Some people use the L list to learn, Leanne, and some people use it to find breeders who might sell them a puppy girl to add to the others they keep in cages. From personal experience here, I don't think there is much learning to be done but there are certainly puppies to be searched out and placed in a puppy mill. Myra
>From: Leanne Bertani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] re Kelly >Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:24:27 -0400 > >If we insult everyone who raises their dogs differently and cause them to >leave the list, where are they going to learn about the health problems in >cavaliers? I believe that there should be at least one cavalier list that >should serve to educate. If not this one, then perhaps the hoflin list, or >maybe a new one? If we only welcome people who wholeheartedly agree with >us, then we will only be preaching to the choir. > >When I first signed on this list years ago, I honestly believed that hip >dysplasia in cavaliers was insignificant. I now know differently, and that >is one of many, many things I have learned here and on lists like it. Ten >percent of cavaliers have hip dysplasia, and some of them are unable to >function normally because of it. A few other things I've learned over the >years are things I wouldn't want any breeder to leave the list before >learning: > >Eight percent of cavaliers seen by an ophthalmologist will have a >hereditary >eye defect that will preclude their suitability as breeding animals. > >Close to fifty percent of cavaliers will have a mitral valve murmur by the >age of five, due to early-onset endocardiosis. Many of them will have to >be >on expensive heart medication for the last four or five years of their >lives. Some even die at the age of six or seven, due to severe heart >failure. Breeders can try to breed for better hearts by screening their >breeding animals for heart murmurs (by a cardiologist) and selecting for >those animals who are heart clear over the age of 5, or whose parents are >heart clear over the age of 5. > >Severe patella luxation (luxating kneecaps) in poorly bred dogs cause the >animals severe pain, or cause their owners to put them through surgery that >sometimes costs more than $1000 per knee. > >Four percent of all dogs have epilepsy. There is an inherited >predisposition. Epilepsy is more common when breeding animals are kept >without people around, because seizures go unnoticed, and epileptic animals >are inadvertently used in breeding programs. > >Multiple autoimmune defects also plague this breed. > >Reputable breeders will always take back a cavalier they've bred, >regardless >of how old or infirm it has become. > >The major thing I've learned is that even though I consider myself a very >intelligent person, there is a limit to the number of breeds to which I >could do justice; there is just too much to know about type, conformation, >health and temperament of each breed. > >Commercial breeding establishments are not going to go away. Our best bet >is to kindly educate their proprietors regarding the health and well-being >of the cavalier. Maybe the word will spread. > >Leanne > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >You are the > > nightmare > >========================================================= >"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 2002 by its original author. Myra Savant Gardengate Cavaliers _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ========================================================= "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 2002 by its original author.
