Sausage Dog Days – a new chidren’s picturebook fundraising for IVDD

Candy Jones has written Sausage Dog Days, an exciting and beautifully illustrated children’s picture book, to raise funds and awareness for charities supporting dachshunds who suffer from intervertebral disc disease (IVDD). You can help Candy to publish Sausage Dog Days by pledging to buy a copy of this brand new picture-book. Every penny raised, after costs, will be split between the Dachshund Breed Council and Dedicated to Dachshunds with IVDD.

Visit Candy’s Crowdfunding site and show your support. Thanks!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/sausage-dog-days-1

 

Candy’s story on YouTube

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Would you like to own a Sausage Dog Number Plate?

Last year, Carley Denton raised money to support our IVDD Screening Programme. Now, she’s offering her personalised number plate to the highest bidder, with the money again going to support IVDD Screening.

This will be a silent auction.

Email your bid to info@dachshund-ivdd.uk. The highest bid received by midnight (UK) on Sunday 11th February 2018 will win SS09 AGE.

Dachshund Breed Council Annual Health Report 2017

Download the full DBC Health Report 2017 (pdf).

Dachshund IVDD fundraising at Caldicot Castle 10/9/17

More than 200 Dachshunds and 300 of their owners descended on Caldicot Castle near Chepstow on September 10th for a day of fundraising and fun. The day was organised by Charlotte Baldwin who runs the “Dedicated to Dachshunds with IVDD” support group. Charlotte is one of the Dachshund Breed Council’s Pet Advisors and has already raised over £14000 to provide strollers, wheels and rehabilitation support for Dachshunds affected by back disease.

Despite it being a grey day with occasional downpours, everyone and their dogs participated enthusiastically in the Fun Show Classes and the walk round the castle. With raffles, competitions, cakes and doggie treats, there was plenty to keep people and dogs amused.

The event was being filmed by the BBC for the One Show and their presenter Angellica Bell co-judged the “Waggiest Tail” class with Breed Council Chairman Ian Seath. Angellica said, on her Instagram page, “Met some kind, friendly people as well as lots of adorable dogs“.

Breed Council Health Committee reps Gill Key and Aimée Thomas were also on hand to answer questions about the breed. The team answered questions about how to start showing, diet and body condition, exercise and separation anxiety as well as giving advice on breeding. Ian Seath said “Back Disease is the priority health issue we need to address in the breed and, last November, we introduced a screening programme to help with prevention. In the meantime, support like Charlotte provides is both welcome and necessary given the growing popularity of the breed. Today was a great opportunity for the Breed Council to provide practical advice to Dachshund owners.”

The Breed Council has a new Health website at www.dachshundhealth.org.uk where there is lots of advice on caring for a Dachshund.

A BIG THANK YOU to Charlotte and her team for all their hard work.

 

Brand new UK Dachshund Health website launched today

Today, we have launched our new health website. We’ve refreshed the design to make it easier for you to find important Dachshund health information more quickly.

To start with, many of the pages will link back to our legacy health website but we will gradually update the information and incorporate it into this new site. There is a wealth of information on the old site which we will keep as reference resources and for those people interested in more detail. We want to keep this site user-friendly, clean and simple.

In order to avoid duplicating existing content, particularly our advice on buying and owning a Dachshund, we are also including links to material on our main Breed Council website.

We also have our dedicated IVDD (Back Disease) website which remains the “go to” place for information on IVDD. This new site links to the IVDD one to avoid duplicating information.

Dachshund IVDD Screening Special Offer – August 2017 – Just £100 for 9 dogs only

Thanks to the generosity of the Little Legs Fundraising campaign we are able to offer further subsidies for dogs screened in August and September.

Lisa Roylance and Carley Denton have raised £900 and we can therefore offer 9 dogs the chance to be screened for just £100. The normal price is £300 at a CVS referral practice, reduced to £200 with a subsidy from the Breed Council.

Now, on a first come, first served basis, we can offer a further £100 subsidy. You will have to pay the CVS vet £300 and then reclaim £200 from the Breed Council’s IVDD Fund.

If you plan to breed from your Dachshund and he/she is aged 24-48 months, you can screen your dog. Contact Ian Seath to apply for the special £200 subsidy.

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who is supporting Little Legs Fundraising.

DBRG Health Symposium 22nd October 2017 – Surrey

Two of our favourite veterinary specialists are speaking at the DBRG Symposium to be held in Surrey on 22nd October 2017.

Dr Clare Rusbridge has worked closely with us on Lafora Disease and Professor Sheila Crispin has supported our research into Distichiasis in Mini Long Dachshunds.

Date of Event 22nd October 2017 Description When bad becomes normal – Welfare problems related to conformation With an emphasis on neurological problems such as Chiari-like malformation, brachycephaly, syringomyelia, vertebral malformations in screw tailed breeds, and Wobbler’s syndrome, Clare discusses how selection for certain conformation may increase risk of disease and opens discussion on how they could be addressed.   Ocular problems related to poor head conformation: the wrong kind o f skin and excessive amounts of skin With the exception of known inherited diseases such as hereditary cutaneous hyaluronosis (HCH), the reasons for poor head conformation are complex and do not follow patterns of Mendelian inheritance.  Sheila will argue that breed-specific standards are fine, provided that those standards are not causing, or perpetuating, conformational abnormalities that have health and welfare implications.   Ocular problems related to poor head conformation: skull shape, does it matter? What happens when we select for characteristics that change the shape of the dog’s skull? There are more than 400 documented breeds worldwide and their craniofacial morphological diversity is astounding, but not necessarily synonymous with good health. Sheila discusses the adverse impact that skull shape can have on a dog’s quality of life, with particular emphasis on the ocular problems associated with brachycephaly.   When bad becomes normal:  Inherited disease With an emphasis on neurological problems such as Lafora’s disease, degenerative myelopathy, epilepsy, and inherited susceptibility to immune-mediated disease and cancer, Clare Rusbridge discusses how challenging it can be to avoid genetic disease or disease susceptibility and opens discussion on how to tackle inherited disorders in a breed.

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