gimpfinger wrote:Known of a few dogs that passed the hip tests only to have their hips go bad early in life.
your mom...
More things go into bad hips than genetics. Fat dogs, dogs that are allowed to jump up and down from trucks, and dogs that are crated in small crates without good exercise get bad hips.
Geaux4me is right, excellent, good, fair, mild displastic, and displastic are the hip ratings.