I've bit the bullet and done it - Meerah is booked in next month to have her hips x-rayed. If they are good, then she'll be scored; if they are not, she'll be spayed on the day! Please don't ask me the date; for my own sanity, I won't tell you ... but I'll write about it later!
Whilst I'm writing about Meerah, I'd just like to say she has a lot of faults, the obvious being unmissable, but she is not unsound "going away". Actually, though she is leggy, she is very sound! Moan over.