Yes, but they were sold as restricted pets except for one who was sold with full disclosure. When it is time for that puppy girl to be bred, assuming it passes it's other health testing, the breeding would be one carefully chosen to further breed "away" from that carrier status instead of "into" it. Her new owner understands all of this and is more than willing to work with us (sire and dam owners) as part of a team of decision makers. We both spent lots of time with her when she flew up to pick up her puppy. She in fact, has a free breeding coming to one of our own boys who is not a carrier to further encourage good breeding decisions. (Hi Sandy) That is why we so badly need to identify carrier status on our dogs, and share that information completely and freely. That way, we can help each other to breed away from these genetically transmitted diseases rather than eliminate valuable dogs from our breeding program. The bitch in this case, who was a carrier.....is also 4.5 years old, heart clear, OFA good, Patellae normal, CERFed, lovely girl with lovely structure...AKC champion, and a wonderful sound temperament. She deserved to be bred and her puppies deserved to have a chance to pick up her good heart, hips and patellae and Robbie's good heart, hips and patellaes as well as those of his 7 year old heart clear parents. As a bonus, they picked up dad's clean retinas. Isn't this really what we talk about all the time when we say we won't throw out the baby with the bath water? Myra
>From: Jackie Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] geographic retinal dysplasia >Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:22:24 -0500 > >Thanks Myra, but doesn't this now mean that each of those "clear" >puppies could be carriers? > >Jackie > >On 8 Jul 2002 at 16:17, Myra Savant wrote: > > > She had produced it in several puppies in a litter. Both she and the > > sire were clear, but the puppies had it. So, we assumed that both > > clear parents were carriers for it. The canine eye person agreed. > > When bred to our Robbie, all five pups were crystal clear and clean as > > whistles. So....that did even more to convince us that the bitch > > carried for the condition, and Robbie does not. The canine eye doc > > says that to repeat the breeding would give us even more information. > > Myra > >========================================================= >"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.
