Litters advertising ('NO' to dogs without HD results)

[GalomyOak]

Maybe some day a bonitation judge will desire to take a vacation to the US; and maybe some US owners will be able to help him or her out in exchange for judgement of our dogs...some day.

For HD results, are all types accepted? I recently got my dogs hips tested using the Penn Hip test (I prefer this to our OFA method). The scores look very different, and I don't know if it would be ethical to "translate" them with the European scoring system, since the testing procedure and methodology are quite different. If it's possible, I'd like to post the results and can send a photo of the official results. Many people in the US are familiar with this method; on www.pennhip.org, it is possible to learn about the methodology. It will become even more accurate once more CSVs are tested. It was nice to see that my dog's hips were in the top 20% of all dogs from all breeds tested at Penn Hip.

Take good care,
Marcy

[Margo]

Originally Posted by wildenmorgen

For HD results, are all types accepted? I recently got my dogs hips tested using the Penn Hip test (I prefer this to our OFA method). The scores look very different, and I don't know if it would be ethical to "translate" them with the European scoring system, since the testing procedure and methodology are quite different.

OFA is "better" for us because it is easy to 'translate' it to the system we have by FCI. But if you send me the copies of the Penn Hip tests I will add them to the database. Maybe it will be hard for some people to find out what it means but people from US who are interested in this breed will know what it means...