[ringoandmommy]

So. To clear a few things up.



The whole ordeal with my breeder and the diabetic gene goes back a long time. They didn't do a genetic test to find a diabetic marker. The whole thing is very complicated, but just to make it very generic. My dog had a disposition for diabetes.
Diabetes does skip generations in humans and dogs, but not all the time.
Just like a red hair gene, or a blue eye gene. For example, my boyfriend's parents and grandparents all have brown eyes, so this must mean that he has brown eyes, right? No, he has blue eyes, because one of his great grandparents had the gene for it, and it happened to show up in his generation. Just like diabetes, it might have happened ten or twenty generations ago, but if people with the gene keep breeding, it will eventually show back up, and doctors and vets can tell from previous history, if it goes back that far. Bringing me back to my point that the ordeal with my breeder goes back a long way.

Diabetes isn't completely genetic either. People get it with no family history. I never said it HAD to be genetic, it's just that your chances of having it are greater if you have a genetic history of it. My grandmother was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes with no family history whatsoever.

So, for those of you that misunderstood, I know you think I'm an idiot, but it was just a very complicated situation, and I guess trying to make a general summary of it wasn't such a good idea.