OFA and PennHip .. A franchise opportunity for veterinarians with price fixing - Page 3

The policy among OFA vets in my area is sedate or they won't do the OFA.  I am wrong about the OFA sedation issue if there is no written policy from the OFA requiring sedation but that is the way it seems to work in this immediate area. Perhaps they had a meeting and decided for sedation when they decided what price they would all charge.  All the vets in my area require sedation and I am not willing to pretend sedation can or will not harm my dog's health.  I neither like or dislike Fred Lanting but I feel the science of genetics has passed Fred Lanting by and he is still doing what he has done in the past even though the science has progressed beyond that.  Scientists who live too long risk having their favorite theories proven wrong in their lifetime.

Oh, so then you were just being inflammatory when you alleged that OFA was now requiring all dogs be sedated. 

That'll do.

Think what you want, Bubba, you are wrong about sedation and hip and elbow xrays. 

Fred Lanting has forgotten more about this breed than you will ever know.

Sedation adds to the cost for the owner and the danger to the animal.  It also adds to the profits of the veterinarian and makes the throughput of the "animal hospital" faster.  If suggesting that veterinarians will do what is best for their own profits and speed of operation is making anyone inflamed as Hexe suggested then I am guilty as charged.  Personally I do not want my animals sedated unless I am with them as I have seen them stop breathing without supervision by the vet staff and know people who's dog has been damaged by sedation and just like humans the more an animal is sedated the higher the risks on each subsequent sedation.   I hope Fred Lanting didn't forget the important stuff that I will never know .. I'm pretty sure Fred Lanting remembers all of the good stuff about Fred and his theories but is fuzzy on the things not so flattering.

Do you have a website, Bubba?

No, bubbabickyboo, you didn't SUGGEST anything.

You flat out, blatently STATED that OFA now REQUIRED dogs be sedated for radiographs.

I was being polite and attributing that statement to an attempt on your part to create a furor you could participate in, which you seem to require on a regular basis; was I mistaken, then, and was your statement actually just a common garden-variety lie you decided to throw out there?

Ask your bud Fred Lanting and you and he can criticize my web site when you run out of legitimate arguments.  Gotta go feed and water my dogs .. the thing the hips are connected to.  I am leaving it for those who have had OFA hips and elbows done in the last year or less to decide what the "normal" cost that is charged is and whether sedation is optional or required if you want to get the OFA certificate.  In my area the cost is $350-$400 with sedation and sedation is required.  

booboo, if your vet doesn't want to wrestle with your dogs in an attempt to get them positioned correctly, and therefore requires them to be sedated for hip films, that is a completely different premise than OFA requiring sedation.

Do you xray your dogs hips and elbows, Bubba? Are they certified by any organization? I did find your website, you listed it here. Your dogs look nice.

Fred Lanting has forgotten more about this breed than you will ever know.



Amen, Blitzen! And since he is still actively involved in showing, breeding AND judging, I am sure he keeps current with other developments such as x-rays and genetics.

http://www.fredlanting.org/