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]