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Originally Posted by dudley1984  Thank you so much, bjh, for this post. BAT is nice, but not helping much to stop spread of disease. I do my part in controlling spread by requiring spay/neuter contracts on my puppies. Over the past weekend I carefully explained liver shunt to my customers, gave them 5 days to get BATs if they want, with offer to buy back any puppy that tests positive for shunt plus reinburse the testing fee. They were impressed that I explained the perils of LS but nobody was interested in bothering their puppy with BAT; not worth the trouble they felt. These are highly educated people who did some research before setting out to buy a puppy... |
This sounds more feasible to me than to try to hold the pups until they are 16 weeks old and testing them yourself. Those I am not holding back for show potential are sold on spay/nueter contract. Those that I am holding stay with me until they are at least 6 months old which gives me time to have them tested for elevated Bile Acids as well as having all the other tests and evaluations that need to be done on them. Trying to eliminate LS by testing and than altering all of the dogs that either produce a pup that test positive or test positive themselves is a bit overwhelming to me, kinda like slaying a dragon. If it is polygenetic than what is the chance of the four genetic components coming together again to cause the same problem and are there any none genetic issues that are contributing to the problem? There are so many questions yet to be answered!