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BREED HEALTH

The Australian Cobberdog has had the advantage of a core group of foundation breeders who have had as their primary focus the health and temperament of the dogs whilst striving toward their long-term vision for the breed.


With our 21st Century advanced science and systems in communication and transportation this breed in development has had many advantages over the foundation breeders of past years who developed current recognised breeds.


The founders of this breed made many hard decisions to ensure the health, predictability of temperament, characteristics and management requirements of their breed have been optimised. They terminated bloodlines and discarded expensively purchased breeding stock if they were shown to produce unsound progeny.

 

They have been able to eliminate and avoid many potential problems in the dogs they produce to limit the risks of the health of the dogs and the breed being compromised either now or into the future. Any dog which is not registered in the MDBA Stud Registry must go through the approval process for inclusion into the gene pool from the 1st of January 2016. Breeders should not presume that any dog that is not already in the Australian Cobberdog gene pool will be automatically accepted as eligible for infusion.

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The MDBA has an open stud book and to ensure that our registry is transparent and protects the integrity and health of this breed we have introduced mandatory and recommended registration requirements. These requirements were developed in association with the Australian Cobberdog parent club.


Any MDBA member who wishes to add to the stud registry a dog of unknown parentage, or a dog of another breed will be required to submit an application for approval and explain what they think this dog will add to the gene pool. Further details see below. This application will require approval from the MDBA Board and the board may request further photographs and information to determine the merit of the application.


All dogs to be used in the gene pool must be registered in the MDBA Foundation Registry prior to the mating.

 

Recommended Health screening for this breed.
 

At least one parent should be cleared by DNA testing or by parentage for the following disorders:
• PRAprcd (Mandatory from June 2018)
• Degenerative Myelopathy (Mandatory from June 2018)
• Exercise Induced Collapse (Mandatory from June 2018)
• Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia & Coloboma (Wheaten Terrier Type) ( Mandatory from January 2022)

 

Highly Recommended

 

Hip and Elbow X ray,
Heart and Eyes Cleared.

 

Recommended

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  • Copper Toxicosis

  • Merle trait

  • Shedding trait

  • Curly coat trait

  • Long haired trait

  • Improper Coat Trait

 

 

Courtesy of  Official Home of the Australian Cobberdog. 

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