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What's it called when the hair on a dog's tail sticks up when they are angry?
I know when dog's hair sticks up on their neck that is called their hackles. But, is there a word for when it sticks up on their tail?
It's called: mydogisangryandhishairstandsuponhistail
Edit: it's not the same as hackles, dictionary says the back of the neck, nothing about the tail:
hack·le 1 (hkl)
n.
1. Any of the long, slender, often glossy feathers on the neck of a bird, especially a male domestic fowl.
2. hackles The erectile hairs along the back of the neck of an animal, especially of a dog.
3.
a. A tuft of cock feathers trimming an artificial fishing fly.
b. A hackle fly.
tr.v. hack·led, hack·ling, hack·les
To trim (an artificial fishing fly) with a hackle.
Idiom:
get (one's) hackles up
To be extremely insulted or irritated.
[Middle English hakell, cloak, skin, plumage, possibly from Old English hacele, cloak, mantle.]
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