A stamp examples? - Page 2

This has been discussed a few times here before. Search the message board, you will find some interesting posts on the subject. For example, people have posted personal results where dogs previously a-stamped with a1 to a3 hips received OFA Good. A few people got OFA Excellent and Fair back from various previous results, ie some times a2 comes back as Fair, sometimes a3 comes back as Good. The only think I have not heard yet was an a2 or a3 getting Excellent. It is not an exact science. Quality of X-ray plays such a huge role... Most of the graphs out there comparing a-stamps to OFA or FCI ratings are not correct. I can send you an example of an a3 rating, definitely not mildly dysplastic as some like to put the a3. Super positioning, so that was not the reason for the rating. In Germany it is nearly impossible to get a rating changed, whereas with the OFA that is pretty easy. One of the vets I use in North America has re x-rayed dogs that previously got a failing grade and came back with passing grade, up to OFA Good. He X-rays very well and is known for it. Another vet I use had his own Lab Penn-hipped and the dog came back with 80% or so, but failed OFA. Good to know that you can get the X-ray back from OFA, I did not know that. The OFA destroys the X-rays after evaluation. IMO rather tragic, because a huge knowledge base is lost that way.