Yes, perhaps these things are so. However, please focus on the fact that what we did was breed two, fully tested, age appropriate cavaliers who were both CERFed. What we produced were five fully cleared, CERFed puppies. Let's not all get carried away with trying to decide what you would do about carrier status. It is rare......extremely rare... for us to even know the carrier status of our dogs. From this breeding, I learned another small piece of information about the carrier status of my boy, Robbie, and I am glad to have it. If someone has a bitch with folds, (fully CERFable, you know) and they are interested in breeding to my boy, I can tell this person with some degree of confidence that...when bred to a girl who was a known carrier for dysplasia, he produced clear retinas. I have placed as pets dogs that we owned who had retinal dysplasia and I would continue to do so. If we start discarding dogs because of their carrier status, we might as well try our hands at breeding goldfish. 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 12:16:47 -0500 > >Hi Myra, > >Thanks again for the info. I agree with you that this is the way to >improve. > >But back to the mode of transmission for this eye problem. I thought >geographic retinal dyplasia was a lot of retinal folds and that mode >of transmission was thought to be polygenic. And that the reason >for not breeding dogs with the geographic retinal dysplasia was the >risk of producing puppies with retinal detachment. > >Take care, Jackie > >========================================================= >"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 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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.
