Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Remember my image "Cathy's World: on the streets"? there were a couple of 
> menacing wolfs there. Foxes would probably react identically. There is imo, 
> a difference in attitude between a predator ready to pounce on a victim and 
> one aggressive to another predator. In the first case, the ears will point 
> forwards to hear in addition to see the victim, in the second case the ears 
> lie flat back. Also, the attitude should be with the head in line with the 
> body in the first case (the better to jump). In the second case that would 
> depend on the action under way. When fighting, the sideways presenting of 
> the body is done for making oneself bigger (cats are good at that) but other 
> attitudes may also be used.

  I'm looking for a certain pose, not for a certain attitude of the
animal. The pose of the dog in that photo is basically exactly what I'm
looking for, regardless of what is going in inside the brain of the dog.

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