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Originally Posted by yorkielady06  In the big picture I believe yes. If you have a dog with MVD or LP or Legg-perthes and you breed that dog I feel that your have increased your chances of producing a pup with that disorder. I know LS do not follow that however how many breeders would breed a LS dog? None that I know of, why? |
I agree!! This is exactly how I was thinking. If you had one that had high bile acids you probably wouldn't breed that dog right? But how would you know that in the first place if you never had them tested to begin with?
So for all you know, if you don't test, you can be breeding dogs with high bile acids and that just doesn't seem like a good outcome.
No, testing doesn't guarantee anything but I think it still sheds a little insight on the matter and I would rather test and not be intentionally breeding dogs with high bile acids. Because if you aren't testing you could very well be intentionally breeding dogs with high bile acids.
I once heard that there is a certain hormone that the dam produces that may determine whether that pup is born with a liver shunt. If the dam doesn't produce this certain hormone during conception than they end up with a pup with LS.
I don't know how much was looked into it but I think it kinda makes more sense than it being genetic. Because it would explain why you could breed the same pair and end up with a LS pup one time and no LS pups another time.