CorvusCorax
Justified & Ancient
With GSDs is as above, no overdoing things on concrete, bouncing up and down stairs, in and out of car, on and off sofa etc.
Ball drive is very important to me but I never throw a ball far or in the air anyway, but along the ground. It's more reminiscent of prey movement that way anyway, I don't want the dog to chase birds lol.
People generally don't do anything too high impact until the x-rays are taken at 12 months or later. However within reason, good hips and elbows are genetic and pups still need to be exposed to things like elevated and slippery surfaces in terms of their socialisation.
I'm not long back from the German federal championships and the world championships (in the latter they require passing hips and elbows to compete) and didn't see any dogs with bad pasterns and a lot less dogs seemed to have a problem with the hurdle since they tightened up on health requirements.
Ball drive is very important to me but I never throw a ball far or in the air anyway, but along the ground. It's more reminiscent of prey movement that way anyway, I don't want the dog to chase birds lol.
People generally don't do anything too high impact until the x-rays are taken at 12 months or later. However within reason, good hips and elbows are genetic and pups still need to be exposed to things like elevated and slippery surfaces in terms of their socialisation.
I'm not long back from the German federal championships and the world championships (in the latter they require passing hips and elbows to compete) and didn't see any dogs with bad pasterns and a lot less dogs seemed to have a problem with the hurdle since they tightened up on health requirements.