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Originally Posted by MyFairLacy  LS has been known to skip 10 generations. Not too many breeders will know the complete history of EVERY dog in a pedigree up to 10 generations back..that is a LOT of dogs. And what if there was an unethical breeder that owned one of those dogs that didn't fully disclose all info? There may be a LS dog in the pedigree that no one knows about...
And what if the dog is asymptomatic? It happens... The asymptomatic LS dog might be bred and pass on the defect.
A BAT is so easy and pretty inexpensive. It causes no adverse affects on the dog. There are no negatives to BAT a dog...well, unless it turns out that a dog does have a shunt and a breeder is forced to spay/neuter a dog they have a lot of time/money invested in. But an ethical breeder would want to know that so that they wouldn't go on to produce more with the defect. I see only positives by doing a BAT.
Seriously...why NOT do it? The only reasons I can see not to do it is because a breeder is afraid it is there and doesn't want to stop breeding the dogs, the breeder doesn't want to take the time or spend the money to do it, or because they don't know any better. Everyone here KNOWS how common LS is and how serious it can be. So again...why not do it? |
I wonder just how many times it has skipped 10 generations. (I won't even get into the impossibility of proving it is genetic in that case) And the asymptomatic cases are MUCH lower in number. It is common in the Yorkie breed as a whole, of which a majority have been bred by breeders doing NO testing of any kind, breeding any two dogs they find. Unfortunately there are no stats for incidence in breeders such as the one who posted here, who do blood panel, etc. I do not feel it would be a stretch to say that the incidence would be MUCH lower.
I would like to make it very clear that I am not against this testing, in fact I stated I would do it if I were a breeder. Again, I do not disagree that there is not a compelling reason not to do it. However, I do not see a compelling, LOGICAL, MEDICAL reason to definitely test every dog, ASSUMING breeders with programs and testing like the one posting earlier here.
I thought the point of this thread was simply to get breeder's opinions? I don't blame them a bit for not posting.