Never did I ever think that I would be Writing about our Cavalier Breed like this after having been involved with them since 1973 ,but the Cavaliers are now in such a Precarious State with the SM and MVD Health Problems Afflicting them ,that it is now being Questioned if the Breed will Survive .
Infact so serious is the Predicament of the Cavalier Breed that I believe the Kennel Club is discussing whether the Cavaliers should be being Out-Crossed with another Breed to try and help with it's Survival.
Even the CKCS CLUB'S Chair-Person has said about Two weeks ago ,when she wrote in DOG WORLD ,that the Club's Cardiologist ,Simon Swift after Heart Testing Cavaliers' at the recent CKCS CLUB'S Championship Show, that he had been disappointed to find that there were only 3 Cavaliers over 7 years of age who were murmur free.
What the Chair-Person also said was how important it is for Cavalier Breeders to be Working with the Scientific Experts ,that they have given their Time to help the Cavalier Breed,but at the moment if no-one is Prepared to give the Data to them,the Breed Cannot move forward,that is the difficulty.
The Cavaliers' have 50% of them with Heart Murmurs at 5-6 years of age , and the CLUB'S Cardiologist said this is no better than it was 18 years ago.
Over 90% of Cavaliers have CM ,which is Chacterised with Brains too Big for their Skulls.
A recent Research Report mentioned that 85 Whelps ,all had CM.
All this now I would have thought,will be being considered by any-one wanting a Cavalier ,will be the cost of the Medication for any Cavalier who has those Two Conditions of SM and MVD. I know the MVD Pills our Cavaliers had to take daily were £ 1 for each Pill.
Now the Big Hurdle at the Moment which has put the UK CKCS CLUB IN TURMOIL . some Cavalier Breeders seem to be so Determined with every excuse they can think of, not to allow any Prospective Cavalier Buyer the Chance of Publicly seeing the Results of the Cavaliers who have been MRI Scanned for SM
All other Breed Clubs are co-operating with Health Tests being made Public, but not those few Cavaliers Breeders who don't want this to happen for the Cavalier Breed.
Maybe now Folk who in the Past wanted a Cavalier ,are now having Second Thoughts and this is why the KC Registrations have fallen so Dramatically in the last Two Years from over 11,000 to now just on 8,000.
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Infact so serious is the Predicament of the Cavalier Breed that I believe the Kennel Club is discussing whether the Cavaliers should be being Out-Crossed with another Breed to try and help with it's Survival.
Even the CKCS CLUB'S Chair-Person has said about Two weeks ago ,when she wrote in DOG WORLD ,that the Club's Cardiologist ,Simon Swift after Heart Testing Cavaliers' at the recent CKCS CLUB'S Championship Show, that he had been disappointed to find that there were only 3 Cavaliers over 7 years of age who were murmur free.
What the Chair-Person also said was how important it is for Cavalier Breeders to be Working with the Scientific Experts ,that they have given their Time to help the Cavalier Breed,but at the moment if no-one is Prepared to give the Data to them,the Breed Cannot move forward,that is the difficulty.
The Cavaliers' have 50% of them with Heart Murmurs at 5-6 years of age , and the CLUB'S Cardiologist said this is no better than it was 18 years ago.
Over 90% of Cavaliers have CM ,which is Chacterised with Brains too Big for their Skulls.
A recent Research Report mentioned that 85 Whelps ,all had CM.
All this now I would have thought,will be being considered by any-one wanting a Cavalier ,will be the cost of the Medication for any Cavalier who has those Two Conditions of SM and MVD. I know the MVD Pills our Cavaliers had to take daily were £ 1 for each Pill.
Now the Big Hurdle at the Moment which has put the UK CKCS CLUB IN TURMOIL . some Cavalier Breeders seem to be so Determined with every excuse they can think of, not to allow any Prospective Cavalier Buyer the Chance of Publicly seeing the Results of the Cavaliers who have been MRI Scanned for SM
All other Breed Clubs are co-operating with Health Tests being made Public, but not those few Cavaliers Breeders who don't want this to happen for the Cavalier Breed.
Maybe now Folk who in the Past wanted a Cavalier ,are now having Second Thoughts and this is why the KC Registrations have fallen so Dramatically in the last Two Years from over 11,000 to now just on 8,000.
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