Is there room for improv? Is there a certain set heighth for the arms to be lifted? Spread? I think I can see that, if the Dread is not a carnivore, he certainly mimics one; rather, perhaps, an omnivore (or mimicing an omnivore) for I sense a certain ursine quality. Yet it could be feline---our pea-eating cat, Tigr, rears like that when he stalks my wife. Is the head held back, or thrust forward. We needs to start posting pictures (and, well, taking pictures), and we are tempted to essay a Hamish and a Dread. Oh no, I just imagined a "Dread Hamish" where the Hamish pose is combined with the fearsome visage of a Dread. Like a kung fu vampire. In a kilt.