![]() ![]() ![]() They should develop a brochure discussing the rationale of the various systems that can be used to control disease and how to handle carriers and potential carriers of the various traits.ĩ. This brochure should be made readily available to every club member, breeder and owner of dogs of the breed.Ĩ. They should develop a brochure (or webpage-LC) discussing the diseases that occur in their breed, giving clinical signs, methods of diagnosis – including special equipment required, age of onset, mode of inheritance and potential treatments – and prognosis. They should determine which defects should be attacked on a breed-wide basis.ħ. They should develop lists of dogs known to be affected with or that carry genes for a given trait that are available for test matings, and this list should be made freely available to breeders and members.Ħ. They should advocate the registration of dogs and bitches known to be free of the genes for various undesirable traits.ĥ. They should advocate the registration of dogs and bitches affected with genetic defects and those known to carry genes for these traits (dogs and bitches that produced the trait or that are offspring of affected dogs) in an open registry.Ĥ. They should form a committee to assess the impact of each trait on the breed.ģ. This list should be made available to members and breeders and the mode of inheritance of each trait should be listed if it is known.Ģ. They should generate a list of genetic defects occurring in their breed by surveying members and owners. ….Some of the things a breed club should do to enhance the ability of club members and other breeders to control genetic disease follow:ġ. If we wish to do anything about the control of genetic diseases on a breed-wide basis, we have to add a dimension to the role of breed clubs…. Historically, control of genetic disease was never part of the responsibilities of a breed club, so the vast majority has never done anything about genetic disease……. Each dog, unrelated to each other, has hips that are poor enough that PennHip rates them as unsuitable for breeding.Į xcerpts from Control of Canine Genetic Diseases by George A. Recently, we’ve been very interested in this book (excerpted below) because we were told by PennHip, (a group similar to OFA, but more exacting in its standards) that Dixie and Giana, our two young Bracco bitches who were next in line for breeding, are un-breedable. Recently, however, breeders are beginning to radiograph adult dogs before selling them. In Italy, we personally know of very little incidence of genetic disorders in the Bracco – perhaps because there is, indeed, very little disease, or possibly because there is not much discussion or acknowledgement of any problems that actually do occur. We attribute the downfall of many breeds to the lack of knowledge or caring by “backyard” breeders, who breed for quantity rather than quality, with little or no regard to the health and background of the sire or dam. The Responsibilities of Dog Breeders – and Breed ClubsĪs most of us know, dogs, and purebred dogs specifically, have genetic disorders – often, the more popular the breed, the more extensive the genetic disorders are. ![]()
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