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AFGHANS ARE US -HEALTH
DID YOU KNOW? DO YOU CARE?
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Did you know your Afghan Hound
could be hypothyroid but could still look a picture of health? I didn’t!
Did you know that Hypothyroidism can cause bad false pregnancies? I
didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause cancers to develop if a dog has a
predisposition for them? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause some dogs to have unexplained bouts of
diarrhoea at times? I didn’t!
Did you know that AI HT can cause dwarfism or congenital
abnormalities or litter absorption or miscarriages? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause some dogs to have the same symptoms as
allergies? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause abnormal heat cycles, delayed seasons,
blind seasons? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause pyometra? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause your dog, either sex, to become
sterile or have low sperm count? I didn’t!
Did you know Immune Mediated HT can be passed down the lines, it is a
familial disease? I didn’t!
Did you know that if a dog is HT and develops heart problems such as
DC the symptoms can be reversed if on soloxine in time? I didn’t!
Did you know the testing for HT is easily done and by doing it and
getting them on the right medication you could give your dog a much happier
outcome? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT mimics many, many
other diseases? I didn’t!
Did you know that your dog could be middle aged before even the
slightest first symptom showed, by then the thyroid is well on the way to be
destroyed? I didn’t!
Did you know that HT can cause lifelong intermittent ear problems? I
didn’t!
Did you know that HT dogs do not have to be fat and lethargic to be
HT? I didn’t
Did you know that you cannot diagnose HT (or the lack of it) just by
looking at a dog? I didn’t!
Did you know that by breeding from these dogs or bitches we are
causing more heartache for people, and mostly for the dogs themselves for
generations to come?
Because I did not know or test the mother of my last two litters my dogs
had many of the above problems
Neither did I know about the many others symptoms it can cause, or
how a dog can appear to have none of these symptoms yet but still be HT. It
may well have been diagnosed as having died of other causes, but it could
have been the thyroid that may have been at the bottom of it, and by testing
and correct medication more problems may have been avoided.
Did you know that by testing the stud dog and brood bitch before
having a litter all the above may well be avoided? and did you know this may
well be a much wider spread problem than anyone is prepared to admit in
public, as Sylvia and others have been trying to tell everyone without much
success for the last 12 years. I suggest everyone takes a look at these two
websites by Jean Dodds. as Sylvia has stated many times Jean is the No.1
person in this field in the world. Read it right to the end if you say you
love this breed of ours please, as this doesn’t affect just other breeds but
the Afghan Hound too.Hazel Cranham
http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/ImmuneSystem.htm#Thyroid
http://www.inkabijou.co.uk/dodds
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