This sound real-life Basenji represents a typical, good moving example. (The) sequence was traced frame by frame from slow-motion film taken with a specialized motion picture camera.

It only requires ten drawings to depict the complete cycle, because, at the diagonal trot, one side of the dog is a mirror image of the other side. Each illustrated sequence begins with the right front foreleg in vertical support, a unique format that allows the action of individual dogs to be compared phase-by-phase.