|
I have always said if I were ever going to get a genetic disaster small breed dog it would 100% be a Cavalier because they are the sweetest little dogs ever. I don't know that I would do a rescue Cavy though, sad to say I'd rather have a dog whose diseases in the lineage are known (the devil you know, etc...). Most of them will get mitral valve disease at some point, it's just a matter of when - it's not so bad if they start to have a murmur at age, say, 8-9 or so, but the ones who have a murmur at 4-5, well... And you may just be making the specialist rounds too - just about every Cavalier has a touch of caudal occipital malformation and some of them end up developing chronic pain or neurological problems from syringohydromyelia (buildup of CSF in the spinal cord). There is a surgery that can be done if it's done before signs are too significant but generally once a syrinx forms that level of damage is irreversible. Sekhmet fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Nov 19, 2015 |
#
¿
Nov 19, 2015 15:45
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 2, 2024 21:51 |
|