There’s no practical barrier to solving this problem, there are Low-Uric-Acid (LUA) 99.99% Dalmatians ready to breed to, and as of July 2011 the political barrier to registry with the AKC has been torn down.ĭalmatian rage isn’t caused by over-breeding either. Thus, the only way to rid the disease and the gene from the breed is to bring in new blood in the form of an out-cross and there are still pedigree purists who will hold the breed hostage to a fundamentalist and unwavering interpretation of purity. Even though this disease is not intrinsic to the breed standard nor to any other traits of the breed that need to be preserved, it remains another dilemma because there are no healthy pedigreed Dalmatians who carry a safe gene. They all have it and they will all pass it on.
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There is not a single multi-Championship Best In Show lovingly bred and sold for a mint Dalmatian dogs that is free of the disease gene. Their urine is filled with sharp crystalline sludge which can cause pain, irritation, infections, blockages, and death. The gene pool of Dalmatians is so small that the gene which causes uric acidosis / hyperuricosuria / high uric acid (HUA) /urate stone disease / bladder and kidney stones / urinary obstruction is SATURATED and homozygous in every dog in the breed. Urinary tract problems are not caused by over-breeding, popularity swings, or backyard breeders. In fact they are caused by under-breeding and founder effects. A strong predisposition for deafness is thus a sine qua non disorder in Dalmatians.
Cattanach, you can’t remove deafness without breeding against the breed standard which mandates the extreme piebald coat and favors a rather limited expression of black.
In 2004, he documented 8% bilateral deafness and 22% unilateral deafness in Dalmatians using BAER testing, making for 25-30% deafness incidence in the breed. In 2003, Strain recorded 7.5% bilateral deafness and 18% unilateral deafness. And the rates of deafness are not as favorable as you’ve probably read.
ALL Dalmatians are susceptible to acquiring coat-related deafness and the more extreme the whiteness, the greater chance of deafness i.e. dogs with blue irises or missing tapetal pigmentation are more likely to be deaf. The other two issues can not be solved without robbing Dalmatians of their signature looks: their spotted coat.ĭeafness in Dalmatians isn’t caused by over-breeding, popularity swings, or backyard breeders. It’s caused by the predominance of white in the Dalmatian coat caused by the extreme piebald allele (sw). The pervasive issue with urinary stones can be solved by changing very little of what we understand a Dalmatian to be (just one gene out of 19,300 need change), but the pureblood brigade is resisting the only fix for this universal problem (every dog in the breed has two copies of the bad gene), as it would require violating their fundamentalist and inane orthodoxy of breed purity. By this I mean that the major issues facing the breed are all intrinsic, universal, and inextricable from the breed. Neither of these are responsible for the problems facing Dalmatians, being a Dalmatian is the one and only factor to blame. Anyway try this again.There’s a lot of blame to go around concerning why Dalmatians are a train wreck of a breed and the favorite targets of such scorn are Disney and Backyard Breeders.
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