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Originally Posted by Goldfields
. Rotten luck about the dysplastic TM, why didn't they insist on him being hip scored prior to purchase?
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they got him as a pup out of hip scored parents and grandparents. However, genetics can be funny at times and because of his lineage and being out of Chinese lines with in the 5 generation pedigree, there was a list of un scored relatives that it can be traced back to.
hip problems are not only genetic either, growth, excercise, feeding, ect can all contribute to problems down the line. In this case though it was a classic case of poor genetics rearing its ugly head eventually.
Thankfully though this impressive boy was purchased by COE breeders and not bred with out testing just because for the past 2 generations they were fine.