At the risk of being flamed, one can not throw out the baby with the bath water. While I do not advocate not doing health screening at all I certainly would hate to see what happened to the Basenji breed happen to Cavaliers.
About 20 some odd years ago Basenji breeders tried to get rid of a fatal disease in their breed, a type of hemolytic anemia. Breeders eliminated all carriers and affecteds from the gene pool. While this worked to lower HA in the breed they found themselves with a not only a lot more PRA but a high percentage of Fanconi's disease which is also fatal and a severely decreased gene pool. Luckily for the Basenji people AKC re opened the stud book and allowed native African Basenji to be imported and introduced into the gene pool. Fanconi syndrome is still a huge problem and not likely to ever go away. Terrie:) ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
