Re: [pyrnet] Pyr eyes (now dwarfism)

[darrell goolsbee <dgg@star-telegram.com>]

<<It is interesting, but not very meaningful as fact tool.  It is also
> subject
> to bias and agenda as well.  Certainly anyone can submit anything they
> want,
> but that does not necessarily mean it should be accored any
> credability.
> When someone gets so emotionally involved they loose their
> objectivity.  When
> they also refuse to allow desenting voices to their views to be
> expressed
> they have passed any point of being objective or seeking facts.  They
> are at
> the point of wanting to tailor the results to fit their agenda.>>


If there are dwarfs out there with severe health problems, I would like
to know about them and encourage anyone who has or has had them to come
forward and add this information to the current record. I don't think
anyone involved would suppress such information, whatever "agenda" they
might have.

My opinions are based only on what I have seen firsthand and the
information I have available on PYR dwarfs. I am certainly open to
changing or amending my position if more information becomes available.

I'll have to admit that it puzzles me why there is so much passion over
dwarfism as compared to other problems such as luxating patellas,
epilepsy, etc., etc. Or "new" problems that such passion could perhaps
make a difference on if it were directed constructively -- like SAS and
PRA. 

I have not been in the breed a real long time, so perhaps I have
"missed" something. (Not that I necessarily want to be filled in *g*.)

Darrell Goolsbee
Fort Worth, TX