[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: [amergsd] BLOAT...the best information available!
- From: zilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: AMERGSD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:57:42 -0500
At 06:02 PM 8/11/05 -0400, Doctrcorgi@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Jill,
>Just what do you propose as a means of identifying dogs that are going to
>bloat???
I don't believe there is a means to absolutely identify a dog who will
bloat, or who would have the predisposition to bloat, I doubt anyone can
make that prediction with a high degree of accuracy and if they could, that
would be one of the roads to resolution of the problem.
>
>Dont you think if this were possible it would have been addressed already.
Not necessarily. Many problems that are knowingly perpetuated are
overlooked for either emotional reasons (not MY dog), economic reasons (but
I stand to lose a lot of investment or potential stud fees, etc) or just
plain self-gratification - winning, the accolades of having a top ten stud
dog or brood bitch, whatever propels people to continue to breed dogs with
know problems, and they do.
>It is easy for one tyo say do these things, but greater minds have been
>working on this for 50 years...without any progress...
>SOOO as a veterinarian I fell a preventive is better than nothing..
It's the "nothing" that is plaguing the breed - the continued breeding of
animals who have ancestors and family who have succumbed to these problems,
and have passed them on to their progeny time and again. I believe that a
single incidental problem is just that and those kinds of incidentals will
always be present in living beings. When a problem becomes pandemic, then
the responsibility to try to eliminate, or at the least sensibly control
that problem lies with the keepers of the breed. Perhaps a preventative
is better than "nothing", my post was addressing the fact that preventative
measures may, and likely do, hide problems in breeding animals, which does
not produce healthier or better dogs in the long run. Would I use such
supplements, or surgical intervention on a dog of my own if necessary for
the quality of life of that dog? Absolutely, but that dog would not be
used in a breeding program.
>Perhaps you have not wittnessed a dog bloating..watching the agonizing
>pain they experience and the pain of the owner as their dog dies...
I have. As a veterinary technician for 8 years and a pro groomer for over
15, I have had been in the trenches. I also lost a puppy to mesenteric
torsion, so the pain is very real.
>I would like to circumvent both of the above...so preventing it is my
>solution.
I don't disagree that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, I
only opine that masking a problem creates greater problems in the long term.
Respectfully
Jill
Canada
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