Well, I finished reading all of the links Lisa sent and even did some more searching and reading and looking at lots of illustrations. Have a pretty good basic understanding of shunt/MVD, etc., signs/SX., diagnostic techniques, treatments, etc. That is scary and horrible reading but I needed to know it.
ANYONE WHO BREEDS YORKIES WITHOUT GETTING BAT's ON PARENTS IS RISKING THEM AND ALL THEIR PUPPIES AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED. At least that's how is seems to me right now from what I've read and the misery I've seen with Tibbe. And I now know there are acquired shunts and all that - but it sounds as if the majority of these diseases in the majority of Yorkies come from poor breeding practices, one of which is failing to properly test their breeders.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |