If Boss passes, which he certainly should, he would be my 4th Bulldog I've bred that was OFA on the hips.
I fully realize most aren't, as with the majority of the bullies I've had. But, I feel it is an important goal to strive for. I've had numerous ones that were pretty darn close, that my vet thought should have. And, over the years, I've had some that weren't the best, but then I bred to one that was good, in hopes of bettering it.
I am going to see if my vet can copy some good hips from another breed, and then some poor bulldog hips, just to show as an education thing. I know there is much debate on how OFA does this. But, they really do judge breed to breed. When my vet took me to the computer to look at the digital picture, there were some hips that were on the screen. He said how do those look... I said WOW.....he laughed, and said, well, those aren't Boss's.... Then changed the file to his. Of course, his still looked damn good, but still not the same as the other one. And of course, I've seen some thru the years that literally, the femur head was totally outside the socket. And, with the dog you really wouldn't have realized it, because of the muscle mass.
Although some can debate whether HD is genetic or what, I feel that like other virtures of the Bulldog we breed for, good heads, toplines, tailsets, etc, if we breed like to like enough, we get what we want.
Posted on Aug 24, 2008, 5:14 AM from IP address 207.200.116.135