How bendy are other people's puppies...?
The reason I ask is that Alice, our 7-month-old puppy, seems to be more cat than dog when it comes to how she's built. For starters, she does the cat thing of flopping so she hinges in the middle when you pick her up, whereas most dogs are a fairly solid lump. But her hips also rotate so that she can stand completely vertical - not with slightly-bent back legs like most dogs that rear up, but fully erect. Of course she can't balance like that, but it's a bit odd that she can do it at all.
And most puzzling of all, her back legs seem to be able to do full splits. She doesn't stick them out sideways like a gymnast would, but she'll often lie on the floor with her knees out at 90 degrees to her body and her tummy fully on the floor. And when she sits, especially if the floor's a bit slippery like on tiles, she'll usually have her back feet stuck out to the side instead of tucked underneath.
She was quite bow-legged when we got her as a puppy. That seems to have got better as she's got older, but she still seems to be very flexible. How normal is this? We're not really worried about it or anything - just curious about how common it is.
