Kiba movie!!

[merimask]

 Omygosh I hope this works...


I bought a laser cat toy for Kumo.  Kumo ignored it utterly, as it smelled like neither catnip nor feathers.  Dinah is marginally more gullible and chased it a bit.  Kiba freaking LOVED it and I think it's very revealing that my dog is more prone to pounce at moving objects than the flipping kitties are.  Heh!

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[merimask.livejournal.com]

Hee! Isn't he so freaking funny? I turned the toy on & shined it in front of his paws, thinking "no way will he be dumb enough to chase it" but he immediately started to stomp on it.

Kiba is very graceful...which only makes all his clowning around even funnier. At least once a day he gets "happy" and stampedes all over the house like a crazed gazelle; leaping over furniture and bounding straight into the air.

Come any time..we're waiting for you! :-D

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Isn't it fun seeing how different gait and styles of movement can be between breeds, too? Zeus is I think in much the same weight range as Kiba, although more stockily built -- and you wouldn't expect to see it from such a squarely-built little beastie, but he has such a lightly bouncy prancing sort of gait that he almost seems to be minceing half of the time. It's a little comical to see this sturdy beast moving so delicately -- until the first time you see him on deep snow and it all makes sense, because that bounciness has him just leaping effortlessly through drifts like a huge gray bunny.

Jake, now, he really showed the long-haul-endurance nature of mals opposed to sprinter-sibes; he'd move with a very wolfy sort of lope that had not an ounce of wasted movement. Not too fast or flashy but he could just keep going like that effortlessly all day. And Biscuit, well, she just has this funny rolling gait like a sailor who hasn't quite gotten his land-legs back yet. Not the most graceful thing, but she just trundles along like a muscle-bound little tank. :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Most of the spitz breeds DO seem to prance a bit. The Samoyed is even *supposed* to prance...it's right in the breed standard that they have a prancing gait.

My Aussies had no-nonsense wolf-lopes...they could keep up a smart flying trot for miles and miles. Kiba is so beautiful in motion though...I swear his gait is perfect. His paw prints are perfectly aligned (back paw ends up in the front paw print every time)and on the beach I've paced off a 12 foot gap between prints when he runs all-out...his reach is amazing. I need to make a movie of him racing around because he coils & uncoils his back like a cheetah.

Pit bulls certainly are like solid little tanks...they're so sturdy. It's a damn shame the breed is being so badly misused & twisted by amateur breeders with bad motives, because there's a lot of good in those dogs.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, more Kiba movies please! I'd love to see him running, those guys are so beautiful in full-on motion.

And it really is heartbreaking what's been happening to the bully breeds, properly bred and raised they can be both grand working dogs and the sweetest family pets you could hope for. Although there are always little glimmers of hope -- I was pleased to see APBTs on the cover of this month's Dog Fancy, for instance, and have you seen Diane Jessup's program to find and train shelter bullies that have sufficient drive to be excellent detection K-9s?