might even be more than that for the type of dog that you may be looking for? (I.e. health)

can see by the movement of a dog if its hips are 'off' as an adult,

Sorry this is not infallible, one of the worst movers I ever saw was a GSD with a 0:0 hip score, one of the best had hips of 72!

Yes there is a GSD pedigree site that list all pedigrees names and hip scores and Jacquenetta keep all the scores done on hips and elbows in the UK.

I personally feel feeding a raw balanced diet does give a dog the best chance I feed raw from day 1 that I have the dog-wasn't able to when I had my Brett who had the 68 hip score & Jessie who has a score of 56, stayed with her breeder on crap food & crated/kennelled nearly 24/7 until she was 15 months old !

TBH most areas of the UK now have a hydro pool within driving distance. I took Brett to a racehorse trainers yard to use his pool as I had him before there were pools for dogs & I swam him in the sea as well

thanks guys and thanks Littlepony for letting me saboutage your thread a bit there!