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What to do if your if your dog is LOST – SEE HEREImportant information to consider before hiring a tracking team to help find a lost pet. - SEE HERE Genetic Research and The Future of Dog Breeding (PDF) – first printed in the BCOA Bulletin, reprinted with permission. Attending the 6th Annual Tufts Canine & Feline Breeding & Genetics Conference by Kirsten Sigrist The first day focused on the topic of genetic diversity and how to best maintain genetic diversity as more and more genetic and phenotypic health tests are becoming available. While opinions differed on how best to evaluate diversity in a domestic animal breed, all the experts agreed on a few important points. 1. Popular Sire Effects continue to be the biggest hindrance to maintaining genetic diversity in any breed. 2. Health testing should be an important component of any breeding program, but breeding decisions should not be solely based on the elimination of a disease causing allele from the population. Breeding decisions are complex decisions that should take many factors into account. 3. The populations of domestic breeds should not be evaluated in the same light as wild populations. All domestic breeds will have higher inbreeding coefficients than would be recommended for a wild species. The second day focused on Hip Dysplasia. Although this is not a major health concern for our breed, there was a lot of useful information about how genetically complex diseases are currently being evaluated and what tools exist for making informed breeding decisions about genetically complex diseases in the future. Although basenjis were not the primary focus of any of the studies presented at the conference, many issues that are important to basenji fanciers were discussed at length. I have attempted to break down all of this valuable information by topic. MORE (PDF) Embroidered Club Gear ~ Contact Suzy Zeh or 1.888.828-5445
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Hand Made Xpen Covers Animal and human photographer, Mary Beth Printsky (MB La Belle Photography) William & Shirley Wagner Highly recommended books/DVDs/Blogs: Temple Grandin - "Animals in Translation" Patricia McConnell - "The Other End of the Leash" Turid Rugaas – “On Speaking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals” Leslie Nelson – “Really Reliable Recall” Michael Reed Gach – “Acupressure’s Potent Points” Denise Como – “Running Sighthounds”, “Sighthounds Afield” Robert Vavra – “Canis Basenji” BCOA store Jean Dodds and Diana Laverdure - The Canine Thyroid Epidemic - Answers You Need for Your Dog Dr. Nancy Kay - "Your Dog's Best Health, a dozen reasonable things to expect from your vet" Health Listings: Fanconi management- Dr. Steve Gonto – Outdoc@aol.com - Fanconi Protocol 2003 OFA - DIRECT TEST for Fanconi test HERE: Orthopedic Foundation for Animals IPSID - Cindy Griswold, (830) 868-7649 or serafina@flyn-hi-hounds.com Thyroid - W. Jean Dodds DVM – Hemopet 11561 Salinaz Avenue, Garden Grove, CA 92843 Tel #: 714-891-2022 - Fax #: 714-891-2123 Dog Food Sensitivity Kit NutriScan is Hemopet's novel patented diagnostic test based on saliva, which can reveal the latent or pre-clinical form of food sensitivity or food intolerance. Their test panels are for the most common allergens, and now include 20 allergens set up in 2 seperate panels. HA Test - Test can be done at the University of Missouri.
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