Breed – Specific Health Issues – whaddya think??

[*Nat*]

Good idea – unless we just add more to the Dog Breeds section  :-\ See what the others think, I’m sure Colin can add another section if we all think it viable  🙂

[*Nick*]

That would make interesting reading, I’m all for it.

[Justine&Rafe]

P’raps I’d better figure out how to do one of those poll/vote thingies this week then, see if folks want it.

Ahh the technophobia!

[Sweetypye]

One of the things to remember whilst doing this is that health problems in breeds can differ from country to country IME……….

[Justine&Rafe]

Really?

See I never even knew that!

So would be relevant for people to state countries then in those cases.

There’s such a wealth of information in the various people on here, seems a shame not to exploit it!!

[Sweetypye]

Yes because health problems that have been found extant in a breed in the US for example have not appeared in the breed in the UK.

[raindog]

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Yes because health problems that have been found extant in a breed in the US for example have not appeared in the breed in the UK.
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A good example of this is heartworm in Siberian Huskies – a big problem in the US, but unknown over here!

Mick

[Sweetypye]

That was not really what I was thinkiing of.

There are lots of diseases prevalent in other parts of the world that UK dogs do not get exposed to unless they travel.

No I was thinking more along the lines of breed specific issues which do not necessarily appear in one country but are more common in another.

[Anonymous]

Like eye problems in beardies the American say they have eye problems and in the UK we have never seen any beardies with problems, which is a mystery as all beardies started in the UK
Roll on DNA markers
Val

[Sweetypye]

That is what I was thinking of; temperaments appear to differ too.

[Justine&Rafe]

It’s all really interesting stuff, all the more reason to get as much breed specific info in one place as possible!

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