> Yes, I agree with Laura. If a hip is bad, it doesn't take a lot of > education to tell it. If a hip is good....same thing. You can see that it > is well seated into the joint. When the boy we had came back with mild > dysplasia, I knew that the choices would be either a fair, or mild > dysplasia. I certainly knew that the one hip had problems.
If the xray is clear and the dog is positioned somewhat straight, it really isn't hard to see if the hips are good or not. There are some very old xray machines out there though and some vet clinics seem to not be able to position the hips correctly--OFA is better able to *see* through those types of problems. I have 2 hip xrays on my site (soon to be 3 when I remember to take Macey's xrays to the vet to take pictures of) and 3 hip xrays on the Premier Site--including one that shows HD. I think it is easy to see the reason Dinah's got a *Good* and Blu's a *Fair* and even easier to see that the one shows obvious signs of HD. What is so hard about that? But again these are well taken, clear xrays. If they weren't it would be harder to evauate. Laura Lang Roycroft Cavaliers ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
