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 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.

Unfortunately there are two dogs of this rare and wonderfull breed that have been eye screened and got bad eye diagnosis.

One of them, that has been imported from Russia, has the eye sickness, Microftalmus. She has two litters here in Norway. One of her sons got different eye diagnosis every time he was screened on his eyes. First he got the diagnossis free on his eyes, when he was a very small pup. Then at the age of 7,5 months, he got the diagnosis chataract, and his last diagnosis is RD-Multifokal. Unfortunately he was used for mating after the owner had screened his eyes and knew that this male has serious eye disease.

I am happy to tell you that those eye diseases do not come from my bloodlines.

In some bloodlines there is heart trouble, but it's not common. If a breeder get heart trouble in his og her bloodlines, it's very important to continue the breeding with dogs that the breeder is sure that have no heart disease. Inbreeding of dogs with heart trouble 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.

Because a small and new breeder of Caucasian Ovcharka here in Norway has written some wrong informations about a dog that died of heart trouble, I feel that I have to correct this.

This other breeder writes that Shabo iz Svetlogo Doma from Russia did not die of heart trouble, but that he was killed by other C.O. That is for sure wrong information. I have inside information about this. He died of heart trouble. And he was so strong and very big, so no other dogs would even think about trying to kill him, and they would never succeed either with killing him. So it was his heart that killed him, unfortunately. It's of course very important to avoid inbreeding and close linebreeding of his bloodlines, as we that are serious breeders of this rare breed, do not want heart trouble in our bloodlines. One of his great grand daugthers also died of heart trouble as young dog. I know this, because I owned her. She had Shabo iz Svetlogo Doma as great grandfather on both her mother's and father's side in the pedigree.

I knew Shabo iz Svetlogo Doma very well, as he lived in my home for about one year. So he spent a lot time of his short life in my home.

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.