Re: Trembling puppy......

2002-11-14 Thread BernerFolk
In a message dated 11/13/2002 6:02:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our Berner puppy, Chiara, is 18 weeks old and she has begun to have trembling in her right leg on an irregular but consistent basis.snip A long time ago I had read something about this subject in an

Re: Trembling puppy......

2002-11-14 Thread jean cheesman
Hi Valerie and Chiara, Take a deep breathe...and relax. What you're seeing is quite common, the cause is unknown. What you remember reading about is hypomyelinogenisis, commonly known as Tremblers. It did occur in appx a dozen dogs having a common sire in their pedigrees, in England, in the mid

Re: Trembling puppy......

2002-11-13 Thread Marion Brown
Dear Valerie The disease you are thinking of is called Hypomyelinogenesis and is a condition in which the normal myelin sheath-axon relationship is not properly formed. It has been concluded that this condition is brought about by the absence of myelin on the nerve fibres. It is believed to be a