Recent content by Sage024

Hello! Yes, I made another post with the results, if you would like to check it out and see the results paperwork as well you can find it here: Kanda’s Holter Results + one red flag? TLDR: Although Kanda's initial echo showed that his heart is on the upper normal end of the charts for size and...

Yes I’ll definitely be letting his vet know about it so they have it on file. Definitely don’t want to add any risk factors

Hey all! Many of you kept up with Kanda’s dilemma of getting a Holter monitor reading. I just got the official write up and wanted to share it, and although he doesn’t have signs of DCM there is one thing she flagged that has me worried and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this. See...

I was going to make a post about this! Glad I found yours. I’m wondering what precautions you guys are taking? My vet didn’t seem concerned but then other vets online do. Getting mixed info. Kanda and I live right in the middle of the inner city in Atlanta so it’s tough to avoid doggy spaces...

Another update, 3rd attempt was a charm! Did the full chest wrap and it recorded 24hrs and 40 minutes. I don’t have the full write up yet, I will post later for anyone who wants to compare. But since the cardiologist is about to be out of office for thanksgiving she emailed me to let me know...

That’s good to know, I was wondering if any abnormal beats were cause for concern but I feel like she would have said so in the email. So if 50 and under is normal and he only had 3, then that sounds really good! And yes I may in the future do that…we are moving from Atlanta to Raleigh at the...

we just heard back this morning! It recorded 24 hours and 40 minutes (woo!) and he only had 3 abnormal heartbeats in that entire period, so based on that, no concern of DCM! She’s on PTO all next week until after thanksgiving so she hasn’t written up the report but based on the initial results...

I thought the same thing. My friend and neighbor has a Great Dane, they know their lifespan is only like 8 years. In my head I thought, why would you put yourself through that. But dobermans aren’t far off from that. Yes they all die of something, every breed has their issue, but when they use...

On paper it sounds like a great solution but in practice idk how complicated it is or how far along that technology is. Wouldn’t that be amazing though to just edit that right out of them. Just remove the possibility of them every developing it

This is another thought I had but didn’t want to get too out there in one post haha. I’ve heard of crispr research for using gene therapy to cure disease in humans but I’m sure it’s still all very hypothetical and experimental. I’m not sure how it works in other mammals but maybe it could be...

At what point do official organizations like that step in to save a breed? If it’s been done before with others then surely it can be done with Dobermans. I just wonder at what point do they step in to make the dramatic changes needed.

It seems so complicated and I’m sure it is. Seems almost like it would have to be a full on multi step approach. An effort from the whole community. Speak with the AKC to see where they stand on the issue, what it would take to get exceptions to breed crosses into the purebred list. Work with...

I’ve heard of this one through Rubydoo and Bruce’s owner! Need to look deeper into this one

As I wait to take Kanda back for his third Holter (first two failed to record, ugh. Third time is a charm I hope) I have fallen down the rabbit hole of trying to understand how the breed got to a place where there’s so little genetic diversity, such high inbreeding and such a high risk of DCM...

He has no symptoms so far of a heart condition. No cough, no lethargy, no exercise intolerance, no fluid build up and no episodes of passing out. He had his first echo recently and it did show his heart size on the upper-normal end and the function on the lower-normal end. So we want the Holter...