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Originally Posted by bjh  So what do you do if you have been breeding for years and then suddenly a liver shunt puppy shows up? The sire that produced the liver shunt puppy may already have many offspring on the ground being used in other people's breeding programs. And what if the breeding is a outcross, you don't really know if the problem is on the sires side or dam's side or just a bad combination of genes. I know it is frustrating but there is no simple solution. |
It would be interesting to do a survey to see how many people had dogs who were born with LS and were line bred but not sharing who the breeders are. We don't need to slam good breeders. I say this as a buyer who is unhappy with hers but I have no interest in hurting anyone's breeding program. But yes...I wonder about the line breeding. One veterinarian suggested that LS is getting worse because the gene is mutating. Well...woudl that do that more with line breeding???? I dont' know...not an expert there.