Havanese Health

The Havanese is a healthy breed overall with relatively few serious health issues.

According to the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals the Havanese breed has a very high instance of Normal evaluations:

Evaluations through December 2015

Havanese taking a break at an AKC dog show

Baer hearing test  –  99.6% normal
Cardiac  –  99.3% normal
D locus  –  100.0% normal
Degenerative myelopathy  –  100.0% normal
Elbow  –  91.9% normal
Eyes  –  99.4% normal
Hips  –  87.1% normal
Hyperuricosuria  –  100.0% normal
Legg-calve-perthes  –  99.9% normal
Neonatal cerebellar ataxia  –  100.0% normal
Patella  –  96.2% normal