Health of Pedigree Dogs

The health of pedigree dogs is at risk due to show ring fixations on exaggerations and a propensity to inbreed. Some breed standards need to change, and a ceiling needs to be put on Coefficients of Inbreeding. Because the AKC will not change, it has seen a 55% decline in registrations in the last 15 years.

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• pedigree dogs
• shows dog
• dog health
• veterinary
• genetics
• work dogs
• dog shows
• American Kennel Club
• AKC
• disease
• defect
• inbreeding

[PBurns3711]

Barebackrocks you an ignorant. Pedigree dogs are created by inbreeding, and the inbreeding is assured by closing the registry and breeding to the few show-winning sires. As for suck-ass spaniels, they are a cloddy and poor-moving dog which is very heavily inbred because they are so rare. Of course they attract people who have ego needs for ribbons, and who think a rare breed somehow makes THEM special. At the shows, it's never about the dogs.

[PBurns3711]

Cursedk9 you are clearly a moron. That the Westminster Dog Show. Please go away. The brain damaged are lining up in aisle 3.

[Skywalker91]

7:24 - That's what people think they are doing (preserving the breeds), when they are in reality changing them to unrecognizable forms.

[postmortem57]

what are the chances of having an ill puppy if the parents were half-siblings?

[khatanahlya]

I have bred once a litter shih tzu's. I tested my dog for HD, Patellar Luxation. eyeproblems, breathingproblems, Von Willebrand disease, kidneyproblems and they had a stabel character. No Shih tzu breeder test his dogs for HD, 20% had HD.

I wanted healthy and happy puppies.

[Retrieverman1]

@barebackrocks Sussex spaniels. You gottta be kidding me!

41.5% have hip dysplasia.

They have three major hereditary heart conditions in the breed. Because of their long backs and short legs, they have disc problems.

BTW, it's a myth that these dogs were always short-legged. They existed in Sussex long before Fuller began breeding them for short legs. Sussex was always known for its liver spaniels.

Google George Stubbs and Sussex Spaniel to see what this breed looked like before Fuller.

[barebackrocks]

we breed sussex spaniels, and we know stumps owners. theyre lovely. did you notice how they only showed the really bad cases of breeds? theyre only a very small majority of bad pedigrees.

OMG!!! the whole point in pedigrees is to make sure theyre never inbred.

OUR DOGS ARE NOT MUTANTS!!!!! THEYRE PEDIGREE!!!! check out Sussex Spaniels - research their health, then you'll see!!

[shepaluteprez]

@Retrieverman1 This has finally been happening lately and I, for one, am encouraged by it. I hope it continues as a way to improve the obvious lacking health of purebred show dogs. The breeds that I know of that have started this are the Dalmatian in their Heritage Project, the Irish Wolfhound crossing in the Scottish Deerhound and the Great Dane, and the Chinook that went into its breeds genetic makeup to find out all the breeds used in the beginning of their breed to continue to use them now

[joycekesling]

Thanks Terrierman