Re: BBC may axe Crufts coverage

[Anonymous]

[quote author=Bevers2406 link=topic=12259.msg237219#msg237219 date=1219214997]

I all those pitiful, trusting Cavaliers dying young of heart problems or having to be put to sleep when they’re in agony because their brain is too big for their skull?
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Well i have 2 cavaliers with SM & one has no symptoms at all(diagnosed by MRI scan) & the other by having three 30sec SM episodes in 2006 he is 8 next month & both dogs contrary to what you have written have clear hearts Lou is 7 & JD is 7(nearly 8)

SM is not caused by the brain being too big for the skull it is caused by the malformation that allows the brain to herniate & block the spinal cord & before to shout me down Ms Cuddy I was told this by one of the top Veterinary Neurologists in the world

Now I wonder why no coverage of Addisions in Beardies, Epilepsy in Labs ? obviously not spectacular the Boxer & the Cavalier.

I wonder why the makers contacted a breeder & asked to film a mating, when she told them she had no plans to breed her dogs in the time frame they required she was asked to do a mating just for the program !! How responsible was that(the breeder’s dogs BTW are all health tested but clinical & DNA)