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12-17-2009, 06:41 PM | #106 |
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| I too am very sorry about the loss of your wife. Your puppies are lovely and your little girl looks like she is a wonderful mother. Enjoy your puppies. My earlier posts were not meant as bashing you personally. I am sure you love your dogs as do we all and that you are a wonderful dog owner with your dog's best interest in mind. I just get to ranting occasionally when I think about pet over-population. Audrey |
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12-17-2009, 06:48 PM | #107 | |
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Since the statistic is taken directly from the UT website, though, it's hard for a lay person to dispute. I think the high incidence of liver shunts in Yorkies, whatever the statistic, should be alarming. This information from Dr. Center needs to be posted again and again IMO. It doesn't seem like Yorkie owners are routinely getting a bile acids test done as Dr. Center recommends. 2: The best approach to avoid "over diagnosis" is to test bile acids in young dogs of highly affected breeds (at 4 mths of age) while they are clinically healthy and before they are adopted into pet homes. Highly affected breeds include: Yorkshire Terrier, Cairn Terrier, Maltese, Tibetan Spaniels as well as many other "terrier" type breeds (Miniature Schnauzer, Lhasa Apso, Shih Tzu, Dachshund, Bichon Frise, Pekingese, Toy and Miniature Poodles, and Havanese and others). Proactive assessment of serum bile acids will limit the awkward circumstance imposed when an MVD dog, with minor health issues, is suddenly recognized to have abnormal bile acids by a pet owner's veterinarian. This circumstance can lead to unnecessary diagnostic confusion and unwarranted invasive tests such as liver biopsy and portovenography. How old dogs should be at he time of initial testing has not been established. Typically, abnormal bile acids DO NOT normalize as a dog ages ..... (all emphasis added by Dr. Center) | |
12-17-2009, 07:13 PM | #108 | |
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Oh, well, enough of splitting hairs. Have a good evening.
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12-17-2009, 08:50 PM | #109 | |
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12-18-2009, 08:56 AM | #110 |
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| On the LS. Why don't we do our own poll on YT to determine the % of LS and it's relationship to where they came from, ie puppy mill byb, pet store, hoby, or show breeder Creat the thread, then post the link to ll of the forums. |
12-18-2009, 10:32 AM | #111 |
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12-18-2009, 10:39 AM | #112 | |
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| Quote: It's scary that more than one third of Yorkies are born with liver shunts or Legg-Calf Perthes. The good news is that the majority of Yorkies live to be 15 years old. | |
12-18-2009, 10:43 AM | #113 | |
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12-18-2009, 10:45 AM | #114 |
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| I know the survey is smaller than some people might want but I thought it was very interesting looking at some of the data. While I knew about Liver Shunt there were other things that really surprised me.
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12-18-2009, 10:56 AM | #115 | |
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Me, too. I was surprised that Legg-Calf Perthes is more common than luxating patellas. I was also surprised how common epilepsy is in Yorkies. Judging from threads here, I though liver shunts were the cause of most seizures. I am so glad the YTCA is being proactive about the future health of the breed. | |
12-19-2009, 08:22 AM | #116 |
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| Mary, since you participated in the survey, maybe you could answer this. I was looking and saw that there were 220 responses to the survey but see no mention of the number of dogs. Assuming that many who responded were breeders, some with many years of breeding, I would think that there would be many more dogs than respondents. I was able to see by the graphs the number of dogs affected by various conditions but can't relate that in any meaningful way without an idea of how many dogs overall these numbers were taken from. Thanks for any help. Jim
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12-19-2009, 08:29 AM | #117 | |
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12-19-2009, 08:37 AM | #118 | |
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12-19-2009, 08:50 AM | #119 | |
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