I brought a new male into the program and then washed him out because he introduced panosteitis into lines that were tried true and tested and had never had pano pups before .
what a shame . seriously . a loss , as this male and of course the dams produced stunningly handsome correct conformation and good temperament and workability , - "bomb proof".
two sons , Stevie and Quincy , in honor of (Wonder and Jones) , experienced a furnace explosion which blew the cover plate across the room and filled the room with black smoke. I was in the kitchen directly above the furnace/laundry room and felt the floor raise up .
I moved so fast I just about fell down the staircase -- expecting to find the worst . Opened the door - couldn't see anything for the "smoke" . Slid the sliding gate to walk into room and almost tripped. Here were these two young 4 or 5 month old black pups right there to greet me , tail wagging as if nothing happened.
got every thing settled with the pups - called furnace repair emergency service -- found out that there had been a tiny pinhole prick that allowed fuel to spray out and when there was enough accumulation and the furnace ignited so did the fuel in the box - bam
took three days to wash and power wash the hard surfaces, ceiling, floor and walls .
a few days later the pups could enjoy the room again as a hang out area during this very wet and cold spring .
I thought there would be hesitation - some bad memory . No . Nothing . Happy happy pups .
BUT by the time they were 6 or 7 months each one had bouts of severe pano . Willing - but incapable . Literally like limp dish rags. The curious thing is that each one would be identical as to the limb that was bothering them.
Put into adjoining pens it was like looking through a steroscope. Each one had right leg up -- days later each one had
left rear leg up . And so it went for months and months .
During the good times and the LE trainers would visit to see progress they were stars - just like their name sakes - super stars .
And then they would be flattened out again.
I saw this through till they were over a year of age . I removed them from consideration for a working dog because even though things looked good , they could be waylaid by the rigors of certification training and set bac a handler and a department and even then could be waylaid in the first months of being deployed .
While all this was going on - the sire was NOT bred .
The sire and the two sons were removed and sold .
NO pano -- before or since .
Cliff said -- Many illnesses,( like giarda, coat issues, mange, allergies, etc, ), are activated by stress! Stress is a definite by-product of weak nerves.
I am forgiving of weak nerves. Giardia and coccidiosis and lyme and heart worm are parasitic , not congenital and not genetic - but environment , habitat , in an ever increasingly hostile , and post anti biotic world .
Mange can be summoned by severe nutritional deficiency , over vaccination (and other things we pump into dogs) , being born to a sub par , deprived dam . Allergies - how many are true allergies - not as many as you would think -- not if you read the rigorous scientific papers and the cutting edge discoveries shared at microbiome conventions .
Food sensitivities -- promoted when there is disruption or damage to the intestines thanks to antibiotic use , parasites, vaccinations etc.