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Very good points. So many of the tests done are for traits the majority of dogs never come up positive for anyway, just gives a classier looking list of "clear for" , But! some if present can end in blindness, deafness and/or death at an early age. Knowing that is a help in prevention in your breeding program. As well , In managing the future of your new or old pet if you have it profiled and learn it carries any, if you bought it from a breeder who has not had a profile done of the parents, which probably accounts for the majority of dogs "adopted" or "shopped" from the majority of dogs actually bred in this country. Since so few are actually bred by breeders who do have their breeding dogs profiled. As was finally brought to light by this brilliant research done in 2016. Wonder what the pie chart would reveal for 2022? https://ankc.org.au/media/6598/a-forensic-view-of-puppy-breeding-in-australiav4.pdf As for the "breed profiles" so many are having done to find out what breeds are in their dog? May as well just throw in a card for each breed and pull out a card or cards yourself . anyone that doubts that, they come so unstuck when they cant even get the so called ancestry of identical twins to match !

they kill people too, one took off my mum's cousins leg and she was only wading in knee deep water

far as I am concerned its a total waste of money, far better spent on dna profiling for genetic disorders so you at least know what your dog is clear for or has and if its been unlucky at least plan for how to address the affects of the known results of discovering your dog is C for Pra, PLL or any of the other genes that will keep your vet living well financially, instead of you. for example if you have a border collie or has border collie in it click on each name to see what it can inherit and the results of that. Click on "back to breed profiles " to check out the breed or breeds your dog is and the little surprises your dogs breed can be hiding. https://www.orivet.com/store/canine-full-breed-profile/border-collie---full-breed-profile Like this little number of example, but as a good salesman will tell you, "but theres more." Trapped Neutrophil Syndrome (Border Collie Type) TEST OVERVIEW: This is an autosomal recessive disease of Border Collies that appears to have been present in the breed for a very long time, and occurs across all lines. It is an immune defect where neutrophils are produced by the bone marrow, but there is a defect that prevents their release into the bloodstream. This results in a susceptibility to infection and tendency to ill-thrift and repeated infections. Some pups are small and fine-boned in appearance, while others appear normal. Pups will often react badly to vaccination, developing severe fever and illness. Most affected animals die or are euthanised by the age of 6 months. Affected animals are diagnosed by having a low neutrophil count on blood tests, but plentiful neutrophils on bone marrow biopsy. A DNA test is now available so that breeding animals may be tested and carrier animals detected. It is estimated that 10 – 15% of the Border collie population are carriers for trapped neutrophil syndrome. There is no cure for this disease. CATEGORY: Immunologic - Associated with the organs and cells of the immune system GENE: Vacuolar protein sorting 13 homolog B (VPS13B) on Chromosome 13 VARIANT DETECTED: Nucleotide Deletion CanFam 2.1 (g.4411956_4411960delGTTT) SEVERITY: Moderate. This disease can cause significant signs of discomfort and/or dysfunction in affected animals. It may involve relatively high treatment/management costs, and can sometimes reduce life expectancy. MODE OF INHERITANCE: Autosomal Recessive RECOMMENDED SCREENING: 1. DNA screening of all breeding animals prior to breeding (e.g. at 1 year of age). RESEARCH CITATION(S): Shearman, JR. et al. A canine model of Cohen syndrome: Trapped Neutrophil Syndrome. (2011) BMC Genomics 12;258. ASSOCIATED BREED(S): Border Collie, Koolie , Mixed Breed, check them all out. so being told a list of possible breeds doesn't warn you, your dog may go deaf, blind or dead before it 4 years if it gets the short straw. why breeders who dna profile their breeding dogs as where you should be shopping . adopting is a complete gamble when you know zilch about the parents dna profiles?

So true, sadly this problem seems to be increasing. I received a call from a puppy owner to tell me her vet had told her to sue me for the $X,YZ cost for the completed luxating patella op he had just done on both legs of her only 6 months pup. When I told my vet who had seen her at 6 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks and found both leg joints perfect. He rang the vet who did it and asked him "was the payment due on your SUV?". Telling him "that puppy was perfect at all 3 examinations", that "any vet can put enough pressure to move such soft cartridge and make the owner think the puppy has luxating patella even when it hasn't while so young." He told him and me, no way was the breeder responsible for paying for an op when no second opinion had been made available. He warned me many vets were now seeing this operation as a bread and butter income. Never forget the distress of a friend who was told she had to pay $6,000 for an operation for "elbow dysplasia" in a six month old pup she bred and gave to a friend. Their vet had told her to sue her for the cost. Lucky it had not yet been operated on and she asked them to take to her vet for second opinion. Xrays revealed both elbows had been fractured, questioning of the family revealed it had jumped over six feet from their veranda!

Perhaps I should add Why I decided to never breed another cavalier. the last straw was the owner of the last puppy, she as perfect at 6 weeks, equally at 8 weeks when she went to her new home. by 12 weeks she began scratching then it quickly progressed that by 16 weeks she was screaming in pain. The second she rang to say what the vet said I went to see her immediately to return every penny she paid for her puppy and how devastated we were this had happened to the poor puppy. How she treated me was awful absolutely awful, screaming at me! "How could you this to her. How could I do this to an innocent puppy? What kind of monster does this to a defenceless puppy and see her suffering, just to make money with no care for their welfare". what part of this had never happened in 16 years did she miss? sound familiar? anyone who breeds a litter. every one who has a child, risks hearing this. But parents cant rip shreds off who bred their baby, they did and have to wear bad luck and the guilt of, was this my fault? As my vet once told me, considering the millions of possible gene combinations. all that can go wrong from conception to birth, its actually a miracle so many turn out perfect. But so few remember that. NO parent can life guarantee the health of their child, yet any one who bred a puppy can be expected too! They face being tried, convicted and sentenced as guilty of being unethical, uncaring and cruel. with no defence. Thank goodness the parents of a disabled child are not attacked publicly for the same crime. To be a breeder is a very dangerous undertaking and the heartbreak of losing a baby puppy or their mum is bad enough. BUT that lady took it to another level that faces anyone who breeds and sells a puppy and something goes wrong after the vets given it the all clear. no one attacks the vets who did not pick it up, no one sues the vet who gave it the all clear. Its only the breeder who has to wear the blame the anger, the public vilification. so many make the decision never to breed. with good reason. I am home from taking a puppy that was not doing well to the vet to find out why, turns out the brain is not draining normally and no shunts available for a puppy like for a child . so there was just me and the vet to say goodbye as she went to a better place. Normally it is only the breeder and the vet see these puppies "that were not born to grow old bones" as my vet says. So many things can go wrong but the pet public never see this side and I doubt would cope if they did. I is hard to deal with but at least she has been given her wings and will not suffer as she aged. Nor will she end up with someone to grow to love like we have then have to say goodbye as we have to this little one. Very hard to deal with the ones born to die young. Be it puppy or Child. Had to watch my twins die but that is the risk you take when you love a child or a pet, same broken heart. So as for the cavaliers, that lady ensured I could never risk ever another born with SM again.

some cannot put puppy pictures as they have not paid the extra to include them too

not a new problem, well remember a lady whose chihuahua was picked up over the fence and taken, she was weeding the garden and the thieves took her dog so fast they were out of sight by the time she got to her feet and the gate and that was 1988

Exactly. my first were such glorious cavaliers for over 16 years but. and that's the problem. over that period lifespans crashed from 16 to 17 years to 7 to 8. there are even books that state their average lifespan is 7 to 8? for a toy breed that is tragic. as i noted somewhere I noticed all of them had tarter problems unless constantly monitored and cleaned , my vet explained they were bred with non properly aligned teeth so it was an endemic problem. after breeding two SM affected puppies Like your breeder I gave up. Just too traumatic and heartbreaking. one lady, all her dogs had been MRI scanned and clear, parents and grandparents, yet they still produced SM puppies. seems as random as HD unfortunately. I pray the day might come when they can be screened and all clear but until then, im sticking to being a spectator.

surely your kidding? no teeth? since 1990's they have had "the power" to "form the opinion your pets best interests would be served by seizure and removal to their facility in Yagoona for further evaluation" extract from a letter from Richard Amery the then Minister for Agriculture.... latest I hear is pending legislation to additionally be legally entitled to "form the opinion an animal needs to be seized as it may be at future risk". more teeth than a crocodile already folks their hands are only "tied" until they decide to strike.

blaming inbreeding for everything is just avoiding the real issue. parents carrying one or two copies of a fault are the problem and is easier to say the negative result was because of "inbreeding" which supposedly using related parents caused it, when in fact the only "relationship" in many cases was although unrelated they did carry the problem. anyone working in labs know of strains of lab animals that are so inbred, really inbred, to the extent dna sequencing is so close they can do skin and organ transplants without any tissue rejection. the difference is these strains carry no deleterious genes or they would have died out long ago. the labs breeding such strains are very conscious of selecting for health from the 1st generation. something the dog show world still has not learnt. to the everlasting shame of breeds that struggle to find even some individuals free of known deleterious genes. the majority being two copies with the very occasional with one copy. saw a cavalier breeder announcing two of their males in the world thus far to have been discovered to have only one copy each of the MVVD gene. which is believed the marker indicates higher rate of mitral valve disease at a younger age. It has become so prevalent in the breed.

Lovely story, my only but, is, they didn't buy him from his breeder. they "adopted" him. perhaps the new politically correct language for getting your pup now. nicer than hearing the new owner "rescued it from the breeder"

anything and everything can decided to do zoomies, even your kids and you. as for our animals, both wild and domestic, they just do it way faster

the natural progression of prohibition. thanks to the ar nutters dogs are harder to get and prices gone crazy when big money can be made for a hard to get, the mobs move in.

Anyone who breeds back to back litters and thinks its only a case of miss the next season and ok to breed on the second will be in for a surprise. The 3rd litter will be born inside the time allowed to register a 3rd litter. Hefty fine awaits. Check the dates she cycled VERY carefully. Few have the 2nd cycle far enough later for the litter to be born after the time allowed. Neat income earner for ankc if you failed to check dates

so right. friend took a dog from the local pound, tried to kill his other pets and the neighbours sheep. learned very fast why it has ended up in the pound. yep its back at the pound

one said "awaiting autopsy report"

the reason the ANKC litter notices NO LONGER have the name and address of the owner for over 30 ? or is it 40 years ago now? Is because when the police arrested a chap with mums and pups in the back, on the seat was a copy of DOGS, with rings around the breeds he was going to steal, the ones with the cross through the ring were already now in his vehicle. Not a new problem folks. Although today its more oodles on the sights now instead of purebreds

ABSOLUTELY, more and more new laws will be just as effective as the ones that say ALL PUPPIES AND KITTENS MUST be microchipped. I read somewhere its believed less than 30% are microchipped on the figures of unchipped that end up in pounds and rescues. so well at least 30% of the population obey that law after what is it? Over 20 years since it was drafted and passed? Or am i just being cynical? https://www.rspcaqld.org.au/news-and-events/news/microchip-your-pet-before-the-holidays

found the video. so? anyone succeed in spot the "faeces-ridden" referred to ? also where's the failure "provide adequate food and shelter.". the door in the back of the runs is to their inside kennel area of the "inadequate" facility. Bet they would love to destroy this. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=405293983604644&t=17

there were videos of the rspca looking at the dogs, one with a towel in her hand and commenting that "the dog has short nails, a sign of distress" considering the yard is concrete which wears down nails? also its on video the pens did not have even one poo to be seen in them. Having long nails could get the owner charged, first time I ever heard of nice short nails being used to kill the dogs on the ground of being a sign of mental distress? I actually asked rspca nsw if this is now going to be another thing for dog owners to fear? They refused to reply other than that the incident happened in SA and to address my question to rspca sa. so much for "faeces-ridden" perhaps they haven't seen the videos? There are still here on dogzonline in SA thread. Well certainly were last time I viewed it. they may have only killed " some had to sadly be put down." they applied to the magistrate to have ALL ten put down and leave to seize all the other dogs from the owner and put them down. That too is all in the thread here somewhere. to have the other rescue save and rehome all the rest before the intending killers got there must have been at least a triumph for their owner and those rescues that saved them who also offered to rehome the ones rspca had not killed yet. last I heard they refused to hand them over . anyone know if they were killed too?

Kinda forgottn the other rescues successfully rehomed all the others that the rspca applied for leave to seize and destroy too? Lucky for them their owner suspected they would be back and had them all gone before they got back eh?

Didn't think mine did as well with the dry puppy food. Compared with the other brands. they call both products "Pedigree Pal I think? As for the tinned. Made them so runny and smelly, never again

its not just being in the cargo hold, I saw two crates with dogs in them on a trolley line amongst the baggage, waiting to be loaded on a jet. . Along came another jet, engines screaming as it moved into the bay beside the other jet and the waiting trolley cars, it was obvious the dogs in the carry crates were terrified as the crates were rocking so badly it was a miracle they did not come off and fall to the ground. Why on earth not load them immediately instead of being not only in the sun for over half an hour but being subjected to another jet coming in beside them???? I saw that at Mascot airport. so distressing to see Having worked for Kelvinator for ten years and they freight parts all over australia. the places parts end up instead of where they are addressed to is astonishing to say the least. so what happened to that poor dog is not a one off as far as being put on the wrong plane. tragic it was the poor dog instead of an inanimate parcel

I can't take him to the beach for a walk because it annoys you and disturbs the vacation... I have no right to rent a house if I have a dog, nor can I take him on public transportation.However, I can take it to the rubble to find you after an earthquake, in the woods after you got lost in the mountains and had no map or gps; under the snow because you took a detour forbidden off the track; in the water because despite the red flag you have entered the sea, and your life is in danger!And finally ...He is just a dog, but he or she will find you. And it will save you!!!Dedicated to all who DO NOT love dogs!Nicolas Alarcon See less

suspect that's more likely, as I bet it NEVER arrived exactly the same time each day. it couldn't have. to many variables to influence its departure and travel times