KC Schemes Flashcards
What does the KC do?
What does KC not do? – Who does this? Under what act?
When is this licensing needed?
Reg of dogs
Breed standards
Health promotion
Breeding guidance
Insurance
Promotes m’chipping
Activities and events
Info about training
Advice for people wanting to find a puppy.
Regulation of breeding of dogs – local authority does this under The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018.
Licensing needed when a person is operating a business where they are breeding dogs for sale, or when a breeder’s bitch or bitches are having having three or more litters in a 12 month period even without exchange of money.
What types of dogs are registered?
Do you have to register with KC?
What is not permitted if not registered?
In what circumstance can you not register a dog?
How many registrations are there per year?
Pedigree dogs are registered and they also keep a cross breed register.
Not obligatory to register.
Not permitted to show at KC shows if not registered.
Offspring cannot be registered unless both parents are registered with KC.
~250,000.
How much does it cost to register and what registration functions need to be recorded?
£15 to register.
-Kennel name
-Litter
-Changing names
-Importing and exporting
How many breeds currently registered with KC?
How many show classes recognised on the pedigree register and what are these?
221 breeds currently registered.
7 show classes:
-Agility
-Hounds
-Working
-Toy
-Utility
-Pastoral
-Terrier
How are functional disorders worsened in pedigree breeds?
Give some of these functional disorders.
They are heritable so worsened by inbreeding and poor breeding choices.
BOAS, skin problems, cardiomyopathies, canine leukocyte adhesion deficiencies (CLAD), dystocia, epilepsy, hip and elbow dysplasia, sloping back (GSD), syringomyelia (cavaliers), eye problems (entropion, lens luxation, glaucoma, progressive retinal atrophy)
What does the KC Assured Breeder Scheme do?
Promotes good practices.
Ensures members dedicated to canine health – pit it ahead of conformational characteristics doing well in shows at the time.
Ensures all necessary genetic and health testing carried out.
Assured Breeder Scheme – C sections and conformation altering surgeries.
Considerations for practitioner?
How is this helpful for KC?
How is this negative for client?
By signing up, consent to any/all vets that treat their dogs reporting any C sections/conformation altering surgeries carried out on a registered dog direct to the KC.
Recommended to make client aware that you will report and obtain their consent before the surgery.
Helps them build up data around how breeds altered for showing.
May affect dog’s showing career.
What is the Breed A to Z?
A list to try and direct anyone looking to choose a puppy.
Informs of breed characteristics.
Informs what tests the parents of the pup should have had prior to breeding.
How many DNA testing schemes are there?
What online health resources are available to breeders?
What does KC Academy provide?
~90.
Estimated breeding values, health test results finder, inbreeding calculator – works out from pedigrees of all dogs kept on KC register what inbreeding co-efficient will be for a particular mating.
Films on a variety of topics for breeders.
How are breeding guidelines distributed?
What other resources for breeders?
Through breed clubs.
Breeding advice, Understanding Canine Genetics Articles, Combi Breed DNA Tests, Nutrition Advice from Purina, Weaning Advice from Purina, In-Breeding Co-Efficient Calculators, Health/Screening Test Results Finder, EBV.
Health Partners and Collaborators?
Breed Health Coordinators and Mentoring schemes.
BVA/KC clinical screening schemes.
Brachycephalic Working Group.
CKCS Heart Scheme.
Large and Giant Breed Working Party.
Name the organisations part of the Brachycephalic Working Scheme.
KC, PDSA, Dogs Trust, RSPCA, RVC, University of Cambridge, BSAVA, BVA, DEFRA, Breed Clubs.
Name organisations in the CKCS Heart Scheme.
What does this scheme do?
KC, reps of CKCS Breed Clubs, Veterinary Cardiology Society.
They review and improve heart screening of cavaliers in the UK.
They ensure more robust collection and publication of data.
What organisations do the Large and Giant Working consist of?
What do they do?
KC and reps from 15 breed clubs.
Bring expertise of different stakeholders together to help tackle concerns shared by these breeds.
What is Breed Watch?
What do they do?
How is it beneficial to health and welfare?
An early warning system to identify points of concern for individual breeds.
They provide further information about specific health concerns to anyone involved in the world of dogs.
Allows judges, breeders and exhibitors to discourage breeding of dogs with exaggerated conformational issues.
How are KC involved with health research?
Who are the health team currently working with?
KC charitable trust donated >1.5M in grants over the last 3 yrs.
61% of this goes to science and research.
Currently working with BOAS group at Cambridge, GSD gait and movement study at Surrey, Vet Compass at RVC.
What are the addressed issues of the Canine Health Schemes?
What do the canine health schemes help to ensure?
Respiratory, hips, elbows, eyes, heart, Chiari Malformation (Syringomyelia).
Helps ensure info sign posting potential pup owners to health issues that are breed specific. (breed A to Z) And directs potential Os as to what testing their new pup/new pup’s parents should have/should have had.
When was the hip scheme launched?
What problem does it address?
How does the process of scoring work?
How many KC registered dogs evaluated per year?
What is the problem with this scheme?
1965
Hip dysplasia.
Evaluates radiographs of individual dogs’ hips. 2 experts evaluate each hip and score 9 anatomical feature. The score for each hip is out of 53, giving a final score out of 106. The lower the score the better the anatomy.
8,000.
Dogs with likely poor scores are not submitted.
Launch of the elbow scheme?
Problem the scheme addresses?
Process of scoring?
How many dogs scored per year?
1998.
Elbow dysplasia.
Each elbow evaluated by 2 experts from individual dogs’ radiographs. Scale 0-3. The lower the grade, the better the anatomy. If a dog has a different score for each elbow then the higher score is used as its final score.
~5,000 scored per year.
Eye scheme.
What breed club evaluates dogs for eye diseases and how many do they evaluate?
From what age does puppy testing start?
Specialist panellists appointed by BVA to examine any individual dog for clinical signs of eye diseases.
Some inherited diseases not present from birth do breeders are advised to get their breeding stock examined throughout the dogs’ lives.
International Sheeo Dog Society evaluates 12,000 KC registered dogs per year.
Starts from 6-12 weeks.
What is syringomyelia/Chiari malformation caused by?
What does it cause?
What does syringomyelia refer to?
What is the process of assessment?
A fault in skull development.
Causes part of the brain to protrude from an opening at the back of the skull.
Refers to the presence of 1 or more fluid-filled pockets that may develop in the spinal cord – called syrinxes.
A vet centre takes an MRI of the animal and sends this MRI to the BVA to be evaluated and graded by a panel of neurologists and radiologists. Once graded, results sent back to the vet to relate it to the owner and a copy sent to KC for recording and publication.
When was the respiratory function grading scheme launched?
How does the process of assessment work?
What is the advice for a dog <2yrs old with 0 score?
Dog<2yrs with score 1?
Advice for any dog with score 2?
2019.
Evaluation of bulldogs, French bulldogs and pugs for progressive breathing disorders. A specially trained assessor uses a stethoscope to listen a dog’s breathing while calm and relaxed and then assess again after 3 mins of quick paced exercise. The animal is graded 0-3 with 0 being unaffected and 3 being severely affected with severe signs and should be seen by a vet for exam and treatment, and advise not to breed from the dog.
Dog with 0 score <2 = annual checks with vet as disease progressive.
score 1 same as 0.
Monitor by vet and may require treatment.
For CKCS Heart Scheme, what is the scoring for heart murmur?
Scoring for mitral valve prolapse?
What system is used to grade risk and what is it the risk of?
What is the grading dependent on?
0, 1, 2, 3+
0, 1, 2, 3+
Traffic light system used to grade the risk of a dog developing mitral valve disease and risk of them passing this onto their offspring.
Dependent on the dog’s age at the time of testing.
What are the purposes of genetic testing?
For parentage/pedigree analysis
For coat colour variation – used by breeders.
For simple disease mutations.
