On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:12:06 +0200, "Thomas de Groot"
<tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> 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.

That is my problem. The sheep dog in Warp's photo is keeping low so not to spook
the sheep until it needs to go into action. (That famous UK TV series "One man
and his dog")
Warp says that he wants a menacing pose. I'm not too sure what though :(
It's not too difficult to read animal posture but writing it is harder :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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