When you breed you breed for life. A responsible breed will always back a dog. If it were me I would refund the purchase price regardless of what is or is not in sales contract. and/or state puppy lemon laws and the like. The dog is not is a good home for it and should be removed from the situation immediately. Regardless of how you buy/sell contract reads it must comply with the puppy lemon laws of the state or is void. The cost of the refund is far less expensive than the alternative but the refund must be predicated on the return of the dog as well.
State of CA as an example You would not be covered under it.
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Without actual seeing the dog puppy one can not know for sure. but past experience tells us, the Vet is likely full of crap and has little to no experience with basset hounds. It would not surprise me if this dog has Pano and is being misdiagnose and or if angular limb deformity does exist it was the result of or exacerbated by 1. early spay/neuter. 2 trauma to on or more growth plates which you as a breeder have no control over.
1. 99.99 % of all basset hound have OFA dysplastic hips. no different than any other dwarf breed. OFA, penn Hip and other tools used to test for hip dysplasia are basically useless with dwarf breeds. Despite what there hips look like on x-ray and how poorly developed the hip socket is, rarely do any of the dwarf breeds have hip issues see
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I got some very good and very candidly given information. He said several things: This is not a breed he sees, as a surgeon who does lots of work to relieve pain in hips or to analyze x-rays. This is not a breed coming in with pain issues. It’s not a breed he associates with dysplasia symptoms with any regularity. He does not recommend OFA for corgis of any type, because he feels that the scoring is more or less guesswork unless the joint is clearly already arthritic or the socket just plain doesn’t exist, and EVEN THEN he rarely sees dogs come in with pain.
He said, and this is close to an exact quote, “These are dogs with weird hips, and they get along just beautifully on those weird hips.”
angular Limb deformation is a requirement for a proper basset front.
A requirement for proper conformation the legs are suppose to be crooked. . The legs must be bent to be correct, Certainly there are a large number of bassets with really bad front ends and the limb deformation is way too excessive or does not exist but rarely is this actual an issue. I have seen some Bassets with amazingly horrible front ends get along just fine on them. There is way too much surgery prescribed to fix a problem that does not actual exist and usually does more harm than good. I am also firmly convinced a large percentage of the issue is environmental especial early spay/nueter (before maturity and growth plates close,}. can cause a problem that would not other wise occur because the growth plates in the forearm close at different times
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The following is from the Basset Hound Faq by Judy Trenck
Paneosteitis is an elusive ailment occasionally seen in young Bassets. It is also known as wandering or transient lameness. Attacks are usually brought on by stress and aggravated by activity, and up to now, the cause and the cure are unknown. This mysterious disease causes sudden lameness, but its greatest potential danger may lie in false diagnosis, resulting in unnecessary surgery. A puppy will typically outgrow it by the age of two with no long term problems. It can be quite minor, or so bad that the dog will not put any weight on the leg. Symptoms may be confused with "elbow displasia", "hip displasia", "patellar luxation" and other more serious disorders. The most definite way to diagnose paneosteitis is radiographically. Even with this, signs can be quite minimal and easily missed. As to treatment, no cure was found in experimental tests and the only helpful thing found was relief for pain (aspirin, cortisone, etc.) However, using these, the dog tends to exercise more and thereby aggravate the condition. Note again: A GREAT MANY VETS ARE UNAWARE OF THIS DISEASE IN THE BASSET .
In diagnosing the cause of a Basset's lameness, a radiograph of the forelimbs may indicate a condition called elbow incongruity. (Elbow incongruity is a poor fit between the 3 bones which comprise the elbow joint.) Studies to date indicate that elbow incongruity is normal in the Basset and is not the cause of the lameness. It is also suspected that many of the previously mentioned unnecessary (panosteitis) surgeries have been performed on Basset Pups just because radiographs that were taken showed elbow incongruity. A study on forelimb lameness in the Basset is currently underway at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. As previously mentioned they have determined that elbow incongruity occurs in the Basset but suspect that incongruity rarely causes the lameness
Other notes Protein more specific excess protein has been never shown to cause any Orthopeadic issues in growing puppies only Excessive calcium and overfeeding this would falls on the current owners. MOst Puppy food are higher in protein and calories than adult food. Before the advent of large breed puppy most breeder advocated feeding adult food rather than the more calorically dense puppy food
The truth behind 5 popular feeding myths linked to developmental orthopedic disease in giant breed puppies. The facts will surprise you! #BigDogMom
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"It was later demonstrated that dietary protein concentration had no effect on skeletal development. 2 While there is no scientific support for adverse effects of protein intake, other dietary factors, especially excessive calories and inappropriate amounts of calcium, have been shown to negatively influence optimal skeletal development in large breed puppies. "