Message #572100

[Austesus]

The dog had a slightly different gait than normal but nothing I would consider crazy. I just thought that it was due to a line of dogs I haven’t had much time around having their own characteristics. He hasn’t expressed any pain or any difficulty hunting and I’ve been running him a lot lately, he’s probably done 200 miles in the past 2-3 weeks and never showed a problem. The vet I took him to is a vet that I do trust and value his opinion, but he also made a distinction that it was just a guess and there’s no way to prove what he thought. His reasons for thinking this were that the dog doesn’t seem to express the pain that he should based on the X-rays, even when doing mobility test.

I talked to Justin earlier and he said that he has culled only 3-4 dogs for hip/running issues and that has been over the course of more than 13 years. His dogs are tight bred but this litter was an outcross. My thoughts were that I can breed him, and then instead of doubling up on him like I originally planned, I can take the pup off that litter to another dog with no issues and breed away from any apparent hip issues. They’re very rough dogs and honestly most probably wouldn’t make it long enough to where they would really experience issues from any hip problems. From my understanding dysplasia is something that is only really a problem in dogs once they get older. I honestly don’t expect my dogs to make it to 10 years old, just due to the nature of rough dogs.

Obviously I don’t want to breed a bad issue in to the dogs, but I’m not 100% that it did or didn’t exist before the accident, and was hopefully that even if it did I could just monitor pups until they were a year or two old for any problems and cull accordingly, and that after 1-2 generations the problem would be gone. I don’t have many dogs to work with which is also a factor. If I had multiple males that I thought I could use for a breeding program I would probably steer away from him but at this point the only other male dog I have left is a cur that’s unrelated, and from good blood with good littermates but he’s almost 4 and I never really gave him a chance because he was opening up and I was running silent dogs


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