2003 American Whippet Club Whippet Annual
Pages 176 through 199
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Ch. Mill Landing’s Majestic Legacy
Della
Sire: Ch. Morshor’s Majestic Dell
Dam: Ch. Morshor’s Fatal Attraction
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Ch. Mill Landing’s Tommy Bahama
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Tommy
Sire: Ch. Mill Landing’s Bold N’ Majestic
Dam: Ch. Morshor’s Fatal Attraction
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Tommy’s young hopefuls . . .
Mill Landing’s Player
Sire: Ch. Mill Landing’s Tommy Bahama
Dam: Ch. Mill Landing’s Majestic Dream
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Sire: Ch. Mill Landing’s Tommy Bahama
Dam: Ch. Morshor’s Minni Ha Ha
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Diablesse Surrey Hill Say Yaha
“Pea” or “Pivoine”, as she is known to those who know some French, is Surrey Hill’s multipurpose star on the rise. Though she was stud fee puppy, we will be forever grateful to her co-owner for agreeing to let her come back to us following the tragic accidental death of her much-loved dam. Pea’s very first show was the AWC National, where, despite no ring experience whatsoever, she topped a very large and deep 9-12 Puppy Bitch class entry under Iva Kimmelman. She followed this up with class and sweeps wins the weekend of the AWC Eastern, and then took a few months off to mature a little. This fall, she rapidly accumulated all of her singles, though major entries to compete in proved in short supply.
Pea also became ASFA-pointed at her first lure trial and is a promising young racer on both the straight and oval tracks. She is intelligent, willing, a hard worker, and I know she will be a credit to her multipurpose ancestry in 2004 and all the years to come.
Sound and solid and sensible, with a beautiful expression and shapely body. Pea is bound to be a cornerstone of our future efforts. We feel truly blessed to have her.
Bred by: Karen B. Lee and Carolyn J. Bowers
Owned by: Karen B. Lee and Leila Anichini-Downen
SURREY HILL WHIPPETS
381 Little Elk Creek, Lincoln University, PA 19352 / (610) 932-4456
Pea and all ten of her littermates are BAER-normal as tested by UPENN SOVM
Watch Me
Bishop
An extraordinary event took place in 2003.
Isabell Stoffers graciously allowed us to breed our girl
BIS, SBIS Ch. Watch Me True At First Light
to Isabell’s departed, but beloved
BIS, SBIS Ch. Runner’s He’s The Continental.
A miracle was born out of Tally’s stored sperm. His name is
Watch Me O’Continental Light of Cottonwood “Bishop”
Bishop’s birth is a marvel of nature. We are ever so grateful Isabell
permitted Bishop to enter our lives. He would make Tally proud.
Jeanne Williams hevincent@earthlink.net |
Harriett Vincent hevincent@earthlink.net |
BAER hearing testing was again offered with the 2003 AWC National Specialty in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The Whippet Health Foundation again subsidized a portion of the per dog cost for each Whippet BAER hearing tested. Dr. Joann Randall and Dr. Glenn Mayer conducted the BAER testing. Each examiner found one Whippet to be unilaterally deaf, or deaf in one ear. Dr. Mayer commented that “the owner had no idea that her dog was affected which is often the case.” The BAER (brainstem auditory evoked response) test is a one-time only test to definitively determine if your dog can hear. The test usually takes 10-15 minutes and sedation is not necessary. Test results are confidential. It is very important for everyone to have their Whippets BAER tested, particularly animals used for breeding. It is possible for a dog to be deaf in one ear and appear to have normal hearing. Deafness is not common in the breed, however a number of Whippets have been reported with deafness in one or both ears. To learn more about deafness in dogs and cats, including a list of testing sites, go to http://www.lsu.edu /deafness/deaf.htm. A videotape is available of Dr. George Strain’s informative canine deafness seminar presented at the St. Louis AWC National. It includes questions and answers which followed the presentation, plus a demonstration of a Whippet being BAER tested. Cost of the 1 hour 25 minute videotape is $10 plus $3.20 for Priority postage. The profits from the sale of this videotape will benefit the Whippet Health Foundation, Inc. To order a copy, send a check (in US funds) made payable to Mary Beth Arthur at the address below. The Whippet Health Foundation Board has voted to continue subsidizing health testing clinics at the National as long as the financial condition of the Foundation warrants it. The Whippet Health Foundation is not pursuing the research project on retained testicles at this time mainly because it was too expensive. However, the researcher, Dr. Alexander Agoulnik, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas is submitting a proposal to the National Institutes of Health for funding. If funded he will include the Whippet in his study because of the high incidence of retained testicles in the breed. We are grateful to all those individuals that have donated to the Whippet Health Foundation. Those donations will help us do further investigation into Whippet cardiac health as well as continue to subsidize owners expense for health testing at the National Specialties. www.whippethealthfoundation.org |
2003 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Beth Arthur, President Cora Miller, Vice President Lisa Costello, Treasurer Diane Laratta, Secretary Connie Austin Connie Brunkow Mrs. Pat Dresser Cathy Gaidos
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Here we are again - another year and another annual CERF Report! In 2003, 361 whippets had CERF exams: 206 males, 141 bitches, and 14 with no gender identified. Of these, 175 dogs (85%), 116 bitches (82%), and 13 no gender I.D. (93%) were found normal. This compares with 230 dogs of 271 (85%), 143 of 178 bitches (80%), and 6 of 7 no gender I.D. (86%) normal in 2002. Please remember that the numbers I report for the current year will usually be a little lower, than when I re-report the following year, since some of the exam forms for the current year may not yet be in the database. Also remember that any animal rechecked in the same year will not be included a second time - i.e., they are not double counted. The problems identified in the remaining whippets include 2 bitches with generalized suspicious retinal atrophy (possibly PRA, but not positively identified), 6 animals with cataracts which are probably inherited, and 12 with cataracts whose significance is unknown. Twenty-three whippets had vitreal degeneration of various types and 1 had persistent embryonic vessels. In addition, 21 animals had conditions not specifically identified; 1 was considered inherited, the remaining 20 were diagnosed as non-inherited. Lastly, 4 whippets had problems in the iris, none of which were considered inherited. When you look at the CERF report itself, any condition considered inherited or suspicious will be marked with an asterisk (*) if not specifically stated to be inherited in the condition label. Also let me remind you that someimes the numbers for the different conditions add up to more than the total - this is because sometimes the same dog will have more than one condition. Unfortunately, which dogs those might be are not indicated in the report.
As you can see, the number of whippets with inherited conditions has remained fairly flat for these 2 years and that is indeed true for several years. In one way, I see that as a good thing, but I would also like to see those numbers going down. Certainly there will always be a certain number of animals with abnormalities in the gene pool, but at least we should be careful to cull them out as breeding animals. My main concern is that the total numbers checked has remained flat or slightly declined in the past years. I’d really encourage folks to step up and make sure all breeding stock is checked at least every 18-24 months, though, ideally, annual exams are best, especially for males being used regularly. Another concern is that there have been 2 or 3 whippets each year for the past 3-4 years who have been diagnosed with something that the examiner calls suspicious retinal atrophy - no one has definitively said that it is PRA, but knowing how devastating the disease can be, I would strongly recommend anyone who has relatives to animals with this diagnosis have them checked. Of course, the CERF report doesn’t identify these individuals, but I would hope that a breeder who has a whippet thus diagnosed would contact buyers and have their puppies checked. Don’t forget that you can check the CERF website for listings of normal animals if there is ever a question. Only animals that have been issued a CERF number (have an exam with no inherited conditions) will be listed on the site.
As always, I commend those conscientious breeders and owners who have any health exams performed on their whippets - the more we know, the more we can protect our lovely breed from becoming rife with inherited diseases, as so many other breeds have become.
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