For the love of the breed!
This page is for those Griffons who have been MRI’d for CM/SM. The meaning is to promote those dogs and their breeders.
Since 2006 we became aware that CM/SM is not only present in the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and other breeds but also in our Griffons, since that time, world wide, only a few dogs have been MRI’d. We have the Cavalier King Charles as a good example how things can go wrong in a breed when breeders are not reacting on time when a genetic defect is discovered.
In general the price of an MRI scan is high but we all know that traveling and showing is very expensive too and no show makes a dog or breed more healthy. No title says something about the genetic health of your dogs and the offspring of your well titled dogs are also not better or worse according the amount of titles your dog has. To our opinion money is better spent in testing you’re breeding stock in the first place!
Hopefully there will be a day when we visit web sites of Griffon Breeders that we do not find only brag about show results but also brag about test results !!
If you would like to have your MRI’d dog, or puppies born from two MRI’d parents, on this page then please go Here and submit your dog to the database.(see the sidebar!!) If you need help just send an email to: health@griffonplaza.com. Do not forget to send in a copy of your test result and a picture of your dog too!
