PRA rcd4 RESULTS

[Gillian Kennedy-Sloane]

As an interim measure until the official register provided by the Kennel Club is fully up and running, the SEISC has decided to offer an opportunity for owners to post their recent PRA rcd4 DNA test results.
This will be on our PRA rcd4 page.
This is available to all owners worldwide not just SEISC members and will be in a similar format to that already used by the Kennel Club.

For further details please see the Club website www.seisc.co.uk.

 

Listing will be available sometime today - slight kink in my "html"  !!

[Carmel Murphy]

Thanks Henriette for the clear and easy explanation, as i'm not someone who  understands science very well;o))

[Henriette van der Zwan]

Glad to help! If you have any other questions, please ask I'll gladly answer them all :-)

[lyn hathaway]

agree with carmel a very good explanation henriette thank you

[schwung irish setters]

We received three from the four tests and we have a lot of luck so far.Denrose Diamond is clear and so are her two daughters Schwung habibi clear,Schwung Hillary clear,now we are waiting for Iamor of the Chicken Farm.

[lyn hathaway]

congratulations schwung on your results

[schwung irish setters]

Thank you for the congratulations,today we received bad news Iamor of the Chicken farm is affected and that hurts My amor is special to me and I hope he never becomes blind.A shame the test didn't exist longer.Then my dog certainly never would become blind.

 

Ingrid

[Susan Stone]

Sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed he never has a problem!

[schwung irish setters]

Thank you.

[McBIRDY - Jean DUHANT]

We were waiting for the DNA  PRA-rcd4 test result for Idgie of McBirdy (Jonola Dr. Doolittle x Frisbee of mcBirdy).

We received it yesterday and it a very bad new: Idgie is AFFECTED ! No chance !

[Laura Kolbach]

sorry Jean :(

[Agnieszka Rola]

sorry to hear such bad news... hope most of affected dogs won't become blind in the future, would be good to know about all of them. I believe it won't be as bad.

[Susan Stone]

I'm sorry to hear your news, Jean & Noella. I know you as breeders will have to find your way.

 

At this stage the question goes through my mind of how do we as breeders of affected stock deal with the question about possible brothers & sisters also being affected? At the moment we have been concentrating on how this will affect our breeding stock and have not spoken much about how best to deal with this next question. We are  responsible for the pups we have bred. When a breeder knows of the risk of having bred 'affecteds' do they send all puppy owners the relevant information and ask for them all to be tested? Even though an 'affected' according to DNA test may never actually become blind during the majority of their life. Personally I think I would try to pass on all the information I have and leave it to the owners to decide if they wish to test or not. How are other breeders dealing with this situation?