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Our Breeding Philosophy
Our
objective with our breeding program is to produce not only top dogs
with wonderful temperaments, but to better the breed through
responsible breeding of healthy dogs with proper genetic testing. We
are now striving to educate owners and breeders that regardless of
their own purpose to own a collie that they owe it to the breed to
continue with the necessary health provisions. All of our breeding and
show stock are now tested for hip and elbow dysplasia, thyroid and
heart disease as well as being normal eyed and free of any eye problems.
Here
are some links to helpful information on the collie standard and health
related issues for the collie. It is a very good informative site
that offers additional links to genetic testing.
Please
remember that while the Standard is written to be the basis of what the
"perfect" collie should be. Everyone is different in what they
like and how close that want to follow that written standard.
There are also many myths that you can tell Normal Eye collies by the
shape of the eye. That is certainly not so. Yes many normal
eye collies may have a "rounder" eye shape but that has nothing to do
with the genetic make-up of the eye, but simply that somewhere along
the way a nice normal eye collie had a slightly rounder eye shape and
that dogs offspring produced that same eye shape. The gene for
the eye shape was just more dominate than the correct almond shape
eye.
These links are provided with permission from Penny Lane Collies
Collie Education
Health Topics
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