TESTING FOR LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES DISEASE
4 girls and 1 boy born on 4-26-2003
Casper severely injured his hip in a terrible fall at the Orange Empire Kennel Club dog show in late January 2002. He was 9 months old. He later injured it again in March, so I had an x-ray taken. Dr. David Judy opined that the shadow at the edge of his femoral head was Legg-Calve-Perthes disease ("L-C-P"). Others believed it was from his slip-and-fall injury. After treating Casper with Glucosamine for one month, I took him for a second opinion to Dr. Cherry Bednarck of Grossmont Animal Hospital. She looked at the x-ray and opined that the shadow could be either from L-C-P or the slip-and-fall injury. She recommended a biopsy of the femoral head to determine which caused the shaow. She cut out the bone that day and sent it to a lab in Arizona for cellular evaluation. They reported that the shadow could be caused by either the L-C-P or the injury. I was in the same place as before.
After consulting with veterinarians and breeders, I decided to do a test inbreeding of Casper to a daughter, which would theoretically produce one or more puppies with L-C-P, if he had it. That is because breeding an affected dog (with two affected genes) to a carrier (a daughter would have one affected gene from the father) would produce 50% affected pups, if the disease is straight autosomal recessive. So, in February 2003, I bred Casper to Brandy. On April 26, 2003, Brandy had 5 beautiful pups: 4 girls and 1 boy. In late April 2004, I had their hips x-rayed and sent them to OFA for hip and L-C-P evaluation. They all passed their preliminary hip evaluations and their Legg-Calve-Perthes evaluations. I can now rest assured that Casper NEVER had Legg-Calve-Perthes. His hip injury was the result of the slip and fall he suffered in January 2002. Their OFA results are shown below, along with pictures of the pups:
BLOSSOM VALLEY DINAH SHORE (UKC No. P376496)
OFA HIPS (preliminary) = GOOD
OFA LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES (JT-LP13/12F-PI) = NORMAL
OFA BAER HEARING TEST (JT-BR28/2F-PI) = NORMAL
Dinah is now called
Lily and is owned
by Rebecca
Martinez.
BLOSSOM VALLEY DELTA BURKE (UKC No. P376497)
OFA HIPS (preliminary) = GOOD
OFA LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES (JT-LP12/12F-PI) = NORMAL
OFA BAER HEARING TEST (JT-BR27/2F-PI) = NORMAL
Delta is now
called Daisy. She
is owned by the
Raines family: Greg,
Jill, and Jessica.
BLOSSOM VALLEY DONNA REED (UKC No. P376498)
OFA HIPS (preliminary) = GOOD
OFA LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES (JT-LP14/12F-PI) = NORMAL
OFA BAER HEARING TEST (JT-BR29/2F-PI) = NORMAL
Donna is owned
by my cousin,
Marcie Kramer,
who needs to find
her a new home
(contact me).
BLOSSOM VALLEY DAPHNE FROST (UKC No. P376499)
OFA HIPS (preliminary) = EXCELLENT
OFA LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES (JT-LP15/12F-PI) = NORMAL
OFA BAER HEARING TEST (JT-BR30/2F-PI) = NORMAL
Daphne lives with
Terry and Val Frost
and her best buddy,
Rocky -- another
Jack Russell
Terrier.
BLOSSOM VALLEY DUSTY RYDER (UKC No. P376500)
OFA HIPS (preliminary) = GOOD
OFA LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES (JT-LP16/12F-PI) = NORMAL
OFA BAER HEARING TEST (JT-BR31/2F-PI) = NORMAL
Dusty is owned
by Eddie Johnson
who loves him dearly.
(I forgot to get
separate photos of
him on the day of
that we had the
party. These are
Dusty at 3 months.)
