Hello there I was thinking about studding my boy boomer out. he is papered and has NO health problems.. so if there is any one in Alaska that has a bitch they want to breed let me know.. Boomer comes from a breeder in Missouri and that would mean some new genes to the pool!!! since us alaskans are so isolated.....our doggies genes are too!!!!

Any way let me know if any one is interested!

Then he is fully OFA certified ? What is his full name or one of his OFA cert. numbers so I can look at them please. Maybe I know his breeder..whom is it? Maybe know them. We could also inquirer about his lineage.

I am inquiring as we are always on the look for a good health tested male.

Do you have any pictures you could share.

Thank you in advance.

12 months old for the test? and what is that?

Good Morning,

OFA is a data base for all breeds. It will someday, hopefully, help our breed get more and more health. The more we test and the more we use OFA the better OFA and our breed will get. ARTA's ( American Rat Terrier Association, Rat Terrier parent club) members voted on the most prevalent health issues our breed has and the ones that we should test for. In hopes that we can identify the carriers to breed away form these problems and to hopefully prevent them in the future. These test are, Patella, LCP, Hip Dysphasia and Cardiac.

Here is a link that might help explaine things more. www.kndkennels.com/links.html and this link might be helpful too  www.kndkennels.com/ofainfo.html

Patella and cardiac can be tested for at the age of 1 year. The rest can be prelimed before 2 but it isn't official until they are 2.  It can be posted but it will show that it is a prelim.

You can do this testing from anywhere... It doesn't matter that you are in Alaska. Your vet can do the patella and cardiac exams and he does the x-rays for hip (CHD this xray is also used for the LCP) the x-rays are then sent to OFA. OFA is the ones that determine the CHD and LCP.

Good luck and thanks for inquiring about OFA. It truly is important to our breed.