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Some Dogue de Bordeaux can be prone to low immune systems.
Allergies and Cancer (Lymphoma) are all consistent with immune dysfunction disease.
A quality diet and healthy lifestyle for the dog is required to maintain it in it’s best condition. This may hopefully avoid any rise of immune deficiency usually due to poor management by owners or poor choice of breeding quality dogues.
Any Dogue that shows signs of continued poor health, undiagnosed allergies or illness should NEVER be bred from.
If a condition is being controlled by medication it is still a problem and that Dogue should NOT be bred from.
Coming from a relatively small gene pool, the Dogue de Bordeaux breed has been limited in it’s history in selecting suitably compatible and 100% healthy breeding partners. Something that is almost impossible is a rare breed especially one that almost was killed out.
Immune deficiency is an issue that all Dogue owners and other rare dog breeders need to be aware of and need to be willing to address if it arises. Genetically, environmentally, medically, nutritionally and holistically.
Canine cancer is an immune dysfunction disease. It is a failure of the body to recognize irregular cells as invaders. The lymph system is the body's "other" circulatory system, circulating white blood cells and most importantly, lymphocytes. These are specialized cells involved in immune function found throughout the body. In normal healthy dogs, these cells are manufactured in the bone marrow, go through a life span of around 30 days, and then die off and are re-absorbed into the body or eliminated through the waste channels.
In Lymphoma, the regulation of production is lost and these cells proliferate in large number, or they lose their programmed life cycle and continue to live on, overwhelming the other blood cells. High white blood cell count and swollen lymph glands are the characteristic signs of this disease, followed by lethargy, loss of appetite and leading eventually to death unless treated.
In most cases immune deficiency does not have to be a death sentence.
But it does mean that the dog’s general health and well being may be seriously affected and without ongoing treatment, usually constant maintenance of diet and medical treatment, a Dogue may usually not survive.
Link to DDB Society of America Website—Lymphoma Study
http://www.ddbs.org/page28
Some Dogue de Bordeaux can be prone to low immune systems.
Allergies and Cancer (Lymphoma) are all consistent with immune dysfunction disease.
A quality diet and healthy lifestyle for the dog is required to maintain it in it’s best condition. This may hopefully avoid any rise of immune deficiency usually due to poor management by owners or poor choice of breeding quality dogues.
Any Dogue that shows signs of continued poor health, undiagnosed allergies or illness should NEVER be bred from.
If a condition is being controlled by medication it is still a problem and that Dogue should NOT be bred from.
Coming from a relatively small gene pool, the Dogue de Bordeaux breed has been limited in it’s history in selecting suitably compatible and 100% healthy breeding partners. Something that is almost impossible is a rare breed especially one that almost was killed out.
Immune deficiency is an issue that all Dogue owners and other rare dog breeders need to be aware of and need to be willing to address if it arises. Genetically, environmentally, medically, nutritionally and holistically.
Canine cancer is an immune dysfunction disease. It is a failure of the body to recognize irregular cells as invaders. The lymph system is the body's "other" circulatory system, circulating white blood cells and most importantly, lymphocytes. These are specialized cells involved in immune function found throughout the body. In normal healthy dogs, these cells are manufactured in the bone marrow, go through a life span of around 30 days, and then die off and are re-absorbed into the body or eliminated through the waste channels.
In Lymphoma, the regulation of production is lost and these cells proliferate in large number, or they lose their programmed life cycle and continue to live on, overwhelming the other blood cells. High white blood cell count and swollen lymph glands are the characteristic signs of this disease, followed by lethargy, loss of appetite and leading eventually to death unless treated.
In most cases immune deficiency does not have to be a death sentence.
But it does mean that the dog’s general health and well being may be seriously affected and without ongoing treatment, usually constant maintenance of diet and medical treatment, a Dogue may usually not survive.
Link to DDB Society of America Website—Lymphoma Study
http://www.ddbs.org/page28