Hip Xrays- Rating Guesses? - Page 5

Forgot to mention:

BITTE SIND NETT ZU EINANDEN

translates:

PLEASE, BE KIND TO EACH OTHER

For Ragnarok, who is no native German speaker, it´s

BITTE SEID NETT ZU EINANDER ( you have been almost correct )

Ah, thank you Susie. I took German in school and that's the best I could remember.

Susie, I did not send them to SV. I would be shocked if they got less than A1, however. I've found SV to be more generous in ratings than OFA, but not always. If OFA says excellent, I can't see SV saying less than normal. OFA doesn't hand out too many excellent ratings. I don't think they grade as many excellents as SV does A1. Never formally researched that, though.

They really do rate different, that´s because I asked -

I don´t care about the differences of "a normal" or "a fast normal", and I don´t care about the differences of "OFA excellent", or "OFA good" -
different rating systems, not really comparable, but at the end = good, functional hips in all of those cases, no matter the final rating ( and at least for me it´s about nature + nurture ).

I made the experience that some dogs are rated OFA fair, although expected as "not allowed" in Germany, on the other hand some dogs were rated "noch zugelassen" in Germany, but rated with "severe hip dysplasia" instead of "fair" in the States.

Those dogs are "edgy", no matter the country, that said when thinking about the total amount of GSDs maybe the breeders should stay away from "OFA fair" and "SV noch zugelassen".

I get so baffled and irritated when I hear/read breeders refusing a FANTASTIC dog because they're OFA fair or fast normal or whatever. Breeding is not an x-ray competition!

Susie, I totally agree that functional and non - dysplastic is fine regardless of grade. Once or twice I've seen/heard a dog doing better via OFA but that is the exception, in my experience. However, I have seen far MORE cases where someone isn't happy with an OFA fair so they submit to SV and get a fast normal. I have seen far fewer cases of an NZ. I know one who got mild/moderate via OFA and got NZ via SV. There is a lot of "If they don't pass OFA send them to Germany," going on here. That's what is so frustrating about ratings- the lack of universal grading system with clear scientific basis.