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Originally Posted by nanouk
HI Ina, do you base that assumption on Garou loup and littermates or do you actually have information from a specialist. If so please name that specialist, this information might be important.
Sofar, all i know is that the SWH shows 2 kinds of PRA, one late onset ,one early onset. The dogs with early onset that i know don't show signs of cerbellumdeg or epilepsie, dito ofcourse for the ones with late onset!
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I did not write they show signs of cerebellum Epilepsie but of Cerebellum Degeneration. The Epilepsie is seperate of that.
I know that of several breeders and owners from Germany and Holland, the case of Cerebellum Degeneration that I know the owner personally was as far as I remember diagnosed in the University Vet Clinic of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Which did a DNA-Research too. I don´t know your dog and I don´t know his littermates , so I can´t tell you if they are one of the problem dogs, but there are more Saarloos than yours or the littermates of your dog. Those problems are openly discussed since a very long time and I am always astonished how few communication there is between the different countries in the Saarloos world and the fights there are between Clubs and breeders or owners. The last thing I was told was that the two PRA types occure seperately in the Dutch Club and the German Club . As a vet I am interested in all news about inherited diseases but as Michael wrote before this is a CSW-Forum not a Saarloos one.
For me those genetic diseases are definitly a reason why I would highly apriciate if we would get proofed informations if the rumours about CSW with Saarloos-blood are right or not. This would give future problems to our breed and though I agree with Jos that it is of no benefit for the Saarloos if Saarloos with CSW-blood would be thrown out of the register am I not thinking that it is the right way to help the health status of one breed on cost of the other breed.
Ina
24-12-2007, 12:03
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