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flowerpower wrote:Sorry, Scott Janssen. It was his dog.
mamamia wrote:...Suddenly we are seeing more dogs die both in the Iditarod and the quest from sudden "collapse" later determines to be cardiac related and with an enlarged heart ... There is quite a bit of related breeding among the racing kennels and you have to wonder if there are some unfortunate genetics being passed around.
What is hugely concerning to me is the dog deaths after after drop and while in the care of the ITC. That has only started happening in the last 5 years or so. You can't argue that it is becaue the race is bigger because it is not. Before the economic downturn there were years when we had nearly 100 teams signing up.
The Doberman Pinscher is in serious trouble. About 60% of the breed is afflicted with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), with 13% affected by the time they are 6 years old and more than 40% by the age of 8. The disorder has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, but the causative genes are unknown.DCM is fatal. The heart fails, sometimes in the absence of any symptoms of a problem, and the dog simply drops dead - in the middle of a game of fetch, during a run on an agility course, or while the family is away during the day at work and school. Most dogs die in their prime and even younger.We have good data about the history of DCM in the breed. In 1990, the incidence was already quite high, with more than 25% of dogs affected. Since then, DCM has increased essentially linearly by about 1.5% per year. At this rate, by 2040, 100% of the Doberman breed will be afflicted with DCM.
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