Degenerative Myleopathy

When is it a good time to get my Corgi tested for this disease? She is almost two years old and i saw that Corgis are highly known for having this problem. Does anyone know when i should get her tested and if so, are there some who test it here in orlando?

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Comment by Chloe's parent Liz on January 30, 2009 at 1:25am: I lost my 1st Pembroke Corgi to that disease. He was 12 when we had to put him down. It was his mind was there, but his body wouldn't work. A wheelchair was not the answer for us because the vet told me that I'd have to learn how to evacuate his bowel and bladder, I was not home at the time to take care of him. It was very hard to put Rusty down. I would only want to know if I was a breeder. I asked Chloe's breeder if her line had that disease.

Comment by Sarah C. on January 29, 2009 at 2:43pm: unless i was a breeder.

Comment by Sarah C. on January 29, 2009 at 2:43pm: A good question when thinking about doing this kind of testing is, what would you do differently if it was positive? As far as I'm told, there's not a lot you can do about D.M. I personally, would not want to know until it is visible.

Comment by John Wolff on January 29, 2009 at 1:46pm: Remember that DM shows "incomplete penetrance": even if a dog does have both copies mutant, it still may not develop DM.
Even if one's dog is homozygous and highly at-risk, I'm not sure there's anything one can to about that.
I think such tests are valuable mostly to breeders for detecting carriers. If carriers are not bred, the mutation can be bred out of the population.