Thread: HCM gene testing- are we wasting our time?

Hi Catlover,what grade murmur has Sylvie got,my daughters MC had one picked up at a pretty early age,it stayed at grade 1 for several years & has now gone to grade two,she is 11.5ysr old,full of life & in no need of medication yet,I know there are lots of causes of heart murmurs in cats,some cardiac,some non cardiac but at the momen it seems as if it is a MC then it must be HCM related.As a matter of interest{all my cats are pet neuters} I swabbed three of them,all came from different breeders & they all came back as negatives,the eldest one is 13.5yrs & she is the mother of the above cat.
It is going to be very interesting to see over the next few years what the outcome of this is,especially if another gene is isolated....