Vizsla Owners IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

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Also in AAD but I know there are a few vizzy owners who rarely venture in there.
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/Polymyos...0Pedigrees.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
 
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Ah crap! Still havnt pmed you!! Will do tonight...promise! Can you pass this info to your employer thats a vizzy owner please?!
 
please email Di regardless and ask if she needs a sample from ''insert pedigree name here'' she can respond with a simple yes please or no thank you as there are other sufferers whos names are not published. x
 
I'm not a Vizsla owner, although I hold the breed in very high regard and always thought that my next dog might be a Vizsla - we currently have a very elderly Pointer, and the Vizsla is my type of dog.

I know nothing about this particular disease, but can I just say that I have been involved in breeding two sorts of pedigree animal in my lifetime - the Burmese Cat and the Fell Pony. Both these breeds have horrible associated deformities or syndromes associated with them that could possibly be eradicated if there was enough knowledge and data gathered about the way in which the hereditary weaknesses were passed on.

I no longer breed anything pedigree - I have turned my interest to eventers because we can select them for performance rather than looks.

In my experience, especially with cats, owners of studs that produce inherent defects do all that they can to silence any criticism of their line. If a litter contained a 'flat chested' kitten (almost certainly doomed to die) as my first ever litter did, then the stud owner just continued to say that their cat had never thrown a flat chest and cut off all contact with the novice breeder. Similar response to FIP that was brought into my house from a very highly regarded stud cat. It was the death of the FIP kitten days after going to its new home alongwith the residual high Corona virus counts in all my home cats that finally ended my Burmese breeding for good - I couldn't stomach it anymore.

If people really care about a breed (I was passionate and outspoken about Burmese cats - more disillusioned and resigned with the Fell Ponies) then they will declare everything about all their breeding stock in order to help work out how the problems are passed down and to eventually eradicate them. It's just a shame that they expend more energy hiding all this than it would take to be open about it and actually deal with it.

Unfortunately it would seem that some Vizsla breeders are being reticent - probably to protect their financial interest in a particular stud or breeding line. The ignorance of this attitude continues to amaze and sadden me. They cannot possibly be counted amongst the many who truly value the breed.
 
Well said Bedlam. We are lucky that we have people being very open but its very sad that others are not so and are reluctant to even admit that its a hereditary condition let alone withdraw their dogs from stud etc. Some are not warning puppy buyers about pm or mentioning the fact its highly probable their lines carry it. Sadly there is no genetic test for pm right now, this is what is being worked on and why so many samples are needed for research to continue. So at this time all we can work with is being open and honest about pm cases within the breed, withdrawing dogs from stud that have produced offspring with it, no litters from siblings of those affected etc etc. Unfortunately when people refuse to see the good of the breed over money and reputation its a difficult battle to fight. Hopefully one day everyone that loves the breed will be able to say 'remember when we HAD pm in the breed'. That is what has to be aimed for.
 
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