Pigeon Toes

[TillynPip]

Haven't posted for ages but wonder if anyone can help. Can any knowledgeable whippet owner/breeder tell me if they've ever come across a pigeon toe'd whippet and whether this a genetic fault or caused by trauma or even lying awkwardly in the uterus. To clarify pigeon toe'd, I mean front feet that turn inwards as I have researched this and some references state pigeon toes that turn outwards which seems a contradiction! Would this be deemed as a 'fault' in the showing ring? Thanks in anticipation.

 

[bertha]

Haven't posted for ages but wonder if anyone can help. Can any knowledgeable whippet owner/breeder tell me if they've ever come across a pigeon toe'd whippet and whether this a genetic fault or caused by trauma or even lying awkwardly in the uterus. To clarify pigeon toe'd, I mean front feet that turn inwards as I have researched this and some references state pigeon toes that turn outwards which seems a contradiction! Would this be deemed as a 'fault' in the showing ring? Thanks in anticipation.

It's fault in the show whippet, their feet should turn neither in or out. Nothing to do with what happens in the uterus, a fault that means it's inherited.