Thread: Very interesting food for thought.

Originally Posted by ethos

Andrew Worth did a NZstudy on comparing methods: An assessment of the agreement between the New Zealand Veterinary Association Hip Dysplasia Scoring System and the PennHIP Distraction Index in Ger... - PubMed - NCBI




Ruff, no argument that actual performance is a good yardstick , but there can be significant variation in which dogs will still work well even with poor hips, which they can pass to their progeny In order to try and eliminate HD scientific testing - preferably detecting early- must still have its place.

So what they are saying is they THINK it might be better, unfortunately for the $600 odd dollars it costs to do Penn Hip, I would want more than we think it is better, Penn hip has been around for many years yet there is still only a very small percentage of breeders doing Penn hip, I would like to know why, I would also like to know if, as I asked in the original post do the Penn hipped dogs then go on to produce sounder offspring, in theory they should....... but do they ?

Originally Posted by Ducdog

So what they are saying is they THINK it might be better, unfortunately for the $600 odd dollars it costs to do Penn Hip, I would want more than we think it is better, Penn hip has been around for many years yet there is still only a very small percentage of breeders doing Penn hip, I would like to know why, I would also like to know if, as I asked in the original post do the Penn hipped dogs then go on to produce sounder offspring, in theory they should....... but do they ?

Very good question and from the little I have seen the jury is still out.