Tacking vs Tracking
Feb. 3rd, 2025 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeker I was working on a very tactical-looking "K9 Harness" and the sample had "Tacking Harness" tagged on it. That made sense to me, since tacking is the exact term you would use for equipment you're putting on your domesticated animal, like a saddle on a horse. EVERYONE knows that!
BUT in a rare display of usefulness, Google kept wanting to autocorrect it to "tracking harness". And it turns out, I'm now pretty sure the correct term is in fact tracking harness. If you google K9 Tracking, that is a whole thing. People are practice-tracking their dogs all over the place.
And it turns out "tacking" is actually equine-specific. Is it a horse? Tacking. Is it a donkey? Tacking. Is it a mule? Tacking. Zebra? Don't know. Dog? NOT TACKING. Even if you find a little saddle to put on your dog, turns out that's not tacking.
The more you know.
BUT in a rare display of usefulness, Google kept wanting to autocorrect it to "tracking harness". And it turns out, I'm now pretty sure the correct term is in fact tracking harness. If you google K9 Tracking, that is a whole thing. People are practice-tracking their dogs all over the place.
And it turns out "tacking" is actually equine-specific. Is it a horse? Tacking. Is it a donkey? Tacking. Is it a mule? Tacking. Zebra? Don't know. Dog? NOT TACKING. Even if you find a little saddle to put on your dog, turns out that's not tacking.
The more you know.