1. We don’t know what health issues the Pointer is introducing into our breed
There is one Pointer and well over 4,000 AKC Dalmatians in the pedigrees of current LUA Dalmatians. It is simply not logical to suspect that any health issues exhibited by the current LUA Dalmatians are somehow due to the single Pointer.
Geneticists that have reviewed the project believe that there is no adverse affect that can be introduced to current LUA Dalmatians by the single Pointer many generations removed.
2. We don’t know about the health of the project Dalmatians
Records have been kept of the LUA breeding program consistent with best practices of the time. In addition, a very large percentage of the LUA Dalmatians are entered in the open OFA data base for all to see. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no unusual health issues with any of the descendants of the backcross project. Health issues have all been typical to the Dalmatian. In addition, health survey forms have been prepared and submitted on a significant sample of living LUA and HUA project Dalmatians.
3. We don’t believe the incidence of urate stone disease is significant
The AKC Health and Welfare Committee independently reviewed all available articles, studies and statistics and concluded that urate stone disease is a significant problem in our breed. They report the incidence of stone formation in MALE Dalmatians is between 13.8% and 34.3%. DCA’s health survey places urate stone disease as one of the major Dalmatian problems. DCA/DCAF has spent considerably more money on urate stone research/education than any other health issue. AKC includes the DCA pamphlet on urate stone disease with every AKC registration certificate. The World agrees that urate stone disease is a significant problem in our breed.
4. We think altering the genetic make-up of the Dalmatian is a radical and drastic solution.
Since the high uric acid defect is fixed, worldwide, in our breed, there is no other solution. We cannot breed to unaffected Dals because they do not exist. In addition, all breeds are a mixture of several other breeds, and breeders have been improving breeds for 100’s of years by cross-breeding to obtain the desired physical characteristics. We have done a cross breeding for health reasons only.
5. We believe that this should have been conducted as a research project with detailed
litter and health records of all breedings and dogs produced The research aspect of the LUA or Backcross Project could be interpreted as starting when Dr. Schaible conducted the single cross to a Pointer. AKC then granted registration to two 5 thgeneration offspring. Research was then conducted when the University of California (Davis) team discovered the mutation of the SLC2A9 gene and the genetic test for the normal version of that gene. All other aspects of the project are a breeding program. Records have..
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