Re: BBC may axe Crufts coverage

[Anonymous]

I agree Dyane today as it’s been the day from hell with all the phonecalls etc, I pulled out my grooming box and played hunt the cavies I have 16 on my books two are under five both healthy, then the ages range right up to sixteen I have two that have heart problems and one that died two weeks ago at fourteen from heart problems that she has had for a few years.
And one of the fourteen yrs olds has eye problems if any have SM they do not have any problems showing at all, they are all different types so I guess have come from a wide range of breeders, as I have said before they are a breed to take care when buying but I still think they do a lot of research in the breed.
Val

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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)

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)
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