Thread: What health-test do you do?

Originally Posted by NCarver

I knew about PawPeds pedigree DB but not the health programs. Your info is very complete and impressive! It is really a problem in the US to have cats tested by a cardiologist vet specialist. There just are not that many of them. We now have one in St Louis, the nearest big city (2 hours away), but prior to that the nearest was 4+ hours away. Some areas do not have any even that close.

Very interested to hear about your hetero female. I started another thread asking if anyone else had any DNA positive cats. We have one female hetero who will be 5 this year and was echoed last year for the first time (negative). Plan is to have her redone every couple of years. The breeder has a hetero male that I think was around 8 last year (we took our girl at the same time). His heart did show some HCM changes. We went through HCM with a MC mix stray that we took in 6 years ago, so know about it very well.

Pawpeds is much more then just a pedigree db
Today it's also a education-center to minimize people going into breeding without enough knowledge and also for ordinary pet owners that want to be more educated.

In the menu you have The PawAcademy and there are Internet Courses and a lot of Articles to read or you can choose Health Programs and read about different health programs for all kind of breeds. Or you can choose Breed Specific and learn more about your breed and the history

Maya's fifth birthday was in august and she was OK on ultrasound in December (Maya is the one on my avatar btw)

It's really hard when there are no cardiologist with adequate education avalible, i can se on the list for the health program that there is only two veterinarians in UK accepted by the health program:
PawPeds
But at least it's two, in Sweden we are really spoiled we have accepted veterinarians on twelve locations.

I have also meet HCM in close up, not in my own cats but in one of my friends cats,
he died from HCM just a few month after being cleared by one of our best veterinarians in this subject a man who's doing research in HCM so there is no question about a bad screening. We have learned that in unusual cases a cat can develope HCM in a short period of time probably caused by virus. This is also very interesting.

Yes if someone wonders i am really interested in this