Thread: HD - Not a common test-issue?

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

It looks to me as if above are lots of reasons not to become a breeder ..! We will just continue to buy our babies from all of you who take a lot of care & pride in your breeding lines. I knew about HCM but not the hips.
Strangely though I have one boy who does have problems with his hips but he goes regular to see one of our vets who is a chiropractor & a couple of clicks later & like this time because they were really fixed a follow up appointment & then he is on his way again.
Will think about an xray at some point though now just as a matter of interest.
Thanks for posting the two different ones its great to be able to compare,not sad at all,I would say interesting.

Well i know that some think this is a MC issue but it's really about all cats both cats and all kinds of breeds are affected but some more then others. I know that Susan Little had made a studie where it had been discovered that Devon Rex actually was one of the most affected breeds.

Studies done in the United States show some breed predispositions:
o Devon Rex (about 40% affected)
o Persian/Himalayan (about 20% affected)
o Maine Coon (about 23%)
o Non-pedigreed cats (about 5.8% affected)
http://catvet.homestead.com/inherited_diseases_2004.pdf

I just realize also the Health Program now have 2416 Hipresults in the database
And it becomes more and more common so I'm very pleased it makes it sooo much easier for me to find new interesting breeders for my breedingprogram

Im very interested in this subject one of our dogs has HD but that isnt to bad its the damage he has done to his back & other legs compensating for his hip that is the problem. Both his parents were hip scored & none of his litter mates have it. We think possible life style even though we were careful not to over excersise him, let him go up & down stairs or jump in & out of the car etc. Just our luck

I do worry about Louie with the speed he is growing & we have tryed not to let him leap around to much but it is very hard with a kitten, I did opt not to get a floor to ceiling cat tree though. I think the RC food is very good with it haveing glucosomine & chondroitin for healthy joints & other ingrediants for healthy heart but I think the more breeding cats that are screened for health problems the better. Louie is haveing this food already as well as his kitten food & anyother food he can get his paws on I also feed it to our eldest who has arthritus & was unable to jump up to where we have the food, even with a step system we sorted for him, he has been on it for 3 weeks now & is much better & rushing around like a kitten again so I think it does work & much better than metacam.

http://www.royalcanin.co.uk/PDF/maine_coon_pdf.pdf