[gemy]

Thank you that was a rather dense article. Food for thought. And what seems to me some changing of the beliefs on the validity of health testing as you keep reading.

Here is my belief for serious debilitating life threatening conditions, let us pull out all the stops to find GENETIC MARKERS and tests on our breeding stock. And very importantly have the database to record these under, because if parents test clear particularly on the single and simple transference we know we don't need to test the progeny either!

Every good breeder has to weigh a whole hell of a lot of factors before breeding, and health testing is an important but not the only one they need to do.

Function, fitness, breed type, temperament, coat color quality, bite, are yet more factors that go into the decision making matrix.

But health testing, intelligent well reasoned, coupled with a whole lot of other factors is very much a part of what makes a reputable breeder.