Re: [pyrnet] Deliberately breeding dwarfs

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/26/00 12:16:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
mklimek@telusplanet.net writes:


> Everyone wants people to come forward with their problems in the breed and
> yet they don't come forward? Maybe we should asking the hard question  why?
> Maybe some don't want to face the fact of why people don't want to give up
> information. Everyone in the breed has a personal agenda of some kind
> hopefully it is for the good of the breed. I would not want to see Mini Pyrs
> but I want to have dogs with good hips elbows, and eyes to name a few. If
> your personal agenda for producing healthy Pyrs is not the same as someone
> else at least the good sense to step aside and let them deal with it for the
> good of the breed. If you can't lend support for a health cause in the breed
> at least don't discredit those who are willing to work at a problem.  The
> sooner we get a DNA test for Dwarfism the sooner we can move on to other
> problems.  I wonder how rampant any condition has to before their is panic
> in the breed. It seems that there is a lot of passion and panic about
> dwarfism that should not be if we had only acted sooner with knowledge. It
> still comes down to why were people not willing to come forward with
> information. Could it be a lack of trust? Maybe it is time to ask some hard
> questions of why people don't want to give up information. I think today it
> is more that the finger pointing.


I couldn't agree more and have never said it better.

Joe