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Originally Posted by koboldine
they submitt the results to the owner, who then decides if they are published here, right?
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NO - OFFA publish EVERYTHING on their website. Nothing is hidden. It is the difference between OFFA and other "European" laboratories who ALLOW to hide the results.
But I'm sure the publishing of the information like we do know do not make some breeders happy and it will cause huge resistance. It is known that the breeders who breed will DM/DM dogs and do not make any selection hide the results of their dogs. And they are big opponents of publishing the DM-results of the parents basing on the results of the puppies.
But the question is if we will help the dishonest and unreliable breeders OR
if we help to improve the breed and the honest breeders. For me the answer is very easy...
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IF you really want to draw conclusions from results, shouldn´t you conclude from official results only?
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But it is what we do!
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I think it gets al little ... confusing for interested people - or do we now have four categories:
1) Tested by recognized laboratory,
2) assumption due to parents/puppies Test of recognized laboratory,
3) tested but not officially recognized,
4) assumption due to parents/puppies Test of NON-recognized laboratory?
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No - only two. Official - with written name of the laboratory which made the test. And unofficial.
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What will happen, when I get a result for my dog - and it does not fit into the assumption of the "results" of its parents? Will there be doubt about my dogs results (lets say they are from a recognized laboratory) or will the doubt affect the parents and the parent-ship? Do I then have to take a parentage test - or does the breeder have to do it?
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You must clear it with you breeder or without him. There are two possibilities if the results do not match - the parentage is wrong: thge parents of your puppy are different than written in the pedigree. OR: the DM test (of the puppy or (of one) of the parents) is wrong. I can not say you who must make what. But there will be a mistake.
It is exactly why some breeders which were mentioned on the forum for cheating the pedigrees do not want to make the DM test - exactly because they can give the prove that they cheated the pedigrees...