Hi all, just wondering somthing, can you shed some light on this for me. I know it is sensible to get your dog fully health checked before breeding if the breed has known faults. There is a very succesfull breeder, and she has also produced some champions and does have a good name, but they don't do any health checks on there dogs. They don't hip score or eye screen, when the breed does suffer from both of these. So do you have any suggestions why they don't check. Is it because they are very experianced and think they could spot the problem or could it be another reason? I am just wondering because most of the breeders in this beed do health checks. They also have a fantastic looking stud dog which has not been hip scored but plenty of people are using him, they do insist however that your bitch is fully health checked before breeding. Please could you shed some light as i am really interested.

IMO money has a LOT to do with it. Whilst buyers don't demand health tests then breeders won't do them.

If I were presented with a "fabulous" stud dog that people are queueing up to use, but which hasn't been hip scored - I personally would think that the owneer/breeder suspects that there IS a problem with the hips - but if he isn't scored, then no-one can say anything........

I wouldn't use him.

Margot

If you don't look you don't find!! If they don't eye test/hip score, their dogs won't fail these, so they can carry on breeding with this stock & hope people don't notice. Can't understand the mentality of people who will have their bitch tested & then use an untested dog - but it happens all the time. Unfortunately, naive prospective buyers will believe this type of breeder when they say they don't have any health problems & some buyers don't look any further than success in the show ring. It's very frustrating when you are a breeder who does everything necessary - you just have to hope that Truth will out!!! Until these breeders can't find a market for the puppies it will continue.