Comments on: CCCI INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS…a website sneek peek!!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:58:53 +0000

Chow VIII, I couldnt have said it better myself!!!! I love the word “quaint” to describe the simplicity of the true chow type. Nothing out of sync….all a picutre of symmetry. Thank you so much for your comment.

Sam what kind of cattle do you breed. My relatives are cattle breeders as well

By: Chow VIII

Chow VIII — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:51:19 +0000

I’m so struck by the wonderful looking chows shown in the vintage illustrations above. How different and quaint those dogs appear in contrast to the immensely overdone shuffling, snuffling grotesques created by the fancy. Bone! Head! Coat! Type!

Feh!

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:32:42 +0000

If you look through all those sites you will see the tests for the crossbred dogs.

When the club decides they want to get serious and one of the “big name” breeders wants to sponsor me, I’ll join the club and get involved. Right now I am having alot of fun with my cattle, it’s refreshing to be involved with people that care about their breed.

By: Sandra Miller

Sandra Miller — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:48:00 +0000

Thank you Sam for posting these links to US purebred health screening sites. I was wondering if you also had the links to these tests you mentioned in your previous post.
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Cockapoos, labradoodles, and several other crossbred dogs have genetic tests available”

If you are not a member of CCCI please join and become active in this important cause. I agree all breed clubs will need to step up their involvement in health issue research…… but the only way the clubs can make progress is by enlisting breeder, veterinarian, and judge involvement and participation. The entire community needs to network and actively test their dogs for this to work .

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:22:58 +0000

http://www.vetgen.com/AllBreedsList.aspx

http://www.vetdnacenter.com/canine-disease-test.html

http://www.caninegeneticdiseases.net/DNAtests/TESTSnow.htm

http://www.healthgene.com/canine/breeds_list.asp

http://www.offa.org/dnatesting/

http://www.optigen.com/opt9_test.html

Those are just a few, as you can see, some breed clubs cared enough about their breed to make the tests available, not the CCCI though. Just keep spending money on stomach cancer research, that is the least of this breeds problems.

It’s pretty easy to come up with these tests, as most of the diseases related to the Chow are recessive in nature. I watched the lab come up with a test for the black angus, they figured out several diseases in the matter of a couple of months, they are pretty good at it these days. All it takes is for the breed club to find a university or a dna lab to start the process of finding the mutations, the tests are simple after that. The CCCI is more concerned about having parties and such though, so I guess it will never be done.

By: Sandra Miller

Sandra Miller — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:56:50 +0000

Thanks Tuula for the helpful info!!! Sam we have a lot of studies being done in the US which include our breed. Most health issues in canines are not “breed specific” and cross the lines from one breed to another at some point so clubs invest in studies with the Canine Health Foundation and varuiys University studies . One of many examples of Chow specific studies I know of, is there is a stomach cancer study at the U of M being conducted where they are collecting genetic and pedigree information on Chows only.

I would love if you could post the links for the mix breed genetic studies Sam. I had no idea anyone was creating genetic markers for crossbreeds. That would be very interesting to see what they are doing.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:48:30 +0000

I’m glad to see some effort is being made in the purebred dog breeding world. It’s pretty sad that the Chow, one of the oldest breeds in the world, if not the oldest, has no genetic studies being done to save the breed from it’s certain demise. Cockapoos, labradoodles, and several other crossbred dogs have genetic tests available to breed healthy dogs, yet we have none for the Chow, sad!

By: Tuula-Maija Tammelin

Tuula-Maija Tammelin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:00:03 +0000

“And to all Chow Clubs Internationally, Worldchow would love to know of any major events and articles you would love to share.” – I’m sure some private input is ok too …

The event in UK feels very much like a must. “Breeding soundness & type” in particular … and meeting chow fanciers worldwide. – As I’m ageing and never really learned to dance this might be the chance.

Sam has a point of great interest in my opinion. I’ll enclose a link to a genetic research programme from Finland:
http://www.koirangeenit.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=86

The most information is in Finnish – left side up/down info can probably easily be translated.

I attended The Finnish Chow Chow Specialty just recently and blood samples were collected. Super!

By: admin

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:53:45 +0000

Thank you so much Bernice for taking a look at the site and for your comments. We are getting excited to start “populating” the site with data. I am trying really hard to make this user friendly as you mentioned which will involve some testing and tweeking as the site becomes public. You know how it is when you develop a website………you look at it every day and it’s easy to miss the obvious sometimes…lol!

We will be relying on comments from visitors to help fine tune the navigation etc.

By: Bernice

Bernice — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:39:28 +0000

So far it looks very user friendly and pro-active with well-rounded information promising to be available in all aspects of the chow chow. Thanks to everyone for their unselfish hard work – looking forward to the progress!

Thank you for keeping us up to speed.

Ciao!
Bernice