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Health Issues
This page is dedicated to
addressing health issues in the Alaskan Klee Kai, and providing the owner with
information to help guide in decision-making regarding your dog’s health. To many breeders, information presented on
this site might be common knowledge to them, but to the pet owner who is not
into breeding, this information is being offered as a guideline to assist you
in taking care of your dog.
Recommendations for Health Monitoring of the Alaska Klee Kai
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Update on Thyroid Disease, Vaccine
Issues, and Nutrition
Autoimmune Thyroiditis
Seminar - Dr. Jean Dodds
Thyroid Disease and Autoimmune Thyroiditis
2-16-2008
Factor VII Testing Source Change
Q & A - Dr. Jean Dodds of
HEMOPET on Hypothyroidism
1 - 2009 January - AKK Test Request Form
2 - 2009 January
- Alaskan Klee Kai - Other Tests & Instructions for Testing
3 - 2008 January - Instructions Sample Colloection Thyroiditis Genome Project
4 - 2008
January - Informed Consent Thyroiditis Genome Project
About Factor VII Deficiency in the
Alaskan Klee Kai
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When considering the health
of your dog, some simple suggestions come to mind:
- it is extremely important that you find a
veterinarian in whom you have confidence and trust, and with whom you can
develop a strong working relationship for the health of your dog.
- if you find a veterinarian that makes you feel
uneasy or one that you just do not feel comfortable treating your dog the
way you would like, you should
search for one that DOES meet your requirements.
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- if the veterinarian that you have chosen meets
your requirements, and truly wants to work with you, then you have made an
excellent step toward maintaining the health of your AKK.
- On occasion, your veterinarian may ask you for
suggestions as to what to do in the event questions may arise about any
known health issues in the Alaskan Klee Kai. To date, there are no published data on AKK, and much of the
information that is circulating in the AKK world, may be based on word of
mouth rather than on factual data.
Therefore, when asked this question by your veterinarian, suggest
that the veterinarian follow whatever procedure or protocol would be
appropriate if the patient was NOT an AKK, and to follow his/her instinct
if this was a different breed that presented with this situation. Then work with the veterinarian to find
the answers for your dog’s health.
Should your dog have any health issues, please
share them and the laboratory results, treatment and outcome with the
Health & Medical Research Committee by forwarding the information to:
Lo
Binkley, 77 W Avenida de las Flores, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (snail mail) or e-mail @ lobink@roadrunner.com
AKKAOA H&MR Committee 03.15.04
Why
Perform Blood Work? Read
more...
For
more information on health issues visit:
http://www.cah.com/library/labtests.html
Permission granted
to use this link from David Tayman, D.V.M.
on March 17, 2004
Health
& Medical News - What we are doing - Read More
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