Darien

Karin, I can not find my info, but then again I have been busy, but the BCCNSW have now published carriers of CL. Here is the site. http://www.bccnsw.com/ Darien

I can guess the dog you are talking about. Where have you published the details? Also, if you are interested, or anyone else, I can give you the direct line of working BC's first introduced to Australisia. Darien

Will do Karin, I had no intention of posting names here Give me a couple of days as I need to find them, as it's over 10 years now! Darien

I thought long and hard before answering this, it's hard to recall sad and bitter memories, but I will make this as short as possible so as not to bore you all. In 1991 I lost my beloved Cassie to CL and let me assure you at the time, the BC Club of NSW was of no help to me at all and refused to name the TOP breeder of BC's of the time! As far as I am aware, Bill is correct, it is a disease that has mainly been found in Australian Show bred lines and some of these breeders are still breeding!!! If you are truly interested Karin, I can give the breed line that a lot of theses cases have been found in. With the help of the NSW University of Vet Science, I did a lot of research at the time and still have some of the papers. The BC Club have the rest All I cam say is, Thank God something positive is being done. I hope no one else ever goes through the torment my family and Cassie did. Darien

I'd love to see some pictures of Dakota's ears, some of them can be great My first border had beautiful ears and I'd love the way she'd cock her head to the side whenever I talked to her. My male had 'flat' ears, one other had 'flying nun' ears, now they were gorgeous. Kiska has quite small ears in comparison to her head, but she is perfect to me. Who cares what their ears look like, as long as they can hear you and do their job I remember when showing all the taping and garbage that went on, why they didn't appreceiate their dog for what they were always baffled me. Enjoy watching the changing motions, it's fun Darien