Vizsla Owners IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

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Please vizzy owners across the country read the newly published list of affected Polymyositis dogs. To erradicate this terrible disease Di needs simple swabs of parents and siblings of affected dogs. Each dogs pedigree is published (click on the name) PLEASE contact Di anyway even if you believe you do not have a direct relative of a PM sufferer. There are owners of PM dogs who will not allow the names/pedigrees published...your dogs sample may be useful to her, if you email or ring with your dogs pedigree name she can tell you if she would like a swab or not.
http://www.vizslahealth.net/Polymyositis Pedigrees.htm
Please please please ring or email if you have a vizsla...Di wants to be inundated with your calls and emails. Without at least 300 relevant swabs research cannot proceed and we stand no chance of erradicating this awful disease from our wonderful breed.
Thank you.
P.s Feel free to pass this info on, cross post etc
 
I am both nosey and too lazy to look it up :p, so what is PM and how does it affect the Vizlas? Are they the only breed that are affected?
Is it life threatening, or more of a debilitating illness?
 
Well done to all involved, people stepping up and publicising which dogs are carriers of hereditary conditions are doing the right thing for their respective breed, rather than hushing it up and sweeping it under the carpet. Wishing Di every success with this initiative :)
 
Im not a member of petforums, please could you crosspost for me?
Yes CC its super valuable info that people have given permission to publish. Sadly one of the top ten stud dogs has produced 2 PM sufferers and been withdrawn from stud....and good on the owner for being open and honest and immediately withdrawing him. Others are not being so open unfortunately.
 
Im sat in tears having just recieved an email from Di about Acorn our last vizz. Seems my vets findings of her birth defect may be crucial to research about gut motility issues in the breed (something I have NEVER heard mentioned or seen published anywhere as a problem) She was also from PM lines. I have her baby teeth somewhere which Di thinks maybe useful.
 
She sounds very on the ball, wish some other breeds could have such pro-active advocates and she deserves all the support she can get...would be a fitting tribute to Acorn if she could help others from the other side x
 
Bump bump bump! If you know anyone with a vizz please urge them to contact Di with their KC reg name to see if a swab may be useful.
 
So sad but if something is done quickly then you stand a really good chance of eradicating it and to those not wishing to publish, I wonder do they care about their breed or what people will think?

I do hope people put aside any personal feelings and rally to this, there is really no excuse for genetic disease to flourish today!

Similar thing happened with Glaucoma in Sibes in the 80's with one dog going blind, in those days they were still a relatively rare breed and certainly not on the puppy farm menu, but by Identifying and publishing the lines they managed to quickly get predisposition from 20% down to about 1.5%. There were no genetic tests then but they did have the assessment for predisposition to help. My sister was just about to breed her bitch when the news was published , sure enough she was predisposed so was never bred. She had glaucoma in later life and was in horrendous pain so they absolutely did the right thing.
 
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