Elisa Hedman
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Reporting and sharing health data
Data that stays in your own notebook cannot help the breed. How to report health results to registers, breed clubs and researchers, including the uncomfortable ones.
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Evaluating the dam and sire over time
Judging breeding animals as producers rather than individuals, and being honest about how much a given number of offspring can actually support.
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Evaluating the combination
Assessing what a mating gave that neither parent gives with other partners, and how to treat a repeat or sister combination as a test rather than a reward.
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Puppies and swallowed objects: choking, blockages, bag suffocation and poisoning by age
Puppies explore with their mouths, and dogs under a year old are the group most often treated for swallowed objects. Here is what they swallow, how to puppy-proof by age, and the signs that mean go now.
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Fertility in the offspring: what the evidence shows
A sourced review of what is known about reproduction and fertility in the offspring generation, and why one breeder’s litters are rarely enough to draw conclusions from.
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Tracking conformation and working results
Show critiques, breed descriptions and working results are the most formal evidence a breeder gets, and the most selectively sampled. How to read several offspring together without letting the sample mislead you.
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Collecting health and longevity data
Which data to record on your own offspring, in what form, and how to ask about diagnoses and death without intruding. Also: the three biases built into every breeder-collected dataset.
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