Health results (also DM!!) in the Wolfdog.org database

[mijke]

Originally Posted by GalomyOak

No, this isn't totally true. All NORMAL results are published on the OFFA website with or without permission, and it is their recommendation that all results are published to help with knowledge and selection...but owners must still agree to have abnormal results published - they may agree before or after the dog is tested.

Thanks for clarifying Marcy! I hope more people will realise now that not all results are visible.

European labs would get huge problems when they would publish test results (or share them with others besides the owner) In the past some did, but they did receive complains of breeders, so they did stop with this.

Now it is sometimes only possible for clubs to ask for percentages (without names).
But also this says NOTHING! Because owners make the tests in several labs in Europe and not in the same lab.

It is a pity that it did not work out in the past to cooperate with several countries to start together a DNA database for CsW’s. Now the test results and DNA storage of CsW’s is spread in all kind of labs.

Originally Posted by Admin

There is a project running on the university in Prague who is checking the DM by Czechoslovakian Wolfdogs. All you have to do is to send the blood of your dog (EDTA) OR the swabs with DNA material taken from the inner cheek. ….
………. Especially thanks to this project there is a HUGE improvement if it comes to the DM testing and the possiblity to make DM selection by our breed.

Hmmmm…… Are you sure the rules did change????

In the past I did want to cooperate….. (I even did send DNA of a DM/N and a DM/DM dog for their research)
And I also did ask if CsW’s from Holland and Belgium could be tested… (then we would have at least one lab with a lot of CsW DNA)

But in that time I did receive as answer: That this project was only for CSW from the Czech Republic and only a very limited number of dogs of their neighboring countries………

[admin]

Originally Posted by mijke

European labs would get huge problems when they would publish test results (or share them with others besides the owner) In the past some did, but they did receive complains of breeders, so they did stop with this.

Now it is sometimes only possible for clubs to ask for percentages (without names).
But also this says NOTHING! Because owners make the tests in several labs in Europe and not in the same lab.

That's the point - there will be always honest breeders who will publish the results. And there will be always breeders hiding them. There are also CHEATERS who know that their dogs are ill but they tell the puppy owners that their dogs are healthy - the database with unofficial result can prevent it.

Additionally:
Publishing DM information do not "hurt" anyone - even the DM/DM dogs can be used for breeding - only the selection is important: not to mate such dogs with carriers but only with N/N dogs. The same apply to the carriers.

Publishing unofficial information can show possible dangers and can prevent that more DM/DM dogs are born. It is why I do not understand why some people are against it...