Re: [pyrnet] Pyrs without Dwarf producing ancestors

["Janice Swenson" <janices@austin.rr.com>]

On 26 Dec 2000, at 9:12, Kerry Kern Woods wrote:
> I. I agree with what Linda has said often, everyone has to talk about
> the health problems in the dogs to protect the breed.  GDC is an
> excellent starting place for this to be done. Kerry

GDC is good in theory, but when is the last time the GPCA buyer 
education packet information been updated?  Should they have to 
rely on breeder honesty which we know there are cases where that 
doesn't happen.  How do they know they should be asking for eye 
CERF, heart checks, hips, patellas, elbows, etc clearances?  The 
average buyer cannot pick this up by osmosis and I can't say that 
they all sit on the internet on these lists.  Check the code of ethics 
and all that is referenced is disabling hereditary defects (tells them 
nothing about which ones they should have knowledge of) and x-
rays for hip dysplasia.  

Buyers need some resource to be able to ask informed questions 
about health and it's the buyers that have to hold the breeders to 
that standard.  If they're informed they can do that and maybe 
some things would change in the breed and you would start seeing 
more health clearances being done.  






Janice, janices@austin.rr.com
Lana & Linsey (newfs), Sonny (pyr)  
http://home.austin.rr.com/janices
Hutto, TX