Dog Breeds Help Scientist Learn About Eradicating Human Diseases

We all know someone who has been diagnosed with a disease so horrible we wouldn’t wish it on our worst enemy. The people with these diseases suffer sometimes for years before they are diagnosed. Often times visiting multiple different specialists before someone anyone can offer them an answer. Not a cure and not even necessarily relief from their chronic pain but answers. No it isn’t all in their head. They really do have a disease that is causing their symptoms and there is a glimmer of some relief in the near future for them.

Enter Purebred Dogs. No not service dogs but every day dogs across the entire spectrum of dog breeds – the crazy terrier your neighbor owns or that hound dog your uncle thinks is the best thing since sliced bread even that little toy dog that thinks it is fun to roll in the mud and then jump on its owners bed. Purebred Dog owners and fanciers, you know the ones that constantly get ridiculed, called names, and told they are creating mutants? Yeah THOSE people have actually been working for years to learn how to eradicate genetic issues within their Dog Breeds and in the process finding answers that would take Scientists generations to figure out. By knowing their dog’s lineage and having upwards of 3 generations of dogs from their lines to test within a 10 year period Scientists are able to figure out which genes it is that carries the problem and what to test for in order to ensure to the best of medical science that their offspring are not afflicted with the same disease. The very same diseases that Dog Breeders are vilified over – the ones you would never even know about if they weren’t engaged in research for answers and a cure.

Scientists and vets across the world are also figuring out treatment plans for dogs suffering from these diseases which in turn spells relief for the human suffers of the same and similar diseases. For 20 years or more dog breeders and fanciers have been paying researchers to study their breeds and help them figure out solutions so that they can produce healthier happier dogs. They don’t go around telling the world about it. In fact you might never know that 5 years ago they shipped a vial of their dog’s blood to a Scientist in another state in order to be a part of a study to help eradicate a specific disease.

Canine Cancer is helping Human Scientists learn more about the disease in a much shorter period of time then they could ever hope for in humans. Why because geneticists can have access to grandma, daughter, and granddaughter possibly even great-grandma to test them see if they are sufferers see if they are carriers and then with a large enough sampling begin to come up with answers. What genes are the issue, what can be done to cure the disease, what can be done to lessen suffering and increase quality of life. Yes the crazy dog lady, who treats Fifi and Fido like her children and didn’t want to see them suffer, spent her own money to help find answers and by a strange but fantastic stroke of luck for people are helping to bring research that human scientists can only dream of obtaining in such a short period of time to light.

You might be a Mutt person all the way but Dog Breeds do have a place in Society that most people don’t even realize. So the next time you go to say I would never think about getting those Dog Breeds because they are sick stop yourself and say I am not a purebred dog person but did you know that the research being done on dog diseases is helping human sufferers of the same disease. If in a conversation with your friend about dogs they start saying how all Breeders are bad and producing dogs with defects ask them if they were aware that Responsible Ethical Breeders are working to find answers and because those answers are being found they can and are being bred out of the population and that the findings of their research and tears is being used in human research today.