When I watch a cat that is walking or running, it does so in a directly forwards motion. It knows where it is going. They say – so I have heard – that if you put a person into a featureless desert and told them to walk their way to safety that they would eventually end up roughly where they started because their stride is uneven and favours one side. I have never been left in such a situation – though I have been in a desert – so I have to take what is said as something close to the truth. Maybe this lopsidedness is because we are right / left handed. Maybe. And maybe this has nothing to do with this: why don’t dogs walk straight ?
Winston does go forward – with a surprising momentum – but while doing this he is also going to the right. It’s as if he were asked to walk / trot North but ends up on a heading on NNE. Why ? Are dogs right-handed ? I haven’t seen a dog that veers to the left (voluntarily that is). Why would a dog have one dominant side for walking or doing anything else ? Apart from the begging thing with the paw that most dogs I’ve known do, for what other reason would they have a dominant leg unless they are right/left handed ? Do wild dogs have such favoured limbs ? Has Man encouraged this through the desire to make dogs beg ? Did dogs that did not beg become extinct due to natural selection (and hunger) so limb favouritism become ‘de riguer’ ? It’s not like they ‘high five’ when they meet either is it ? Or maybe it’s just Winston.

could be the inbreeding.
But then most people if you get them to close their eyes and walk veer off to the side. We’re crap at walking in a straight line 🙂
Our bulldog pulls to the left when running.
Scientists have observed left-handed and right-handed traits in nature so I don’t think it has anything to do with inbreeding.