Hip/Elbow prelims - Page 1

12 month old male, sedated.  Will post the results once folks have a chance to look and post their thoughts.  Was going to send to the SV, but decided to wait and see what OFA said.

Look good to me.  best of luck  Nan

good to excellent is my guess by the dimness of my poor eyes...

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Best guess - hips good to excellent. I'm not great with elbows, they look normal to me.

Lookin' good. 

The official prelim results from OFA say Good hips, unilateral grade 1 elbow dysplasia with DJD.  It looks like there is one tiny osteophyte on the Left elbow.  I didn't see it until I had already sent the x-rays in and zoomed in at home.  Most likely due to an injury.  He was lame on his left front leg for about 2 weeks when he was 6 months old.  Anyone have experience with SV with this kind of thing?  Here is a close up view of both elbows:

Oh wow, I didn't see that until you blew it up. I looked really hard at the elbows, too. That is really borderline...I just saw one like that pass. I was surprised they passed it, but I think it was really similar to this one. I'll see if I can find it. 

That's one reason I hate OFA elbow ratings. Every other system has grades...not OFA. You pass or fail, and whether it's a tiny tiny thing like this, affecting the dog not at all, or FCP or UAP, they view it the same.  I'm trying to dog shop right now and really watching elbows because if there are a few fast normals or nz's on a ped, I can be pretty much assured that if the dog produces that for me, OFA will fail them and I'll be replacing puppies for what Europe considers a passing grade. Frustrating endeavor. 

I'd send them to the SV, particularly since it's only one. I can't see them being worse than fast...shocked if they were NZ. 

Nope did not see that either;  So sorry.  Best of luck  Nan

I agree, send them to the SV.

I'll let you know what the SV says.  Thank you for the input!