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The 'Fully health tested' fraud

1/3/2021

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What an awful 9 months it has been for dog breeders. You ask, "What do you mean Jane? Have you not seen the prices they are asking for puppies?" Ah, you misunderstand the context I am using 'awful ' in. Covid 19 has shown that for the best part that dog breeders are a bunch of profiteering charlatans. I feel ashamed to be a dog breeder. 
The price hiking is one thing, but also the outright fraud they use to sell their pups. The biggest I continually see is 'Fully health tested Cavalier litter' 'Fully' is a precise word to use a bit like 'Never', both words when used are more often than not an over statement. Fully means completely or entirely; to the fullest extent. I click on the advert in hope, but I'm soon disappointed to see as most often happens, all they have done is run a load of DNA tests, which only a handful are relevant to the Cavalier. I have written about DNA tests before The fallacy of health tests in the Cavalier. Some say the parents are heart checked and very rarely, one of the parents might have had a MRI scan. I think over the years, I have only seen one litter advertised where both parents had been MRI scanned. 
So what would a 'Fully health tested litter' look like if advertised. Well, it would have to start with the most important health check and the most likely thing for a Cavalier to suffer from and die from screening for Mitral Heart Disease MVD, both parents should have been doppler heart scanned using the KC Heart Scheme. The second most common disease for Cavaliers to suffer Chiari-like Malformation/Syringomyelia CM/SM, parents should have been MRI scanned and graded for CM/SM, then eye examined, hip scored, elbow scored using the BVA Canine Health Schemes. Rounding off with grading of the parents patellas (kneecaps). They might then be able to use the heading 'Fully health tested.' I have never seen a litter of Cavaliers yet with parents having all those tests.
​So when you see an advert saying "Fully health tested' and if the parents have not had all the health checks I have mentioned above, it's blatant fraud, because it is an intentional deception to secure an unfair gain. You pay a premium price because you believe you are buying puppies from fully health checked parents. I would think if you buy a Cavalier puppy from an advert stating 'Fully health tested' and the puppy gets one of the conditions above and you can prove the parents were not screened for it. You could possible have a legal case against them. With the money people are parting with to buy Cavaliers now, we may see such  legal challenges in the future. I for one would welcome it.
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Helen
1/3/2021 06:25:31 am

I completely agree. I would love to email all these people and report the ones that are using 'fully health tested' when they are not but I just don't have the time or energy. It annoys me so much though.

I have reported one post on Pets4Homes which was advertising a dog with recently cropped ears and managed to have that taken down, so they can be responsive, if anyone else has the time to take the case up.

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Jane
1/3/2021 07:23:02 am

If I see an advert that is obviously a scam, I report them and they take the advert down. It is time consuming to police such things, when they should be policed by those allowing the publication of such adverts. There are so many of them. I have seen and reported adverts on all the websites advertising pets and found adverts have pasted and copied stuff from my website, one had my prefix in it which has a copyright on it and I have found adverts using photos from my website purporting that it is a photo of the Mum or the pups.

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Sally & Russell
1/3/2021 11:27:53 am

We feel very lucky to have found you Jane. It seems very hard to find breeders like you that have the dogs interests at heart.

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