PROJECT. BLOAT HERIDITARY IN IRISH SETTERS

[wilko jansen]

last two weeks i have sent out many mails, letters asking for help. IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED A BLOAT, TORSION OF YOUR (OR BRED BY YOU) IRISH SETTER mail me. thanks a lot.

 

WILKO JANSEN

Hildebrandstraat 24

5242 GE  Rosmalen

Netherlands

 

Email: [e-mail]

 

Rosmalen, 11-10-2014

 

Dear Irish Setter lover,

 

This summer I started my project "Bloat is hereditary in Irish Setter". I write regularly since three years about the Irish Setter in the English weekly Our Dogs in the breed notes. If you are interested what I recently wrote about bloat, I can mail you a copy. Furthermore, I publish the magazine Jansen & Jansen with photos and articles about the Irish Setter. On Facebook, we have the Jansen & Jansen group with many photos and news, also from the past.

The reason I started my research. 1) In 2012 announced the AHT to do a survey about bloat in our breed. The aim was to find out whether it is hereditary or not and then trying to develop a DNA test for this killing disease. I thought that was a great initiative and after reading the proposal, I funded the total amount needed for step 1 of Phase A. And then the Animal Health Trust knew me no more. And then in 2013, the survey of the approximately 12,000 Kennel Club registered Irish Setters was finally started. Slower than planned. But asking more things and measuring the dogs. Then we would hear more in the summer months of this year. 2) This year I came into possession of the card index of the now 90-year-old Nel van der Sijde. And there was a lot of information of bloating Irish. 3) After looking in my large archive I decided to start my research.

As a result, in 2011 I was still of the opinion that bloat, as epilepsy, was not always hereditary. But now I'm of the opinion that it is hereditary. I have been looking at the internet for even more bloat messages. I did contact owners, breeders and have now already several hundred pedigrees over a period of 100 years from all over the world. Daily there are still coming in more. I get a lot of help from owners and yes also breeders. I'm still looking for additions to my pedigrees confirming my idea how it is inherited. Not only recent cases but especially cases in the past. Those old bloats every time confirm my idea.

Therefore, I contact you with my kind request for your kind collaboration.
I only need pedigree name. Operated on bloat yes / no. Died after bloat yes / no. And if yes, at what age. 

i am not only interested in bloat of you owned dogs but also if you had bad luck producing one or more in your breeding.
You can tell this confidential. But I'm a great believer in openness. That eases my publication in due course I look forward with great interest at your response, preferably by email. [e-mail]

 

Yours sincerely, best wishes

 

Wilko Jansen

 

For those who don’t know me, I am in this breed since 1968. And started in 1973 in the Dutch Ierse Setter Club a yearly questionnaire amongst Irish setter owners about their health. The 1^st club who did that and still does. I was then member of the Breeders Advice Committee and together with Wim van Gemert we have done quite a job (not appreciated by every “breeder”) to get less defects in a very popular breed. My experience will be published in a Jansen & Jansen special.

[wilko jansen]

yes i am. can you mail me: [e-mail]

[wilko jansen]

hi. i am home and could find the pedigree of whisky mac. only ;like to know at what age it happened. wished i could find the pedigrees so easy of the hundreds of usa cases.

[wilko jansen]

NOW a few years later. daily bloat work. and now more than 1500 (fifteen hundred) pedigrees and stories. the last weeks much information coming from the USA (bloat is a big problem there), Australia and NZ. and i have a few hundreds mentioned with AKA names by the owners on the internet. those old cases are very useful and every time proof my conclusion. GDV. TORSION is hereditary.

[Eva]

But what is done to prevent it when it is hereditary? 

[wilko jansen]

that is up to the breeders