Can You Breed a Dog With an Umbilical Hernia

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To all the breeders out there, I was wondering if you have e'er bred from your bitch who had a hernia?
A thread from yesterday made me see how many pups there were with them and I wondered why.

Alfie has one and his mother did, I didn't know about it when i got him, the vet told me, and i was pretty annoyed tbh, then when i questioned the breeder she said that his mother had one. The kennel guild couldn't believe a bowwow was being bred from with one every bit it could rupture with a pregnancy plus requite information technology to the pups. This was her third litter too.
All advice I see on them is to get the dog stock-still and then they cannot breed from them but then there are KC breeders passing it on.
Also every bit it is hereditary it passes information technology on to others in the line too, I noticed that alfie'due south relative on the thread also has ane and they are from separate mothers.

So I wondered accept you always bred from i or would you if the bitch was a prime number example of the breed but had ane?
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Ideally id say no you would non breed from a bowwow with an umbilical hernia,specially if it was large.
But i guess youd have to expect at the bigger picture and take health clearances/temperament and conformation in to consideration.
Some umbilicals are true hernias and some are delayed closures,youd need to know exactly which kind your bowwow had.
http://www.showdogsupersite.com/kenlclub/breedvet/umbilical.html
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they can be acquired only by the bitch being too rough rather than whatever hereditary cause - so would depend on the cause. I would probably avoid buying a pup with one though and information technology is one of the first things I would bank check.
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Yeah but a lot are passed on, I'yard likewise seeing a lot that are beingness bred from dogs with hernias and so passing them to the next generations.
Believe me I wouldn't cull ane if i had a selection, i'd never experienced 1 before but the breeder had pushed it back in anyhow and then it wasn't noticable anyway.
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I got Leo at a lower cost from his breeder as he has a hernia. My vets were non concerned past information technology merely said when he was castrated they could operate on it.
Nine years after he nonetheless has his hernia - and all his dangley bits are all in place besides! He has been the healthiest dog I accept ever owned with rarely a day's illness.
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One of my dogs has simply had his umbilical hernia removed. For half-dozen.5 years information technology gave him no bother merely and so it started to become ulcerated. It had airtight behind the hernia just the lump became necrotic so had to exist removed.
I did a bit of research and found out that many hernias are hereditary and then, based on that fact, and having owned a domestic dog with an umbilical hernia, I would say no, i'd never breed a dog that had one. I dont think i'd be put of buying one again though.
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When sasha had her hips xrayed three weeks ago information technology was discovered that she has an umbillical hernia. Her hips are amazing equally I'd expected merely I'yard not prepared to accept the take chances. Her breeder told me simply to go alee and breed from her which I don't consider prophylactic. She volition be spayed at the end of November and hernia repaired at the aforementioned time.
We have no way of knowing if hers is hereditary or adventitious, never got any straight answers.
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thankfully i've never had or bred a dog with i.
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Santana has an umbilical hernia and i would not breed from her as there is ever the chance that its a true hernia and could exist passed on. Out of the two litters her mother has had she is the merely one who has a hernia
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This is my point! Give thanks you for highlighting what happened with you lot.
If yous had a bowwow with one during a pregnancy it could ever become ulcerated with the pressure that pregnancy puts on the body. Sometimes having a very bad end upshot.

It besides endangers the puppies of the litter who end up with one too. This was also the stance of the kennel club.
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Plough away if you are nice, but hither is Jed's nasty hernia:
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Oh my god!
Poor babe! Run into this i the affair to knowingly betrayal your bitch and their puppies to this happening (or worse I accept seen!) is really a no become to me!

But why practise we keep seeing pups born with hereditary hernias?!
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Hi Emmaviolet
No, I would not breed a domestic dog with a hernia. The dogs I desire to breed (I accept so far had three litters) shall be healthy (and even the i tin can experience puppies with problems). I would non breed a dog that take feet-bug either. A creature that should exist bred shall be healthy both mental and physical (healthwise)

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Elisabeth
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I wouldn't, I had a puppy born with an umbilical hernia and I endorsed her full-blooded, fabricated sure the new owners had no plans to brood from her and had them sign a contract to confirm this!