- This is an article on canine gaits, for other meanings see: gait (disambiguation).
A dog's gait is its quality of movement. It is given a great deal of importance in the breed standard of some breeds, of lesser importance in other standards, and in some breeds gait is not described in the standard at all. A breed standard (also called bench standard) in Animal fancy and Animal husbandry is a set of guidelines which is used to ensure that the animals Dog breeds are groups of closely related and visibly similar domestic Dogs with characteristic traits that are selected and maintained by humans bred from a known foundation
A dog judge must know the gait requirements in the Standard of the breed he or she is judging. A dog-Breed-show judge is a person that is qualified to evaluate Dogs at a Conformation show. The Miniature Pinscher, for example, must have what is called a hackney gait, reminiscent of the gait of a horse. This is an article on horse gaits for other meanings see gait (disambiguation. In working small breeds such as the Miniature Fox Terrier, a hackney gait is a serious or disqualifying fault. In animal breeding, a fault is a characteristic whose state or quality falls outside of the acceptable range for the attribute being judged The gait is very important in sled dogs and research by Matt Moore, DVM, shows that the diet of a dog will influence their gait.
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