I'll let you go to Sweden, JoAnn!! One does not have to live there in order to adopt their research.
What I mean by my last sentence is that we select drastically for beauty -- 90% of the dogs living at any given time in the USA are not bred, for various reasons - mostly because they are not of the quality that one would wish to breed. Therefore, if we select for beauty, why can we not select for hearts as well? We already eliminate 90% of the dogs for breeding for one reason or another so why not for hearts? Anne (Robins is correct!) Jo wrote: > Anne, (Robins, is it?), > I say let's all go to Sweden. > None of this is clear to me as yet..I'm waiting and watching. > I still see dogs that are clear to 7 or 8 and dead shortly after the murmur > develops. > There is far too much criticism and not enough positive thinking. > I have no idea what you mean by your last sentence. > Explain please. > JoAnn > > > Annette Jones wrote: > > > > > > > There are NO lines clear of MVD and no genetic test to enable us to > screen > > > our stock - there fore there is no way of knowing which puppy (if any) > in a > > > litter will develop early or late onset unfortunately and who will never > > > develop it but live and die of some other ailment like cancer or kidney > > > failure. You can health test until the cows come home and use dogs with > a > > > good history behind them but it will not prevent somewhere along the > line a > > > puppy in later life developing MVD. > > > > > > > There is certainly no way to know which puppy in a litter will develop > early > > MVD. But there IS a way (as has been researched and documented by the > > cardiologists and geneticist in Sweden) of reducing the frequency of MVD > in > > Cavaliers and increasing the odds of producing a lower percentage of dogs > with > > MVD -- and that is by breeding to and from older dogs with cardiologist's > > clear heart certificates. The research shows that it is possible to also > > reduce the frequency of MVD by breeding to younger dogs whose parents are > clear > > of MVD at an older age. Of course, this is not 100% foolproof but it > doesn't > > take a rocket scientist to understand that if you breed generations of > older, > > heart clear dogs then you will get a higher percentage of heart clear > > offspring. This is surely what we all strive for. So .... whilst it is > true > > that no amount of testing is a guarantee that your dogs will be clear of > MVD, > > it is certainly a step towards reducing the possibility of your offspring > > coming up with early onset MVD. > > > > If we can reduce the gene pool so much by selecting for conformation and > > beauty, then surely we can reduce the gene pool for clear hearts. > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > > > ========================================================= > "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. ========================================================= "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.
