FB 41

FB 41 You are right. Dog breeders can be cut-throat but what seems to be missed is that these disease events occur all the time, and there will be yet more problems coming to the fore as people inbreed. We are all the same boat together and this is the time that people have to foget their competitive urges and pull together to deal with the vital problem. No one person or kennel can do this alone. What is needed is some broad breeding selection across all lines, just as everyone does when trying to breed good dogs, and so reduce the problem, down and down. You choose to breed from the best dogs and particularly those which produce well, and discard those thet produce poor stock, so why is JKD treated so differently? And don't think I am some pointy-headed scientist that does not know one end of a dog from another. Check my www.steynmere.comwebsite. The one thing that really makes things difficult with JKD is that such a vast amount of damage must be done to the kidneys before symptoms of kidney failure appear. And amount of damage varies very widely, Severely affected pups may die in the nest while mildly affected dogs may not develop the disease until later, but most are young adults (juvenile) under three years old, hence the name.