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Why Health Testing Is Important

It takes two years before a dog can be vetted for breeding. Sometimes, an ethical breeder will invest in all the health testing recommended by the Breed Club and the dog fails one or more core areas and must be pulled from breeding stock. In addition, something may show up in a puppy in spite of complete health testing of the sire and/or dam and must also be pulled. This may happen to the best of us. There is no sure-fire way to guarantee we will come up with the perfect breeding dogs when we start out, and it can be devastating to an ethical breeder to have to pull one or more dogs, but this is so important when we commit to better the breed – the only reason to breed.

CORE OFA

CORE GENETIC TESTS

References ofa.org and pawprintgenetics.com