Midland & West of England Great Dane Club
Midland & West of England Great Dane Club
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PLEASE SEND YOUR UPDATED JUDGING CV’S TOGETHER WITH PASS CERTIFICATES to: Mrs O. Bates, Heyescroft, Northwich Road, Stanthorne, Middlewich. CW10 9JE if you would like to be included on the Great Dane Breed Council Judges List . Remember A3, B & C lists need to re-
For application forms and updated qualification requirements click here
This is just a timely reminder for anyone who has or suspects the dreaded Kennel Cough in their home or kennels. Please consider others and don’t bring your dogs out until at least 3 weeks after they have stopped coughing.
Welcome to the official site of The Midland & West of England Great Dane Club where we will endeavour to keep you informed of events & information relating to our beautiful breed, past present & future. We realise that many of our members connect through the show ring but, for those who do not, we welcome suggestions to add items of interest.
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Updated 1/8/2019
Re. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018. By applying to be on a judges list, it is assumed you are giving permission for your contact details to be made available to general and breed clubs, so that they may invite you to judge at their shows. If you wish to remain on our judges list you need take no action. If however you would like to remove yourself and contact information from our list please email me HERE. Also if you do not wish to be included in the members list at the back of our next annual please email Caroline Wareing HERE
Midland & West of England Great Dane Club Annual 2020
recording events from 2019.
We rely on your ongoing support by booking pages in our clubs
annual, enabling us to continue to produce a pictorial history of our breed.
Bookings are being taken NOW
This year we really need you to have adverts ready by early November.
You may now view and check your membership status. Updated 29/7/2019. Please click HERE to make sure your membership is up to date to receive the great benefits of being a member of the Midland & West of England GDC. Please also inform us if you change address, to receive next years annual.
DCM Research still ongoing at Liverpool University Small Animal Teaching Hospital. If you are interested in having your Dane tested there are 2 options: You can travel to the hospital and have a heart scan + bloods etc done here -
Great Dane Dilated Cardiomyopathy has not gone away! -
Seeking Great Danes!
Don't give up now! -
we can continue to find out more to benefit the health, quality of life
and welfare of Great Danes.
We invite any of the following Great Danes and owners:
- Great Danes of 12 months of age and older can be screened either by your primary vet or at the University of Liverpool. Tests include a blood sample for cardiac biomarkers and the Holter monitor. lf you attend your own vet, the Holter unit will be shipped to the vet from the Universityof Liverpool, with full instructions for fitting the Holter and for handling and lab details for the blood sample. The total cost for these tests if paid for privately would be about £826.
- Great Danes of 4 years of age and older are mainly screened at the University of Liverpool, so owners will need to attend the Small Animal Teaching Hospital. Tests include blood tests for general healthy profile, thyroid testing and cardiac biomarkers, echocardiography (heart ultrasound) and Holter testing. The total cost for these tests if paid for privately would be about £825.
- The Kennel Club Charitable Trust and Great Dane Breed Council funding cover MOST of these costs,but a condition of the award from the Kennel Club Charitable Trust was that each owner should make a small contribution towards these tests (ONLY £50 for the FIRST TIME the dog is tested as a REGISTRATION FEE) to show your personal commitment to advancing the health and welfare of the breed. Any subsequent tests (we usually see Great Danes every 1-
2 years of their lives) would be FREE OF CHARGE. We hope you agree that this is good value, especially after 10 years of work already into heart health in Great Danes.
lf you would like more information, or to arrange a booking for full screening or Holter screening, please contact Mrs Joan Toohey (receptionist at the Small Animal Teaching Hospital, University of Liverpool), or Professor Jo Dukes-
Small Animal Teaching Hospital, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus,
Chester High Road, Neston, Cheshire CH64 7TE.
Thank you for reading this! Jo Dukes-
Printed with kind permission from Joan Toohey
Great Dane Dilated Cardiomyopathy has not gone away ! -
What we know:
- Kennel Club 2014 Pedigree Dog breed Survey: the leading cause of death in Great Danes was Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), accounting for nearly one quarter of all deaths (23.4%).
- We have been studying DCM in Great Danesince 2008, from the LUPA project onwards. We found from health screening Great Danes of 4 years of age or older, 35.6% of all dogs screened had DCM. e also found that there was a risk of sudden death in Great Danes, even before any other signs.
- You told us, in a large questionnaire including information about 710 Great Danes (Summer 2015),7.6% of all dogs had a sudden death -
in most of these, they were under 6 vears old. We believe that these sudden deaths are "electrical deaths" because of abnormalities of heart rhythm. From our work over the last decade with Great Danes, we have found that Danes with abnormal heart rhythms are more likely to have a sudden death. Abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular tachycardia from a collapsed Great Dane, is shown at the top of this flier - only one ECG complex (*) is normal. After treatment, her ECG showed her heart rhythm was returned to normal (bottom ECG). - We know that early treatment of dogs with evidence of DCM on echocardiography will delay their progression and so screening dogs will help with both length and quality of life, even though we cannot stop the disease. It is also likely that specific anti-
arrhythmic medication may reduce the frequency of abnormal heart rhythm.
What we do not know:
- Can a simple blood test for cardiac biomarker tests be sensitive enough to identify Great Danes at risk of developing DCM or sudden death?
- To investigate this, we need to take blood samples for the cardiac biomarkers from Great Danes with Echo and Holter studies.
- In the future, cardiac biomarkers might be useful to focus the gold standard screening with echo Holter.
- We need to know more about the risk of sudden death in Great Danes and association with DCM.
- We have funding from the Kennel Club Charitable Trust and Great Dane Breed Council to investigate this further, but we need your continued support
THE MIDLAND & WEST OF ENGLAND
1948 GREAT DANE CLUB 2019
OPEN SINGLE BREED SHOW -
Plus The Peter Russell Memorial Special Award Stakes
(By special permission of the K.C.) (Held under Kennel Club Limited Rules & Regulations)
St Peters Church Hall, Church Lane, Bickenhill,
Nr Solihull, B92 0DN
on SUNDAY 28th JULY 2019
Show opens 10.00 a.m. Judging starts -
Main show not before 11 am.
Main show judge Mr Roger Cruden (Shamsky)
Stakes classes Mr Shaun Creamer (Cremwell)