Yes, pepsi is cow hocked. The vet really didn't seem to have any problem with it, and at this time she has no hip problems (4 years old)
Cow Hocked Feet in the GSD
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STANCES IN DOGS - REAR VIEW
1 - Normal Stance
2 - Base Narrow
3 - Base Wide
4 - Turned-out Feet
5 - Pigeon-toed
6 - Cow-hocked
7 - Barrel-hocked, Spread Hocks
Hindquarters standing:
Left - Correct;
Center - cow-hocked;
Right - open-hocked.
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Cow-hocks have no bearing on hip joint conformation. A dog either has HD or doesn't.. it's not related to being cow-hocked. I've had one dog who was cow-hocked, she was also hips OFA Good.
Seeing as he's only 5 months old, it may just be part of the gangly growing stage and will even out with time. Pups of this age are very difficult to assess from a structural standpoint since everything is growing at different rates and often doesn't seem to fit together properly. So being cow-hocked now doesn't necessarily mean he will stay that way when he mature. He might, he might not, or he might still be a bit cow-hocked as an adult but not as severely as now. Have to wait and see.
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Seeing as he's only 5 months old, it may just be part of the gangly growing stage and will even out with time. Pups of this age are very difficult to assess from a structural standpoint since everything is growing at different rates and often doesn't seem to fit together properly. So being cow-hocked now doesn't necessarily mean he will stay that way when he mature. He might, he might not, or he might still be a bit cow-hocked as an adult but not as severely as now. Have to wait and see.
^ just for the statistics of the thread, my boy is under-angulated & cow hocked
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