For anyone wondering how royally screwed his anatomy actually is, out of 10, 500. "His movement hurts almost all biomechanical principles of dog locomotion," says Professor Fischer. "It is not only the almost plantigrade position of the hind foot but - as we know from the hundreds of dogs we have studied - it is also the position of the thigh. The hind foot and femur [thigh bone] move in matched motion, which means that the femur in this dog is placed in a most unfavourable, almost horizontal, position at touchdown." pedigreedogsexposed.blogspot.c… Here's a run down The sharp direction change in his spine is caused by a hemivertebrae, a wedge shaped vertebrae that doesn't fit in with the rest, his tail also has some, which is why it curls so tightly. His "manly calves" are actually his body's failing attempt to keep his hocks from hitting the ground when he moves by developing more muscle to hold them up. His massive scapulars were actually proportionally normal at birth/hatching but to support his collapsed rear the muscles on his front half were forced to become much larger, causing ossifications to form where they attach (the same thing that happened to medieval archers/ happens to modern archers with stupidly high poundage bows [yes I'm looking at you Gary]). Despite his massive size his heart can still handle pumping blood and is pretty well fully functioning (tiny heart murmur but nothing huge). The most obvious of his problems is also the one that effects him the least, his face actually still works, in fact, his lower tusks are actually quite useful for fishing. Chance are no one picked up on this one detail, but his face shape is more southern, this is, again, muscle attachments becoming larger, in this case his sagital crest becoming larger to support the weight of his jaw (because physics says so, leverage and stuff). Not pictured- that weird wobble his hocks do when he walks. So how did he get this way? Inbreeding, and lots of it his dad, grandpa and great grandpa are all the same guy He also has little to no immunity against disease, another trait inbred animals often have. Pls don't steal my broken brain child, he precious v-v