BY FRED LANTING AND LELAND CARMICHAEL, DVM, PhD, Prof. at Cornell. Reprinted with permission from Fred Lanting and PureBred Dogs/American Kennel Gazette, August 1988; pp. 88-93. Copyright owner: Fred Lanting Breeders’ responses to early puppy deaths vary. Some expend a great deal of effort, while others “let nature take its course” and stoically hope the …
Revised December 2011. Copyright May, 1998, 2010 Some questions have been raised about how long results are good for, in the PennHIP reading, the OFA description of two-year-olds, or the SV ‘a’ stamp, OVC (Ontario Vet College), or other evaluations done at one-year of age. The terms “precision” and “accuracy” may be used by your …
PennHIP: Misconceptions and Misinformation Breeders have a very interesting tool these days in the Internet and/or e-mail. Information gets out much faster than print media can disseminate it. Among the accepted characteristics of such transmission are slightly higher “I.Q.” (inaccuracy quotients) and emotion levels. It seems that these minor failings are forgiven in the informal …
FCI Standard #166; (1997); replaces 23 March, 1991 edition FCI. Classification: Group 1 – Guardian and Driving dogs; Section 1 – Shepherds’ dogs with working titles. Versatile use: Guardian and Service (Working) Dog Short historic overview: Since the official establishment in Augsburg, within the German Canine Association known as the VDH (German “Kennel Club”), the …
June 1997 SV revision 1. General The Verein für Deutsche Shäferhunde (SV) e.V. [Club for GSDs Inc.] is the parent club for the breed, and has responsibility for it and its Standard, which is acknowledged by the German (VDH) and international (FCI) Kennel Clubs. The Körordnung (breed survey regulations) of the SV serve the advancement …
Perhaps no term is more misunderstood by dog fanciers when talking about inherited characteristics and environmental effects than the concept of heritability. It is necessary for you to take a little time and effort to get this idea fixed in your mind before applying it to practical breeding programs. I will try to give the …
The club for German Shepherd Dogs (SV) is the parent club of the breed, acknowledged by the VDH and the FCI. For the purpose of the conservation and further development of the breed, the statutes of the SV (delineated at SV headquarters for SV member-clubs) generally and in particular for …
Description There is a disorder (it may actually be two) in the canine similar to the “wobbles” in thoroughbred horses. Much has been written on this, with various descriptions such as cervical vertebral instability (CVI), cervical spondylopathy, stenosis of the cervical vertebral canal, and even the mouthful, caudal cervical vertebral malformation- malarticulation. It was once …
Revised 2012. A contributor to an e-mail discussion group back in 2003 reproduced a public-relations flyer from OFA without realizing that many of its statements were old, repeated ones that long ago became inaccurate and misleading by their lack of currency. I only have space here to comment on a few of these. In italics …
“Nature prevails enormously over nurture” …English scientist Francis Galton in the late 19th Century. Natural Selection & Survival of the Fittest Hip dysplasia is not common in wild animals because of the continuous processes of natural selection and survival of the fittest. In an environment where society removes or …