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Originally Posted by saschia
there is one problem with doing things with your future stud which the local FCI doesn't require - and that is price. As it is not required, only few people want to do it, therefore the demand is low and the prices are high.
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You are right. It is strange but in the Eastern Europe you get less money for puppies but you have to pay much more money for every test. You know - it makes the pedigree dogs VERY precious here...
But Daiva was talking about something else. Some time ago there was the topic about bonitations. Some breeders were writing "Everybody MUST have it. It doesn't matter if you have to travel some thousands km and spent some thousands of EUR. Good breeder must make it"....
Now we are talking about ED which is much more important than the bonitation because it is about the HEALTH and the situation is getting MORE and MORE problematic as there are more and more cases of ED problems by CzW (mainly bacause people breed with ill dogs and ED seems to be VERY hereditary). And the same breeders which asked (even forced) other breeders to spent a lot of money to make the bonitation in the case of ED where they do not need to travel and the costs are very small compared to the bonitation have one answer: I do not make it because my club do not require it....
Anyway even if it will cause additional costs I will ask the clubs to think about it. Maybe at the moment nobody need to make it obligatory but it would be great to say breeders and stud dog owners that there are more and more cases of ED. And it would be good to check their dogs also for it. It would be good because I personaly removed from my private "stud dog list" dogs which come from the line where ED problems appeared and where the dogs are not checked and I know many serious breeders have done the same... The risk is to high because it is visible that many offspring of dogs with ED also have ED problems (the heredity of ED seems to be MUCH higher than of the HD).