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The following diseases and defects were reported by Shiloh Shepherd owners and included in our last breed-wide health survey, but this doesn't necessarily mean that they are the only diseases that our dogs could carry.
If your dog has a disease or defect that's not listed we also need to know about it, please fill out our Survey and give us that information also. We're in the process of adding pages to this site where you'll be able to get information about all the diseases and defects listed on the table below. Eventually you'll be able to click on the defect name to see a definition of the disease as well as additional links to other websites containing more information.
Some definitions to help you understand what this table is showing...Age of Onset - The dog's age at the time the disease is noticed.Mode of Inheritance - The method by which a trait is inherited.
Defect Frequency - The number of dogs reported in the last health survey that were reported to have each of the listed defects or diseases.Guesstimated Carrier Frequency - A "guesstimate" of the percentage of dogs that are carriers of a given defect or disease. (Please keep in mind though, that no matter how hard we try to get ALL Shiloh owners to submit data on their dogs, it's still difficult to get people who have HEALTHY dogs to fill in the survey on a regular basis. The folks with affected dogs are most often the ones that submit data, those with healthy dogs don't bother because their dogs are healthy... So the carrier frequency percentages listed above are often much higher than what the affected population really is.)
To learn more about
the methodology used on our health survey, as well as
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e-mail dpknatz@optonline.net All rights reserved. Revised: January 2008 The information on this website was written by ISSR breeders and other concerned individuals, however we are are NOT veterinarians. This information is being provided as a general overview, from information we were able to find about each disease through our own research. These summaries are not intended to be relied upon as medical or veterinary advice, nor do we consider ourselves experts in the veterinary field or in any of these conditions. While we do our best to provide the most up to date information, new research is constantly being done on these diseases. We recommend that you do further study and talk to your veterinarian on any topics you see here, as we cannot guarantee that the information posted here is the most current information available. |
