I have to say I find it sickening for someone to cut and paste information on Liver Shunt, when they obviously have no grasp on simple animal husbandry, much less the complexities of inherited diseases. The excuse people use "you can't prove it's hereditary" is nothing but that.. an excuse! Until you can prove it is NOT...you have no business breeding anything that isn't tested, and EVERY OFFSPRING tested. How do we erradicate this problem in the breed? As breeders, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE...if we do our parts to eliminate LS from our breeding programs, and responsibly alter any offsrping which test high, thus eliminating them from our program, then WE ARE DOING OUR PART. The same goes for Luxating Patellas, Legg Perthes, Collapsing Trachea, PDA and other heart defects...blue born pups, brown born pups, ETC ETC ETC. If you can't manage to be part of the solution, please DON'T be part of the PROBLEM. Excuses are like buttholes, everyone has one, and most of them stink! They are only a way for people like you to justify in your own mind that you are doing nothing wrong.
