Thread: HD - Not a common test-issue?

I haven't heard of many breeders over here that have had a problem with it in their cats or in their offspring (although many breeders would keep such things to themselves anyway)

I think if you do the research into the lines that your breeding cats have come from and there are no problems present then the testing seems unnecessary.

Having said that, we are looking at a testing program this year on all of our cats for HD, ultrasound scanning for HCM and also testing for SMA & PKD. This is because once we have brought in 2-3 new cats this year, we are hoping to then keep back from our lines only so if we test our foundation cats here then we should be safe with all of their offspring.