What they are or how they got to this point really is a moot point now almost.. what SHOULD matter is What is being produced and the health of these dogs!!
We have a silent problem out there.. silent because people have been told to "keep quiet".. "stay still".. or "look the other way".. We have over 40 (I believe) cases where people have been brave enough not to stay quiet.. they have shared their information and we have followed their pedigrees. There are common names, common links. There are lines out there with this issue, this issue of seizures. There are definite lines to worry about, and lines not to mix together. There is information available but no one will talk about it.. no one is willing to share information, they would rather say "All is well" and ignore the problem. I have been told there are a few "clean" lines out there.. I don't know I haven't had the good fortune to have found any of them in any of my dogs... they maybe out there but these dogs are so tightly bred it would be difficult at best to find them. IMO
So, let's just keep breeding Biewer to Biewer and keep producing these cute little bundles of fluff without a care in the world, and then if/when there is a problem.. just everyone SHHHHHH!
In the end, who is hurt? ask Cleo, Mercedes, Lady, Fancy, Briella, Nobel, Fairy, Fellio, ... and the list goes on.
Diana
