Dog gait is fascinating. My dog "single tracks" -- his front and rear prints converge. As he walks faster in snow (so I can see it), the prints converge from : : to . .

You can kind of see the principle in a photo on his (very old) page: http://corvis.catell.us/

When he runs free, it is a straight line of four prints and then a body length: . . . . . . . .

I'm surprised I can't easily find pictures of this. German Shepherds do this, as do many other dogs. http://www.dpca.org/JEC/illustrated_standard/Gait/gait.htm

In snow, it is obvious why this is advantageous. And yet I've never seen a museum use this print pattern in their "follow the stickers to a display" tricks.

> ... a dog ... step with their left hind leg, followed by their left foreleg, then the right hind leg and the right foreleg.

So let's see, that means it goes: left-rear, left-front, right-rear, right-front, left-rear, left-front, right-rear, right-front, ...

> that dog in the Finland museum is shoving its right front paw forward, followed by its back left paw.

Yes - according to the sequence he just listed, this is correct, it's just at a different part of the cycle.

The blogger appears not to know how to check his facts.