WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL DATABASE |
When available, hip ratings are presented
in brackets ("[" and "]") for dogs
in the Welsh Springer Spaniel Database.
The scoring varies by country.
When two scores are available (for example, from multiple countries), they are
included together, separated by a comma (",").
Hip Scoring In The United States
Early OFA scores simply gave the dog a sequential number.
The scoring was pass/fail.
Only dogs whose hips had passed were assigned a score.
Hip Scoring In Finland
The old Finnish scoring system gave breedable dogs
either a X* or X*H (X*H excellent).
Dysplastic dogs were rated X1, X2, X3 and X4
(sometimes represented as XI, XII, XIII, and XIV).
Hip Scoring In Sweden
For many of the Swedish dogs, a two-digit x-ray score is also provided.
For each hip, the score ranges from 0 to 4.
Value 00 means both hips are perfect.
Value 04 means one hip is perfect and the other is very bad.
Value 44 means both hips are very bad.
A lower-case "x" before the two digits stands for "x-ray".
Hip Scoring In The United Kingdom
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Scores are assigned by the Orthopedic
Foundation for Animals (OFA).
For Welsh, an OFA score usually looks something like WS-123G24M.
In the Welsh Springer Spaniel Database, the "WS-" prefix is removed.
The score itself consists of a sequential number, a single letter, another
number, and another letter.
The first number is sequential by breed.
The first letter will equal either "E" for Excellent,
"G" for Good, or "F" for Fair.
The second number is the dog's age in months when the evaluation was done.
The second letter will equal either "M" for Male or "F" for Female.
Sometimes the score will be followed by the designation "-T" to indicate
that the dog has been tattooed or micro-chipped.
In the Welsh Springer Spaniel Database, the "-T" suffix is removed.
An OFA score is not given to dogs whose hips have failed.
The scoring is such that A1 is the best.
A1, A2, B1 and B2 are considered free of dysplasi,
while C1 through E2 are affected, E2 being the most serious.
Sometimes the score appears as a single letter, A and B being free, and
C though E being affected.
When the left and right hip scores are not equal for an individual dog, they are
both presented, separated by a dash.
New scoring system rates normal hips as UA (unaffected).
Old scoring system rated normal hips as "H".
The old and new systems rate dysplastic dogs with a
number ranging from 1 to 4 as severity increases.
Sweden allows dogs to be hip certified at 12 months of age.
The UK scoring system ranks each hip separately with
nine criteria rated from 0 to 5 or 6, totaled together
for a maximum value of 53.
With the two hip scores together, 0/0 would be the best
possible rating, while 53/53 would be the worst.