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Date Posted: 11:18:20 11/20/09 Fri
Author: Jenny W
Subject: Re: If the dog had 3:3 elbows
In reply to: Jordan 's message, "If the dog had 3:3 elbows" on 09:40:32 11/20/09 Fri

These are often asked question and justifications for NOT health testing and there is an answer.
A dog's ability to cope with pain is quite individual, so the fact that one dog can cope adequately with poor hips or elbows doesn't mean that it's offspring will do the same. This is why you NEED to test and try to improve the status (score) or effect of the disease on the offspring, whilst maintaining the quality and traits that you are breeding for and see as priorities. Just because a dog can run and jump and lead a normal life does not mean it is not affected by the disease and if mated to another dog with the same disorder (you wouldn't necessarily know if you don't test) then the offspring could well end up twice as bad as each visibly unaffected parent and then they will suffer.

It's true that you can produce poor hips from parents with good hips and you can also produce good hips from bad, but that's just part of nature and the way genetics works in cases of complex genetic conditions and we shouldn't use it as an excuse not to try, and trying your best means testing and managing genetic conditions properly.

We should never condemn anyone for producing a genetic fault if they had done everything they could to try to avoid it.

Breeding dogs is not an exact science, if only it was, life would be so much easier, but to do it well you have to use all means at your disposal and as much information as you can to minimise the risks and maximise the gains to the dogs.

Jenny

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