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News & Highlights
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Breeds
Breed of the Month
★ This Month's Breeds are the Smooth Collie and Rough Collie ★
Great work in breed education!!! The Collie Health Foundation has a YouTube Channel - check out their breed health seminar presentations - links available via DogWellNet.com's Pedigreed Breeds Database pages. See Smooth Collie & Rough Collie.
Agria Insurance statistics are available for these breeds!
• Collie, Rough
• Collie, Smooth
View the Swedish RAS English Summary
Check out the Smooth & Rough Collies!!!
New Breed Listings
Black Russian Terrier
The Black Russian Terrier, also known as the Chornyi Terrier is a breed of dog created in the USSR in the Red Star Kennel during the late 1940s and the early 1950s for use as military/working dogs. BRTs are calm, confident, self-assured, highly intelligent dogs that with proper training and socialization are loyal, reliable, robust working companions. This large and powerful dog is not in all likelihood an ideal fit for the first-time dog owner.
Read more about the Black Russian Terrier in this month's DogWellNet.com Spotlight below!
Updated Breed Listings
English Bulldog
News from the Club du Bulldog Anglais (France): Breed Survey 2019 - English & French versions are now available on DogWellNet.com. Many thanks to Hélène Denis for sharing these documents with our community!
Articles
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In Relationships between genetics, breeding practices and health in dogs - Grégoire Leroy (France), we present a
chapter from the Book: Standards, Health and Genetics in Dogs/Standards, Santé et Génétique chez le Chien. The selected chapter examines the specificities of dog breeding and selection in order to better understand how these practices impact breed health.
Blogs
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IPFD CEO Dr. Brenda Bonnett looks at the challenges of promoting the concept of "responsible dog ownership" in Owners' perception of 'responsible dog ownership'. This entry includes a link to an interesting article from our colleagues at Human Behaviour Change for Animals (HBC).
- In Confidentiality and Genetic Testing: more benefits and risks, Brenda considers the parallels between human and dog genetic testing, especially in terms of the challenges (and potential) arising from the market move to Direct-to-Consumer testing in both species.
- In her blog post, AKC-CHF SYMPOSIUM: Harmonization of Genetic Testing and Breed-Specific Resources, Brenda reflects on her recent experience as a speaker the 2019 AKC Canine Health Foundation National Parent Club Canine Health Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
- See a profile of the new Ask Aimee Blog in the Harmonization of Genetic Testing for Dogs section below.
IPFD Partners in Action
The Norwegian Kennel Club recently published a recap of the 4th International Dog Health Workshop (IDHW) in Windsor, UK. See the original article here (Norwegian) or view the article translated to English here: English translation via Google (PDF)
Harmonization of Genetic Testing for Dogs (HGTD)
HGTD In the News
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Harmonization of Genetic Testing for Dogs (HGTD) Project Director Aimee Llewellyn-Zaidi was interviewed for a story on at-home Dog DNA tests from ABC 10 (Sacramento, California) .
New Blog Feature: Ask Aimee
Our HGTD Project Director, Aimee Llewellyn-Zaidi, has launched a new blog - Ask Aimee - to provide answers to your questions on canine genetic testing. In her first entry, Aimee answers a question from a breeder wanting to know about prioritising a new genetic test.
If you’d like to submit a question to Aimee, please email her at aimee.llewellyn-zaidi@ipfdogs.com.
Get Involved in HGTD! We welcome additional participant GTPs, more collaborators from any stakeholders concerned with dog health and welfare, the advice of experts, the participation of breed clubs and other consumer groups. We stand ready to provide more information to ongoing discussions.
Please feel free to contact us as we work together for healthy dogs and to support those who breed and own them: IPFD CEO, Dr. Brenda Bonnett, at brenda.bonnett@ipfdogs.com and/or HGTD Project Director, Aimee Llewellyn-Zaidi, at aimee.llewellyn-zaidi@ipfdogs.com.
IPFD Breeds Database: A Vision of Collaboration Leads to Ongoing International Action
We have seen an increase in the number of breed Clubs and other 
organizations/individuals approaching us to contribute content for our Pedigreed Breeds Database. This is an excellent example of the collaboration we envisioned when we created DogWellNet.com!
Yvonne Sandberg-Åberg offered Breed Health Notes on the Russkiy Toy and provided key breed information which helped to 'fill in' DogWellNet.com's Russian Toy page.
We were recently contacted by Christine Robinson who provided breed information - specifically BRTCA's health related documents - on the Black Russian Terrier, which we incorporated into a new breed profile for the Black Russian Terrier in our Pedigreed Breeds Database.
Wendy Reeves, Secretary of the Irish Wolfhound Health Group, shared the IWHG's quarterly Newsletter (Summer 2019) with DogWellNet.com - the publication is packed with updates on IW health matters - for the latest and past IWHG Newsletters see DogWellNet.com's Irish Wolfhound page!
We find that breed clubs wanting/thinking about establishing databases or those that already have databases could benefit from the work done in other breeds. David Eikelberg (Black Russian Terriers), a member of the DogWellNet community, took the opportunity to look at what the Irish Wolfhound Database (IWDB) is doing with their breed database. He shared a comment. "I must say they are (in so far as I am familiar with these things) quite an outstanding benchmark in their efforts. I personally have seen none better. This includes not only their health testing, historical records collection efforts, and health research initiatives, but even the very content and usability of their web site/presence. Most of the rest of us would do well to emulate their efforts!" Even if breed clubs aren't ready to take on all that the Wolfhound group has done, they can get ideas of how to start, given their available resources. David concludes his remarks by thanking the IWDB Organization for their outstanding leadership. We are thrilled to be able to share the IWDB's work with a community of like-minded breed enthusiasts. Kudos go to 4th IDHW presenter, Per Arne Flatberg, along with the many international Irish Wolfhound fanciers for all their collaboration, dedication and work! Check out the IWDB via their poster and presentation at the 4th IDHW or directly, here.
Do you have breed resources to share with us?
We invite Breed Experts, Breed Clubs, Kennel Clubs, and other canine organizations to contribute content for existing and new breed profiles in our Pedigreed Breeds Database. If you have material (text, links, photos, or videos) to share, please contact us at info@ipfdogs.com.
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