We have always been so proud of Jackie Chan ( our gift from dear late friend Jack Budd) and don't really brag on him much but this time is a MUST! We recently learned that two of his offspring received OFA EXCELLENT on their submitted x-rays: Donsta"s Double Take Ritarra and Ritarra's Center Stage. Congratulations to their breeders and owners: Don and Sandy Staack and Rita Chapman and Carolyn McKenna. We are so grateful that you bred your lovely bitches to Jackie. Of course, littmermates went OFA good both hips and elbows. Not too shabby. So then we decided to check out the ratio of hips and elbows submitted to actual numbers received from OFA and we are so pleased we had to share. Jackie has only been bred to a selectively few number of lovely ladies and the results are outstanding!!! On submitted offspring: 12 submitted, Hips: 2 Excellent and 10 good; Elbows 12 submitted and 11 good. On Jackie's full siblings: 3 submitted, Hips: 3 good; Elbows 2 On Half Siblings (Sire): 17 submitted, Hips: 2 Excellent, 9 Good and 4 Fair; Elbows 14 Half Siblings (Dam): 2 submitted, Hips 1 Good 1 Fair, Elbows 1 Great Ratio even on the half siblings which we had no part in breeding, congats to the owners also. We know Jack would have been so proud of this outcome!!! Thanks for listening. Ken and Patty Downing Abraxas Shepherds...The Secret of Success is Consistency of Purpose www.abraxasgsd.com ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================