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by Mackenzie on 20 June 2014 - 11:06
Margorie - regarding your post 19th when you said " Did anyone check the GSDBBR to see if there were any common dogs in the background of those with epilepsy?" I did not check the GSDBBR but I would refer you to my post on this thread dated 23rd March. I hope that this is useful.
Mackenzie
by marjorie on 20 June 2014 - 15:06
Yes, very useful. :) Thank you! I cant put it on the gsdbbr , because that is only owner entry but its darn good to know. I am curious if any dogs on there trace back.. Will take a look..
by Weezy on 24 June 2014 - 19:06
I have a 9 1/2 year old male, His relation to yours is Jabina Lewis (Grandsire) and have had NO problems with seizures. He is healthy male.
When I was a lot younger--our family purchased a beautiful hunting Irish setter-she loved to hunt, she was around a year and a half when we got her, one day while out hunting birds, she just disappeard in the tall grass and wouldn't come, we called and looked for her and found her having a pretty bad seizure. Parents took her to the vet and he said she was having epileptic seizure. we put her on meds to control those and they helped pretty well, She was around 2 years old when they hit her. We finally got her pedigree and saw that she was her own grandma. So inbred it wasn't funny. We had her spayed and coming out of anesthesia, she went into a grandmall and busted her sutures and bled to death internally. We found others that were hunters with these same bred dogs and many of them we spoke to had epileptic dogs and most had to be euthanized or died having grandmalls. Although They all loved to hunt and seemed to pick it up easily. So I do believe there is a big link in inbreeding and epilepsy. I know there are acquired factors too. been there done that. I am guessing that some didn't have seizures and were probably used again as breeders back then.The breeder actually knew his dogs he sold were seizing, but not all, and since they were "great hunters" he kept on for a time. Don't have the pedigree anymore so can't do any checking up on the lines.
Wish the best for you lucky loki and that your dog doens't have/get seizures.
Weezy
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