 LPs...environmental or genetics?
There has been a lot of talk lately that has gotten me wondering about LPs. Are they truly genetic or are they environmental??? Let's say, you take the pup into the vet right before going to their forever home. You specifically ask for the knees to be checked not only for your records but so that you can send a copy home with the new parents...absolutely NOTHING wrong with the knees. Weeks or months later, they come back and tell you their dog has LPs. What do you go by? They had sound knees when they left and now all of a sudden they've got it?
You don't know that the pup didn't get it from an injury or jumping down off of furniture constantly. You aren't at the owner's house to see what kind of activity the dog has.
So, what do you do?
I've not had this happen to me but have been pondering the question since another breeder posed it on a thread about guarantees. |