Kathy wrote:
>Turns out the Clydesdale is a slang term someone used to refer to the
>Bulldog body type.  Either way you look at it, it is a big ferret.  The
>Whippet/Greyhound (in the U.K.) ferret has a long sleek/slim body type.
 
I can't help but think that everything would be greatly simplified if
people just used the long-existing adjectives for such body types used in
comparative mammalian anatomy for any types of critters: "gracile" ones
are the slender ones, and "robust" are the bulky ones.  Put me next to
Callista Flockheart; she's gracile; with my weightlifter's limbs
(seriously), tendency toward torso fat, and large and dense bones I am
robust.  We have and have had robust ferrets like Sherman, gracile like
Warp, and most between.
[Posted in FML issue 3317]