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Originally Posted by mijke
Is (or was) one of you owner or breeder of a CsW or a SW with epilepsy?
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Yes - I know more CzWs with epilepsy. Some of them had to be put down because of it.
So far (compared to the whole population) they seem to be an exception, but... we saw almost all the dogs have something common with each other. We tried to find common ancestors of this dogs and check if it is a problem of two of the lines of CzW. Almost without success... we marked only one line (thanks to the responsible breeders and owners from Germany).
Reason? You already wrote about it. Maybe Pavel can write more about it, but there were also some cases in the Czech Republic and the breeding committee knows this problem but they don't want to publish the information. And so far we do not know all ill dogs we are not able to fight with this disease....
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Originally Posted by mijke
Unfortunaly in the kynlogian world a lot of people don't want to talk about diseases and hereditary lacks in a breed 
But when it happens and the breeder does not talk about this, and doesn't change anything, always the individual owners and their dogs will be the victim!  |
You right. But not only owners are victims of the insincere breeder. Imagine this: a breeder is looking for a male for his bitch. He find a nice HD-free male. What he doesn't knows almost all puppies of this dog have HD. Because it is not allowed to publish the HD-results of the ill dogs he has no idea about is. But he means well. He use this dog and the result are a lot of ill puppies.
But HD is a disease which is hard to control. There are better examples: heart problems, cancer (which so far reach only dogs which are ancestors from a dogs from one kennel).
But the truth is: so far we do not have sufficient information about illness of CzWs. I can make some conjectures but there is not enough data to prove it.
It's the reason it's exceptionally important to colect the information about all diseases and death causes. We will need it - maybe not in the near future but in next 4-5(?) generations...
So someone of you knows a CzW which died because of an exceptional reasons (a disease which can be inherited: heart problems, HD, ED, PRA, cancer, epilepsy, and, and..) please let us know. We will not publish this information - we will just save it for future until we will be sure we have enough proofs...