eye and hip testing
i was wondering, if both of kirbys parents are clear for eye and hip problems, does that mean kirbys will be too????? he has started to have some eye discharge (some is yellow, but it mostly clear) i am taking him into the vet today or tomorrow,.... he was just at the vet 2 weeks ago with a viral cold. i dont really understand why he is sick suddenly.
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Permalink Reply by Alice on
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I don't know about eyes but I know with hips, having the parents score well does not mean their offspring won't have hip dysplasia. It is not entirely genetic so there is no guarantee as far as breeding goes. Finn's parents have good hips and he is dysplastic. A hip x-ray will show this. If you are looking to score the hips you have to wait until the dog is two but if you just want x-rays for your own piece of mind then it doesn't matter when the x-rays are done.
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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Allen on
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Alex also has hip dysplasia. But it doesnt bother her at all. She still runs and plays with our yellow lab. When she runs, she hops with her back legs but the dysplasia hasnt slowed her down a bit. Also neither of her parents had hip problems. So I guess its all luck of the draw.
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Alex is how old? How did you find out she was dysplastic? Finnigan is actually going to see a specialist tomorrow about his hips. I have a discussion going on right now about it and if you are interested in his back story you can check it out on page. I'm glad Alex isn't effected by it. Corgis are tough cookies. :)
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Permalink Reply by Joanna Kimball on
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The checks that are done on eyes are for genetic disorders like PRA and pupillary membranes. They don't mean that a dog won't get an eye infection or a virus, which is probably what is happening with Kirby.
How much a parent dog's health testing influences the puppy depends on the thing that's being tested for. If both parents are PRA negative, none of their puppies will ever get PRA (which is a simple recessive disorder). If both parents have good hips, they could have half a litter that is dysplastic depending on the breed. Hip dysplasia is the disorder most often pointed to as the "breeder's fault" and that's a real misunderstanding. The heritability of hip dysplasia is about .2 (where 1.0 means "entirely controlled by heredity) and 0.0 means "absolutely no relation to heredity"). To give you a comparison point, being "shy" has a heredity of .6.
So the short answer is that it is entirely possible and, in corgis, probable that many dysplastic dogs will be born to tested and passed parents. The key from a breeder ethics point of view is that you support the owner and follow through the way you promise, not that you never produce a dysplastic dog.
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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Like in humans, dogs can get things like pink eye that are very contagious. He could also just have allergies. Jack tends to get runny eyes, whereas Maddie doesn't.
Joanna already answered about the hereditary disorders.
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Finn's eye's can get red and irritated and he often has eye boogies. I wipe his eyes all the time and the vet said it is allergies. I have drops to give when I think he needs them.
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Yeah, my vet said it's nothing too. Said to wipe them every day. Of course Jack hates being fussed over so he makes faces at me when I clean his eyes. :-)
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Permalink Reply by Amber and Kirby on
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yup, spent 4 hours in the waiting room and it was pink eye.... now he has some ointment i have to give him
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