Re: [pyrnet] Luxating patellas and other problems

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/24/00 10:30:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
pyreau@erols.com writes:


> Frankie Glover believed, at one point, that there was some sort of 
> connection between patellar luxation and dwarfism.  I do not think that she 
> ever had a dwarf puppy, but she believed from something her Vet. said that 
> the puppy that did turn up with LP from her breeding somehow was a dwarf 
> (even though it showed no signs of dwarfism).  I had never heard that 
> theory before nor have I heard it since. 


Frankie did identify the problem in at least one of her breeding.  And I am 
not sure Dr. Browns identification of dogs he examined could be rightfully 
called a theory.  Possibly an examination and finding?  I am tired of the 
subject as well, but it seems to keep occuring in every invcreasing numbers 
in the breed.  How much more prevelent do you suppose it is now than in 1977, 
when you guys had the symposium that was printed in the IGPR?  It is not a 
happy event to keep identifying the problem over and over again for now at 
least 25 years and according to Seaver back into the mid- 1950 it was brought 
to their attention by some other people with dogs from outside their breeding 
lines.   

Is a debate that might involve some potential tools used in the handleing of 
the condition not a productive one?  If it was feasable, as the Malamute 
folks have done, to develop some tool to use in helping us make some 
mathmatical calculations that we can use as "one of our tools" in dealing 
with the problem, would this be "counter productive"? 

Merry Christmas to everyone as well.  I hope each of you spends time with 
those you love and with your animals.

Joe