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Originally Posted by frontierrots  PLEASE consider submitting blood, pedigrees and cardiac reports to the Dr Meurs study. If you don't currently have that info or cannot find that post here with the info just ask and I'll re post it! |
Hi FronteirRotts -
I don't have specific information about the Dr. Meurs study, and the only info I could find at the Rottweiler Health Foundation site discusses a grant for a study that has already been completed.
When I talked to the breeder last week, she said that she was going to discuss with my vet how we get her patched into the right folks at the Rottweiler Health Foundation. I don't think breeder and vet have actually connected with a phone call but once they do I expect breeder and I will have a better idea about where we go next. Any info you may have about what we should be doing with the RHF would be greatly appreciated.
We might not have exactly the right data to fit into a study as our vet is not a cardiologist. However, before she did the sonograms she spoke directly with Dr. Larry Tilley who is apparently the big canine cardiology textbook author and heart specialist to get some guidance as to how to best perform the sonograms and what she should look for. If the fact that she is a general practitioner, or the particular limits of her equipment prevent us from being formal data points in a study, we are hoping that the breeder can make proper connections so that we at least become a part of the information pool.
Oh! I just did a web search and see that you are the Darla Fund person! Yes, by all means please provide us with RHF contacts if you have them. And thank you for posting Darla's story at RHF. Your story there and your posts about her here were important to us as we made the choice to bring these two puppies into our home.
I don't know how these puppies are going to fit into current research studies as our budget is dictating that we rely on our vet's free sonogram offer instead of going 90 miles to the quite expensive university clinic's cardiology department. But our vet is pretty special, and has an amazing drive to learn and learn and keep learning. The only thing you could say bad against her is that if your farm animal has an emergency on a Sunday, it might be a couple of hours before she calls you back because she's in meetings out of town squeezing more continuing education into her non-clinc day. I'm thinking that she's the sort of person who will want to at least discuss these puppies with others who are focusing on Rottweiler cardiology study.
Lynda