moderate hip dysplasia - Page 2

The fact that a dog jumps does not mean the hips are not bad, it just means the dog is good at masking pain, not exactly a trait that is always passed on either!   My Tiekerhook dog had the same OFA rating  and he was very good at masking pain too.  There were many people who wanted to breed their bitches to that dog, at the time he was one of the very few Tiekerhook dogs in this country, and he was a great dog for sport or real work,  but I refused to breed  him because of those hips, and I'm glad because I saw how much pain he was in when he was 10 and I had to do a hip replacement.   A lesser dog would not have been able to mask the pain for so long, I would not like to be responsible for knowingly breeding a dog with hips like that. 

"She also leaped from my moving pick-up truck at 2 years old, I had her and about 4 others in the back of the truck with the cap on it, and she opened it and jumped out, I think I was going about 25 mph, things like that don't figure in do they..."

Are you saying the dog would have known  not to jump from the truck if she had bad hips?   Clever dog.

 Get the Xrays redone by a vet that knows how to scan German SHepherds' hips for OFA.  You can't tell much because the positioning is horrible.