Myra, I've bred fish and it is not as easy as it sounds, LOL. All the best, Susan Cochran
----- Original Message ----- From: "Myra Savant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] geographic retinal dysplasia > 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. ========================================================= "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.
