Kris

You can use our online formular! Mh, I think it´s time to say that I like the Collies downunder very much! Well, about the Akita - up to now I only know that it will be breeds akin to the Collie which maybe affected: Collie, Sheltie, Aussie, Border Collie, Bobtail, White Shepherd (up to now I never heard about a German Shepherd to be affected), Silken Windhound and some other mostly unknown breeds like the German Wäller or the American McNab. I can´t imagine the Akita to be akin with the Collie. So there might be a similar mutation or another drug sensitivity? And did you see that we have linked busteralert.og? From this side I took the idea to make tag for my dog. Kind regards, Kris Edit: Believe it or not - I just had a look at Australian Collie kennels which are listed at dogzonline and stopped at a side where I saw a tricolour Collie very much to my liking. I looked at the pictures, I looked at the pedigrees - and than I looked at the kennel name - Boldfolk! And there really has been a Nauglamir kennel in Australia? Wow...

That are good news. We all should join together to help to get rid of this gene defect. Lucky dogs. And I confess, I´m jealous because mine is affected and I lost his predecessor due to a wrong drug... But don´t you wan´t to show them on our homepage? *g* We have the same ideas... Well, there is a long list with drug suspected to be dangerous. As one scientist over here in Germany said: For a vet dealing with an affected dog sometimes means to play Rusian roulette. Or, more clearly: There is a great field trial and every affected dogs takes part! Akitas, too? That´s new for me! Do you have any source? Thank you! I just bookmarked it! Kind regards, Kris www.mdr1-defekt.de

Hello from Germany again! Well, we had several updates in the meantime and just welcomed our 500. dog last week! But it still could be more! And there are news about the labs - as we were told, Gribbles Pathology is the only lab licensed to do the test in Australia. Kind regards, Kris www.mdr1-defekt.de

Hello Erny! Thank you for your welcome! Unfortunately the sides by the University of Gießen are still only in German. So for more informations about the defect you better use the sides of the University of Washington: http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-VCPL/#Drugs To find a list showing the dangerous drugs please use this link: http://www.busteralert.org/ And because of our german homepage - just scroll down the first page, there you can select a language and will find our mainpages being translated into English and some more languages. We still work nearly every day on our sides. So it was just yesterday when we get th o.k. for publishing an article written by Pat Hutchinson and being published in the International Collie Society Handbook 2004: http://www.mdr1-defekt.de/texte.php?lang=EN&ID=011 On this side you will find links to test laboratories: http://www.mdr1-defekt.de/texte.php?lang=EN&ID=008 Well, I´m sure, the next update will be within the next days. Greetings from Germany, Kris

Hello from Germany! While searching the net for news about the MDR1-defect I found this forum and was glad to see that this dangerous gene defect is already known. But perhaps here are some new informations. Here in Germany research is going on at the University of Gießen and there have been lectures by the project group. As an owner of a Collie affected by the defect - and having lost another Collie due to a wrong drug - I went to such lectures and informed myself. I had to learn, that Ivermectin is only the tip of the iceberg and that there perhaps is no safe drug for my dog if he gets ill. I also learned that to few people know about this. So, please test your dogs and inform your vets. Then, together with two other women I started to inform people. We created www.mdr1-defekt.de as an information platform to help respectable breeders to consider, among other health aspects, also the “MDR1 defect” as a breeding criterion for amateur breeding. On this sides we provide important informations and show tested dogs - to encourage others to test and to help breeders searching for the right breeding dog. Our hope ist that in the near future no more dogs affected by the defect will be born. This is a great aim for all breeders! We just started last summer not thinking about becoming international. But we became. Up to now we have dogs not only from Germany but also from the Netherlands, Russia or the USA. And now we hope for more Australian Dogs! So again - test your dogs, inform your vets and send us the dates! Thank you for your kind attention! Kris, Germany www.mdr1-defekt.de