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How to microchip
How to microchip your pet How to Microchip Your Pet—And Why It’s Important BY KIRSTIN FAWCETT AUGUST 15, 2016 When it comes to finding a lost pet, microchips—implantable computer chips that are encoded with a unique ID number and placed under your pet’s skin—are way more effective than a Read more…
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L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria
L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria is a debilitating and life-threatening disease of the metabolic system identified by elevated levels of hydroxy glutaric acid, classified as an autosomal recessive disease through inheritance. The parents do not have to exhibit any symptoms in order to pass it on to their offspring. Genetic testing is the Read more…
Breeding Health Veterinary
Rx For Whelping And Ceasarians
Barring medical complications, minimal human interference is the best thing you can do for the dam and litter. Todays fanciers are conditioned to believe that the species would become extinct were it not for our helping hands. Actually, the domestic canine is in some danger but it is due to genetic manipulation and
distortions of instincts…
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A Guide to Health Screening
Have you heard your friends talking about getting their dog CERFd? See your pups breeder post on Facebook about getting OFAs done for their breeding dogs? Have no idea what they are talking about? Thinking about breeding your dog and want to make sure you are doing the best you can to produce healthy, happy…
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Living With L2 Hga
Our L2-HGA journey began in 2011. I took Willow to the vets on a couple of occasions as Id noticed her walking on tiptoes and kicking her hind legs out and a curved spine. Our first vet diagnosed this as a pulled muscle but unhappy with his diagnosis, I felt there as more to the …
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What Is L2HGA
The mutation, or change to the structure of the gene, probably occurred spontaneously in a single dog but once in the population has been inherited from generation to generation like any other gene. The disorder shows an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance: two copies of the defective gene (one inherited from each parent) have to…
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Cushings
There is no single test to diagnose Cushings disease. The history, physical exam, and results of initial blood and urine tests often provide a strong suspicion for the presence of Cushings disease. Laboratory tests that are most commonly altered by Cushings disease are an increase in white blood cell count, increase in the liver
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Got Itch
Like most problems with dogs health, most carry a very heritable component and allergies are no different. Ive heard many times people say that health problems are fixed in the whelping pen. When I see an allergic dog most of the time we can trace it back to an itchy parent or grandparent, just another…