweilers. Posted by Rottweiler-Dog-Breed-Store
Forelimbs of Rottweiler must be upright, muscular and not too spaced-apart. Properly developed limbs have a strong skeleton, well-defined articulations, strong elastic ligaments. When viewed sideways forearms must look upright. Angulation of legs increases the pressure the truck put on them as body mass forces not along the axis of the limb and therefore ligaments of joints are under great tension and muscles get tired very fast. The dogs with crooked legs have lower working capacity. There are several main structural parts of forelimbs: shoulder blade, bone of upper arm, bones of lower arm, metacarpus and paw. Shoulder blades are attached to the chest by muscles that must be systematically strengthened through training and motion because the weakness of muscle tone especially in big and heavy dogs adversely affect on their activity and working abilities. Lower edges of shoulder blades are connected by joints with humeruses. Such parameters as arm length and length of shoulder bone must be approximately same but the shoulder must be disposed so as elbow parts may almost touch the trunk. The distances from elbow to withers and from elbow to ground level must be equal. With optimal length and correct set of shoulder blade the fore limb is maximally pushed forward when Rottweiler is moving.
Rottweiler. Forelimbs. Structure and destination. - READ MORE!
