Sentences with phrase «affected dogs from breeding»

The removal of affected dogs from the breeding pool has long been and remains an important form of prevention; the affected dog necessarily has genes for whatever disease it has and will pass them to its offspring.

Breeders could then eliminate affected dogs from their breeding program and avoid breeding carriers to carriers.

Take your time to research the breed and look for breeders who are aware of the health problems these dogs face and work to remove affected dogs from their breeding programs.

Breeders should not only test breeding stock annually and remove affected dogs from the breeding program, but track the heart health of all littermates throughout their lives to get a complete picture of heart health in the line.

TRD can affect dogs from all breeds and ages but is most often seen in middle - aged, large - breed dogs.

Not exact matches

We hope to include other affected dogs from target breeds in the survey.

While it is true that no dog affected with a spinal disease should be bred from, there is a great deal of variance in the appearance of a French Bulldog's spine as compared to, for example, a Labrador Retriever.

From time to time certain conditions or exaggerations may be considered to have the potential to affect dogs in some breeds adversely, and judges and breeders are requested to refer to the Kennel Club website for details of any such current issues.

If everyone shares, and if breeders quit throwing stones at each other, and if the scientific community revises its often accusatory stance on breeding from carriers or even from affected dogs, H.E.A.R.T proves it can be done.

For example, four of the top five breeds affected with elbow dysplasia were the Bernese mountain dog, Newfoundland, mastiff and Rottweiler - all from the mastiff - like lineage.

Remove from a breeding program any dog or bitch that is known to have repeatedly produced any significant condition that affects the physical or mental soundness of the progeny.

Affected dogs should not be bred; if semen has been stored from males that develop hereditary cataracts it should be discarded.

Breed specific legislation affecting Pit Bull dogs ranges from all - out bans to laws that require Pit Bull owners to carry costly insurance policies.

Deep chesed breeds of dog are most commonly affected, meaning chest in these breeds from backbone to sternum is relatively long while the chest width from right to left is narrow.

Clare Rusbridge and her team, with considerable help from Cavalier breed clubs and owners, have established a worldwide DNA collection from affected dogs and their families.

In a case study from Finland, middle - aged large breed dogs were affected with ARD and only responded to tylosin.

A study by UC Davis showed that there was a prevalence of genetic disorders in both populations (rescue and bred): «Recently derived breeds or those from similar lineages appeared to be more susceptible to certain disorders that affect all closely related purebred dogs, whereas disorders with equal prevalence in the two populations suggested that those disorders represented more ancient mutations that are widely spread through the dog population.»

While the disease can affect any animal, dogs from the following breeds may be at an increased risk of developing Addison's disease: Standard poodle, Great Dane, Portuguese water dog, West Highland white terrier, Rottweiler, English springer spaniel, Welsh springer spaniel, German shorthaired pointer, Soft - coated wheaten terrier, Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever, and the Bearded collie.

One problem that they do suffer from that is common in larger dog breeds is hip dysplasia, an inherited disease that affects the hip joints.

Spaniels with severe distichiasis are excluded from breeding, and breeders are recommended to breed dogs with moderate distichiasis to unaffected or mildly affected dogs [16].

To promote this, OptiGen will test, at no charge, affected dogs from each of the 16 breeds with a known genetic form of PRA.

Affected dogs are unlikely to be well enough or live long enough to breed, but if semen is stored from males who had HSA it should be discarded because this disease is virtually always lethal.

To keep our gene pool diverse, we should not discard dogs from breeding programs simply because they are related to a dog affected with CA.

The film focuses on interviews with prominent animal advocates, organization leaders, and individuals who have been affected by commercial dog breeding and have worked hard to protect animals in or from these kennels.

Tina M. Barber, a dog breeder from New York, wanted the German Shepherd type dog to look and perform the way it did when she was young — a larger dog, with a great personality around the family, and with none of the conformational defects affecting the modern German Shepherd Dog bredog breeder from New York, wanted the German Shepherd type dog to look and perform the way it did when she was young — a larger dog, with a great personality around the family, and with none of the conformational defects affecting the modern German Shepherd Dog bredog to look and perform the way it did when she was young — a larger dog, with a great personality around the family, and with none of the conformational defects affecting the modern German Shepherd Dog bredog, with a great personality around the family, and with none of the conformational defects affecting the modern German Shepherd Dog breDog breed.

Characteristics of both sides affect the Lab Pitbull mix, so here's a closer look at the characteristics that come from both parent breeds, offering you the information you need to decide if a Labrabull is the right dog for you.

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Allergies to specific dog food's and their ingredients can affect any breed, male or female and can start occuring at any age (although symptoms are more common in younger dogs from the age of two up to six years old.

Test breeding of epileptic dams and sires done by veterinary researchers have produced incidences of epilepsy in the offspring ranging from between 38 % (affected to nonaffected) to 100 % (breeding together of two affected dogs).

The optigen test enables us to breed from carriers, provided that the carrier is mated to a clear dog, in the knowledge that none of the puppies will be affected.

It is recommended that not only should the affected dog be withdrawn from any breeding programs, but so should both parents and all littermates.

Blood was collected for DNA extraction from a) privately owned crd3 - affected and non-affected purebred GIT dogs; b) mixed breed dogs derived from GIT founders and maintained as a study colony as part of an NIH - sponsored project (EY006855) at the Retinal Disease Studies Facility (RDSF) in Kennett Square, PA; and c) from 80 privately owned pedigreed dogs from breeds not known to segregate crd3 (Table 1).

Professor Bedford's advise at that time was: In general to contain the problem, would be DO NOT BREED from the affected dog, its parents, its siblings or its offspring.

Breeding from affected stock: This is a difficult one for anyone but the Eye Specialist that has tested your dogs eyes to advise you on.

Therefore, while prophylactic gastroplexy will probably help an individual dog, it makes sense not to breed dogs who are affected or who are close relatives of those suffering from GDV.

The collecting of, pedigree data around the affected dogs is being done from the published list in the Breed Supplement.

But without knowing about the affected dogs in a pedigree, breeders are doomed to continue breeding proven carriers and other close relatives, to the misfortune of those who purchase puppies from these crosses.

Any which have even one copy of the mutation withdrawn from breeding, unless the mutation is so common in a breed that a significant portion of dogs are affected.

For those diseases that lack carrier screening tests, once a case has been diagnosed the affected dog should be withdrawn from breeding.

Not only are the genetics of it so far unknown, but most affected dogs will not develop the disease until adulthood making it difficult to breed away from.

Healthy dogs which produce multiple affected offspring, particularly with different mates, should be withdrawn from breeding.

They zealously screened their dogs, eliminating not only affected animals but the healthy carriers from the breeding population.

Valuable dogs carrying unwanted genes which formerly might have been removed from breeding programs could be bred because breeders could determine the genotypes of prospective mates and eliminate the possibility of producing affected offspring.

Deafness in dogs can result from many causes (aging, drug toxicity, noise, infection, trauma), but the cause of significant concern to owners of Catahoulas and other similarly affected breeds is congenital sensorineural deafness, because it appears to be inherited.

From time to time certain conditions or exaggerations may be considered to have the potential to affect dogs in some breeds adversely and Judges and Breeders are requested to refer to the Breed Watch section of the Kennel Club website for details of any such current issues.

CERF Certification for Labradors or Samoyeds with Retinal Folds: The breeding advice for Labrador Retrievers and Samoyeds diagnosed with «retinal dysplasia - folds» will be changed from «No» to «Breeder option» if the owner of the dog provides the CERF office with results of the DNA test for the affected dog, showing that it is not a carrier of the oculoskeletal dysplasia (OSD) mutation.

If the incidence in IGs is similar, we clearly can't afford to cull every affected or carrier dog from our breeding programs.

OptiGen will test the sample from your PRA affected dog for the known and / or likely causes of the disease in that breed.

Dogs who are overweight or suffer from brachycephalic syndrome — upper airway abnormalities typically affecting flat - faced breeds — are most likely to experience the condition.

Parents, full or half siblings, and offspring of an affected dog should also be bred to mates from families free of moderate to severe allergies.