Organization of the body

Before you begin to understand whether a dog is up to standard or not you should give consideration to the anatomical peculiarities of its body.

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Points

Points are single parts of dog body that are of great importance when working abilities and exterior of a dog are evaluated. Below you can see an illustration that will help you to identify advantages or disadvantages, deficiencies and abnormities in the breed’s representatives.

Skeleton

Structural features of the dog’s skeleton also affect the development or absence of disqualifying deficiencies in the dog. The abnormalities in framework structure of fore and hind limbs or scaffold of skull may be observed especially often in the Rottweiler. Scaffold of skull determines not only exterior of the dog but has effect on its guard abilities. So, for instance, the narrowness of the jaws is detrimental to stiffness and strength of snatch in Rottweilers. Atypicality of the scaffold of the skull may result in the dog’s disqualification.

Points of Rottweiler: 1. lip; 2-lobe of nose; 3 – dorslim of nose; 4 – muzzle; 5 – bridge from frons to muzzle; 6 – eye; 7 – front; 8 – cheekbone; 9 – parietal part; 10 – ear; 11 – hindhead (inion); 12 – neck; 13 – withers; 14 – back; 15 – coupling; 16 – croup; 17 – seat (ischial tuberosity); 18 – shoulder; 19 – chest (thoracic cage); 20 – forepart of chest; 21 – forearm; 22 – wrist; 23 – metacarpus; 24 – arm; 25 – elbow; 26 – bottom of chest; 27 –belly; 28 – flank; 29 – thigh; 30 – stifle; 31 – cnemis; 32 – calx; 33 – hock; 34 – shank; 35 – hindpaw; 36 – tail

Skeleton of Rottweiler:

1 – upper jaw; 2 – lower jaw; 3 – skull; 4 – bregma bone; 5 – inion; 6 – cervical vertebrae; 7 – dorsal vertebrae; 8 – lumbar vertebrae; 9 – caudal vertebrae; 10 – shoulder blades; 11 – humerus; 12 – antebrachial bones; 13 – carpal bones; 14 – basidigital bones; 15 – phalanges; 16 – ribs; 17 – costal cartilages; 18 – brisket; 19 – haunch bone; 20 – thigh joint; 21 – astragalus; 22 – stifle; 23 – shin bone; 24 – calf-bone; 25 – bone of heel; 26 – hock; 27 – tarsus; 28 – metatarsus; 29 – dactyls

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Internals
During examination of anatomical peculiarities of a dog you need to familiarize with the distribution and constitution of its internals. It should be pointed out that abdominal cavity organs are not protected by the skeleton therefore they are most woundable under negative mechanical effects from outside.