Dogs don't have four legs. They just walk using their arms.

Ok go brush your teeth now and get in bed.

+1. Just more liberal propaganda, trying to deny dogs their right to have and bear arms.

Bump.

Try running on your arms.

an armadillo has arm as well

George Orwell defined legs as limbs used for propulsion rather than manipulation. That's why the birds counted as 4 legs rather than 2

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I tried to by my dog pants, but couldn’t decide what type to get. Now I find out he really just needed teo shirts?

Darn, someone beat me to this! I don't know why that exact line has always stuck with me from Animal Farm but it has.

Semi-related note, another mistake people often make is saying that dogs and other quadrupedal animals have "backward" knees. Nope, look at your dog's hind leg, that "backward knee" is his ankle. Dogs walk up on their toes and their heels are way off the ground when they are standing. Their knees go "forward" same as ours.

That was positive propaganda so the birds wouldn't be branded bad.

Many birds actually use their legs more for manipulation than propulsion. An eagle for example! It grabs and kills the prey and flies back to its nest, no walking.

You're missing the gist of the line Hardloper quoted. Propulsion entails movement of the whole creature generally, not just walking. The eagle still primarily uses its mouth to pick things up and move things around, the things we two-legged animals do with our forelimbs or arms/hands ("manipulation"). It uses its forelimbs (wings) to propel it through the word, in this case flying ("propulsion.") That's why birds were considered to be on the good side of "four legs good, two legs bad."

Luckily there were no chimpanzees on the farm in England, since their forelimbs do a bit of both. I suppose also elephants would be considered five-limbed, with a trunk being a limb of manipulation but having four limbs of propulsion, so they'd be good to go on Animal Farm. At least, at first. Hardloper can probably attest to how sancrosant the "four legs good, two legs bad" rule ended up being.

I don't dispute that a bird's wings count as legs, only that its legs always do.

While it's true that an eagle may manipulate things with its beak, the legs themselves are more for manipulation than propulsion.

There is also the ostrich problem

WTF? Ostriches are indeed birds and have wings.

That's good to know. I'm gonna come up with a true dog shoe. A really jacked up stiletto in 12A width.

I don't know if you've been paying attention, but they don't use their wings for propulsion and are therefore bad.

Can we talk about bats? Bats can fly and that is awesome.

We seem to have come some distance from dogs. I still haven't seen anyone running on their arms.

Chimpanzees

Here you go. The women are actually faster on average here: