[Robin Lodal]

Originally Posted by DvlshAngel985

I said it more as an example, but it sure sounds like a recessive gene from what Mardeline said. If many generations can live happy and healthy, and then all of a sudden it just pops up, it definitely doesn't sound like a dominant gene causes LS.
It's like my cousin who has this disease that degenerates his nervous system as he ages. He's in his 30's now, and was born with no sign of it, but lives in a wheelchair with no use of his legs, and less and less use of his hands. I can't remember the name of his disease off the top of my head, but we were able to trace it at lest 6 generations back to the last case of one of my relatives having this. His is a recessive gene that both my aunt and her husband passed on to him. For 15 years of his life he had no symptoms.
The main difference here is we as people choose to breed or not to breed our pets, so if we choose to go forth and bring about more puppies it's our responsibility to check for all of this.

Its definitely not dominant... nor recessive. They do not have the genetic marker to even track it really at this point... recessive/dominant genes can be tracked. I just know what I have learned from my research and what I was told by Drs at UT.