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March 31
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January 27, 2008
 FN-Affected Hermione's short life ended today at 7.55 pm.
 Breeders who keep the knowledge of FN Carriers in their bloodlines to themselves have my whole contempt.
Their selfishness can never be forgiven.
FN can never be a private matter.
My thoughts are with Alessandra.

The minute you sell sperms or a puppy, your dogs are not your private property any more.
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Is Omerta a simple autosomal recessive disease too? At least it appears to be hereditary.

November 15, 2007
 And a COI-10-generation-ancester-table for Cocos too (93% complete) with dear old Starduster appearing 'only' 48 times and only 580 unique dogs.
And a corresponding COI-10-generation-ancester-table for Rapunzel.
Thanks BH, I owe you a fortune!
What's the point, some might claim, now that we don't need to know more than one generation behind our dogs and its OptiGen status?
I want to know and understand WHY e g Rapunzel's mother is a (hereditary) carrier of prcd-PRA.
Has she got it from L Sadly Sober or from Kisses Kim, or from both?
Since SU(u)CH DKUCH VDHCH DTBSG2000 WW03 Blue Satin Forever A One's  (OptiGen A1) produced no carriers with L Sadly Sober,
I presume that L Sadly Sober is Clear and that Kisses Kim should be the one who carries the prcd-PRA gene, what with her sire's,
PRA Carrier AMCH DECH POLCH 91 92 DKCH Lynann's Little Boy Blue, COI of 26,3%!

November 13
 Here is a COI-10-generation-ancestor-table for my sweet Bling-Bling.
FN- and PRA-carrier Scoly's Starduster appears 62 times!
The COI for Wiljana Ragtrade in the Swedish Rasdata is determined to be 16%, it should be 29,58237%!
Thanks a million, BH! My eyes have certainly been focused on the wrong dogs.
What the breed needs is a COI-base-site, with correct figures, where we could make our own test-mating-tables.

November 9
 Both SKK and Jagdspaniel-Klub claim that Hansi's inbreeding level is 0.0%. Here are the true figures.
Among Hansi's (theoretically) 1.024 different ancestors within ten generations Wells Fargo of Weirdene, a prcd-PRA Carrier, appears 65 times (!).
Is there anybody among us who has the guts to go on breeding with non-tested dogs?
And how about other diseases, that are just watiting to STRIKE!
Next time I plan to mate a bitch of mine her and the sire's resp REAL COIs will be highly considered.
Make your own tables and you will understand why you went into a blind alley and how to avoid problems in future! Or keep plunging your head into the sand!
Read Hellmuth Wachtel's article.
Thanks BH! You have certainly opened up MY eyes!
Read about Old Blue, Malthound extraordinaire.

September 2
Sanningar

July 3
Watch out, little louse! Photo Carl F

June 12
SKK/UtstK stryker Hansis avelsgrupps pris vid My Dog 4 januari 2007.
The Swedish Kennel Club invalidates Hansi's BOB Progeny Group win at My Dog January 2007 on account of protest letter from 'exhibitor'.
The letter from the SKK does not say whether judge Frank Kane is now banned from the Swedish show grounds or not, for
disregarding Miss Karin Staaf's, at the time on the Cocker Spanielklubben Committee, refusal to participate with SU(u)CH NUCH Backhills Farah Diba
in Farah Diba's father's, VDHCH DECH SU(u)CH DKUCH KBHV04 NordV03 SV05 Midnight Train Vom Rauhen Holz's, progeny group,
in spite of the fact that SU(u)CH NUCH Backhills Farah Diba's was stacked in the ring, with her own progeny group, for the judge to see,
same procedure as at Uddevalla on April 1, 2006.
Well, this seems to be the only way to beat my old boy and his progeny groups. On paper.
ROFL!
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NB From January 1, 2007, it is OK with the SKK to refuse to participate with your dog/bitch in somebody else's progeny group
but the SKK considers it to be good 'cynologic' morals to participate in a progeny group if you are asked to.
The SKK keeps sending me letters informing me that my old boy has a group at their show, I groom him, bring him with me 500 kms,
just to learn that, no, the owner of one of the bitches listed in the SKK progeny letter to me, does not feel like participating, even if the bitch is present.
A ring steward at My Dog Gothenburg told me that there are exhibitors who peep in on the day for the show, buy a catalogue,
check if their dogs are included in a progeny group and then leave the show.
What's the point in arranging progeny classes?

May 13
Juvenile Renal Disease
NB! "JRD (Juvenile Renal Disease) mode of inheritance remains as dominant with incomplete penetrance."
 Renal Dysplasia Genetic Testing

April 2
The Swedish Kennel Club decided on March 29,2007 not to take disciplinary measures against me in response to the charge of
The Swedish Spaniel- & Retriever Club, initiated by the Cocker Spanielklubben, against me "for obstructing the work of the Cocker Spanielklubben".
Neither the use of the expression 'insane' about the annual meeting of the Cocker Spanielklubben (see March 25, 2006),
nor any other publication on my website implies violation of the SKK rules.
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Svenska Kennelklubbens Disciplinnämnd har beslutat (070329) att Cocker Spanielklubbens och Svenska Spaniel- och Retrieverklubbens anmälan
mot mig för påstått brott mot SKKs grundregel 1:3 inte föranleder någon disciplinär åtgärd. Disciplinnämndens beslut

January 4, 2007
Bling-Bling won her 15-24 months class again and was placed Res Best Bitch, almost naked,
Hansi had BOB Progeny Group at Gothenburg, Mr Frank Kane judged.
Utställnings- och championabestämmelser 070101-111231:
"Det tillhör god kynologisk sed att delta med sin hund i Avelsklass."
Kan man trotsa god kynologisk sed och samtidigt ha styrelseuppdrag i rasklubb?
 Göteborg My Dog & god kynologisk sed
September 1, 2006
Fact remains, however, that the two Swedish dogs (one of which imported) that participated in the English Cocker Spaniel Kidney Disease Research Project
at Texas A&M University in May 2005 were declared to have a NORMAL FN genetic status and that the mutated allele was ABSENT,
i e they are NOT CARRIERS of the disease, although both dogs have sired at least two puppies each that died of renal failure, two of which diagnosed PNP.
The only data included in the Texas A&M University result letter are:
Dog name: Buddy (fictitious)
Sample received: 12/5/2005
Mutated allele: absent
FN genetic status: normal
There is no ID, no registration number, no pedigree name, no colour, no birth date, etc.
The mother of two of the puppies was tested CLEAR too.

July 24
Today I received a letter from the SKK telling me that the Cocker Spanielklubben, presidented by Monica Forsander, has asked them to take disciplinary measures against me
"for obstructing the work of the Cocker Spanielklubben". Avskrift av CSK:s anmälan till SKK:s Disciplinnämnd
No membership in the world can make me give up my human rights freedom of speech and freedom to express my opinion.
My loyalty is with the breed. SSRK biträder CSK:s anmälan (avskrift)

April 4
 Svar från Vet Med Dr Astrid Hoppe, Institution för kirurgi och medicin, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, angående motsägelsefull information om PNP inför årsmötet 25 mars:
"... det är rätt att arvsgången ej är utredd på de flesta raser utom shihtzu, men eftersom sjukdomen leder till samma problem och ser likartad ut
så är det troligt att sjukdomen är ärftlig i samtliga drabbade raser. Rekommendationen från min sida blir därför att vara försiktig i sitt avelsarbete genom att
inte använda kullsyskon och föräldrar i avel till en valp som diagnostiserats med renal dysplasi.
Diagnosen renal dysplasi ställs genom histologisk undersökning i ljusmikroskop av njurvävnad, där njurvävnaden kan tas genom biopsi eller efter obduktion.
Njursjukdomarna Fanconis syndrom och cystinuri diagnostiseras genom urinprov där onormalt hög utsöndring av aminosyror (ffa cystin) kan ses."

March 29
At the breeders' PNP information meeting at Uppsala on December 7, 2005, arranged by the Cockerklubben Uppsala/Länsförsäkringar (insurance company),
the attending breeders were informed by the lecturer, referred to at the annual meeting of the Cocker Spanielklubben, Sweden, on March 25,
and considered Sweden's only PNP expert, that, quote cutting from the memoranda of one attending member of the Cocker Spanielklubben:
"Ärftligheten är inte känd, tyder på recessivt anlag, vet inte säkert. Skydda sig mot recessiva sjukdomar. Föräldrar och helsyskon till en sjuk hund skall INTE användas."!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Translation word for word: "Hereditariness is not known, indicates recessive disposition, does/do not know for sure. Protect oneself/oneselves against recessive diseases.
Parents and full sisters and brothers to an affected dog are NOT to be used."
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Att jämföras med Astrid Hoppe: "Under årens lopp har dessa medfödda njursjukdomar givits olika beteckningar som med största sannolikhet (!!!) beskriver en och samma defekt.
Som exempel kan nämnas: njurbarkshypoplasi hos cocker spaniel, familjär njursjukdom hos norsk älghund och samojed,
progressiv njursjukdom hos lhasa apso, shih tzu och soft coated wheaten terrier." samt vidare:
"... sjukdomen har en enkel recessiv arvsgång."

March 25
Insane annual meeting of Cocker Spanielklubben, Sweden
Our Cocker Spanielklubben accepts that we go on breeding with dogs/bitches that have produced puppies that died of renal failure
but does NOT accept breeding with dogs/bitches OptiGen-tested as carriers/B1s.
A small step for the club but a giant leap back to the 1940s for the breed!

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