THE HEALTH OF CAUCASIAN OVCHARKA.


CAUCASIAN OVCHARKA is a very healthy breed that noone has managed to destroy yet. The breed is build so perfect, as almost no Caucasian Ovcharka get any pain even if they have been radiated C,D or even E of dysplasia either on the hips or on the elbows.

What is important to remember, is that Norway is one of the most strict countries in the world regarding having a free diagnosis on the hips and the elbows. Some of my C.O. were guarding 100 cows last summer on a very big place, 300000 square meters. They were running a lot inside the fence to protect the cows, and they never had any pain, neither in the hips nor in the elbows.
One of the LGD that was working with protecting the cows on this big area, Natasha, has been radiated free on her hips, A, and has D on her elbows. The other one, Goliat was radiated C on his hips and D on his elbows. An other one, Vala has been radiated C on her hips and has not been radiated on her elbows, and an other one, Marve, hasn't been radiated yet. The last one, Grom-Grom has also not been radiated yet. So dysplasia on their hips and elbows usually don't make them any pain. But if a C.O. get pain that seems to come from the hips or from the elbows, we have to remember that a dog has more than hips and elbows.
Dysplasia comes when the hips or the elbows haven't developped perfectly. And which degree they get, depends of how bad the hips or elbows have developped. Dysplasia is not counted as a disease if the dog is clinical healthy. It becomes as a disease only if the dog get pain because of the dysplasia. Dysplasia is genecital, but it is only 20-50 % hereditary, that's what the experts says. The rest 50-80 % depends of the feeding and the environmental when the pup is growing. Natural feeding from animal products is the best food to make the pup grow perfectly. Correct vitamins is of course also very important.

As on every other big breeds, some of them may get enostose. That is pain in the dog's legs that some of them get when they are growing. This will usually dissapear when they have finished their growing. We usually call it growing pain.

On most breeds there will come eye disease now and then, Luckily we almost have no eye disease on Caucasian Ovcharka.

Different types of Chataract may appear, and also Micriftalmus. But these eye diseases are vey rare on this breed. Chataract may make the dog blind or at least that the dog loose 50% of the sight.

In some bloodlines there are heart trouble, but it's not common. If a breeder get heart trouble in his og her bloodlines, it's very important to breed the dogs with heart trouble with dogs that the breeder is sure that have no heart disease. Close inbreeding of dogs with heart trouble or any other serious diseases should never be done. Heart trouble is a very serious disease, but eye disease that makes the dog blind or weak sighted, is of course a really extremely serious disease.

Your Caucasian Ovcharka, that you have bought from my breeding, will probably never get any serious diseases.

As far as I know, no other diseases has apparead on any Caucasian Ovcharka.
My conclusion is that Caucasian Ovcharka is an extremely healthy breed.

Please let us keep this breed as an extremely healthy breed by using our common sence when we breed new litters.