Elbow Dysplasia

[Juniorwolf]

Originally Posted by Admin

1) The percentage of heriditary of ED is different for different breeds. I found results of scientific work saying ED is more genetic based than HD.

I would be very interested in such scientific results, as I personally have been speaking with one of the leading specialists in diagnostics and treatment of joint-/bones-illness and radiography (including PennHIP) in Denmark, his conclution is quit different.

Originally Posted by Admin

For some years we allowed to advertise such dogs here but it is visible new ill dogs (with ED) are offsprings of the ED dogs. Other lines are CLEAR.

And all dogs from these "clear"lines have official ED-results ? or are you just guessing ?

Originally Posted by Admin

So my question to rolf and Runningwolf:

ARE YOU ALSO FO BREEDING DOGS WITH HEART PROBLEMS, EPILEPSY, and STRONG HD (HD-D and HD-E)? Because the same arguments we can use also in this cases...

Ofcourse not ! Do you seriously think it is fair to compare dog with heart problems, epilepsy or strong HD, with dogs who have the mildest degree of ED(0/1) ?

Originally Posted by Admin

I'm for the these:
ILL DOG IS AN ILL DOG = NOT FOR BREEDING

A dog with HD C is in most cases more ill than a dog with ED 0/1, as ED is a term used for many different illnesses in the elbow and many of these illnesss don`t even have slightest degree of influenze on the health of the dog, compared to a dog who have HD C, but you have no problem with HD C, even that it usually have a bigger influenze on the dogs well being ?

By the way, why do you put your self higher than the breedingcommitees of the breeds origin ? I am sure if they thought it were so bad, they could easily add this to the standart, but apparently they don`t ?
Do you feel you have more experience/wisdom, better knowledge and better judgement than the breedingcommitees of the countries of origin, since you choose not to follow their guidelines ?
I`m just curious...

Rolf