> I certainly would not submit my dogs to a GA just for non professionals to > look at - and as previously stated hips are X-rayed under GA in the UK > When you can have a simple thing like a bite surprise you after 6 > generations of good bites on both sides of a pedigree an undershot crops > up - what price geno/pheno types! That's Cavaliers for you! VBG
You mean your regular vet doesn't have an xray machine and wouldn't be willing to do a quick xray on each of your dogs? What happens if your dog is injured? As for undershot bites--that just means your genotype is for good bites and undershot bites will therefore be very rare. The idea about breeding for genotype is so that most of the time you will get the *good* results you want because the genotype is geared towards *good* bites, but this does not mean it will happen all the time. Even with mostly *good* genes, occasionally a *bad* combination will crop up. But not most of the time. Most of the time is bad, occasionally is good. Ah, wouldn't it be nice it that were the case for MVD??! Laura Trunk Roycroft Cavaliers ========================================================= "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.
