There are two important situations to discuss, firstly the management of clinical elbow disease and perhaps more importantly, the monitoring of elbow
disease by breed clubs.
Not exact matches
Cavalier
Clubs throughout the world are active in fighting
diseases and disorders in this beloved
breed by providing health clinics, funding
breed specific research and delivering
breed education programs.
More research is needed in this area and as far as I am aware, there are no attempts
by breed clubs to tackle the problem of deafness and ear
disease.
Require
breed clubs to keep an Open Health Registry so that the occurrence of all genetic
diseases can be monitored and openly shared
by breeders and prospective puppy buyers.
Make Kennel
Club registration a recognised mark of quality
by only registering litters from dogs which have been health screened or DNA tested and found to be clear of
breed specific hereditary
disease.
The report recommended that in the case of Syringomyelia scientists and
breed club representatives, facilitated
by the KC, should devise a scheme for collecting MRI data for use in a program to reduce or eliminate the
disease.
• It's not financially sound as it often ties up community resources while cases are determined • Many folks can not properly identify the
breed in question • Any dog (or companion animal for that matter) can bite • It has NO scientific basis • It's not supported
by the following organizations: American Bar Association, American Kennel
Club, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior, Center for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Animal Control, Association, National Canine Research Council, The Obama Administration, State Farm Insurance, The US Department of Justice
Do remember that after January 1997 the
breed will be registered
by the Kennel
Club with Glaucoma and Dysplacia as «Heritable
diseases», this will make breeders legally liable.
A RECENT investigation
by ABC News» 20/20 revealed that many pet stores are supplied with puppies
bred under the worst possible conditions.Not to be confused with the American Kennel
Club's well - run kennels, these «puppy farms» are little more than horror chambers where dogs are mass - produced for one reason: money.The dogs resulting from these cottage industry puppy mills are, as might be expected, weak, often
diseased and crippled.
That in spite of many of these genetic
disease faults, many of these dogs are considered «show quality»
by The Kennell
Club (UK) because of how they look — and are allowed and even encouraged to
breed.
An ongoing study of these
diseases in the
breed, sponsored
by the Bernese Mountain Dog
Club of America, indicates the following: Approximately 9.7 % of Berners get cancer.
Because
breed - specific legislation doesn't work, it is opposed
by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the American Kennel
Club, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society of the United States.
Analyzing the prevalence of the conditions in subdivisions of the purebred population based upon the American Kennel
Club classification of
breed group or
by relatedness at a DNA sequence level revealed that three conditions, atopy / allergic dermatitis, hypothyroidism, and intervertebral disk
disease, were common across the purebred population with many of the purebred groups showing higher risk than the mixed -
breed population.