Sentences with phrase «most dysplastic dogs»
Most dysplastic dogs are born with normal hips but due to genetic and possibly other factors, the soft tissues that surround the joint start to develop abnormally as the puppy grows.
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If you look at the hip dysplasia statistics of the Orthopedic Foundation of America, hip X-rays of 4000 Flat - Coats were evaluated and only 4 % were dysplastic, which would be a good rate for this size dog — except that the true rate is higher because most of the obviously bad X-rays were not sent in for official evaluation.
But both older and younger dysplastic dogs seem to suffer the most discomfort in cold, damp weather.