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#1 ·
Good afternoon all,
Our puppy is 11 months old. He is a rottweiler. We took him to the vet yesterday had some xrays and found that he has hip dysplasia and both his knees have cruciate ligament ruptures! We are now embarking on the long process of surgeries and therapy which I am aware wont heal him 100% but we are committed to do everything necessary to help him.
The vet has advised us that these issues are a hereditary disorder and it is likely the other puppies in the litter have the same problems.
We bought the puppy from a family with 2 rotties. I visited their home twice to see the pups with mum there was nothing untoward. It seemed like a legitimate family just having a litter with their pets. I met mum and dad, I was told both were pedigree and the contract of sale included a clause stating they had been health tested and hip scored and were perfectly healthy..
My question is other than focusing on our puppy and making him better are there any other steps I can take against this breeder should I have missed something and was duped?
 
#2 ·
Did you see certificates showing test results for hips and any other tests undertaken? Were the parents KC registered with a 5 generation pedigree allowing you to check hip scores of ancestors of the parents of the puppy?

If you dont have proof of hip scores like the certificates then you cannot be certain that what you were told was true.

Low hip scores of sire and dam do not guarantee that the resultant puppies will also have low hip scores even though hip dysplasia is largely hereditary, there are other factors that may affect a puppies hips such as over exercising when young, allowing puppies to run up and down stairs and being overweight. Ancestors hip scores will also play a part in a puppies hip development.
Sometimes there appears to be no known reason why a puppy will have terrible hips yet has come from a family line of low scored hips.

Whether you have any come back with the breeders of the puppy I very much doubt unless it can be proven that they lied to you over hip scoring, but even then I'm not sure you will get too far with this.

You could contact these people for advice,

https://www.doglaw.co.uk/
 
#4 ·
As said above even if both parents had low hip scores it doesn't mean some of the pups wont be affected with hip dysplasia. It happens sometimes and its really is crap luck you've had :-( A friend of mine bought a girl from a show kennel and the parents had excellent hip scores and she ended up having to have both hips replaced, He couldn't blame the breeder and there was no comeback on the breeder because they did everything right.

And the same as Blitz said re the cruciate ruptures, that isn't hereditary so the breeder cannot be blamed for that
 
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#5 ·
Thank you for the replies. The breeders seemed like a genuine family so I will just let them know what has happened and suggest they let the other puppy owners know to get theirs checked out. The most important thing is getting him as healthy and happy as we can so I will be concentrating on that...
 
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