Test, Test, Test!

    Early this year we got our kennel name 'Keshumi's Pride' but late last year we'd already started with adding one of our dogs Zumi (Kazumi Anana Amarok) to the Belgian kennel club KMSH-SRSH, because most of our dogs are imports from Poland. 

(Zumi ~ Kazumi Anana Amarok)

    So first thing we had to do was change her pedigree from the export pedigree we had to one that was added to the Belgian kennel club. We did a DNA test for her at the same time so they had that in their database as well. If we wanted to breed a litter with her we had to do the DNA test anyway, to prove that she's the mother. So we did in beforehand (also spreads the costs). The first time they couldn't find enough DNA in the tube/on the cotton swab, so we got sent another test and had to do it again, and it took, so now she was in the Belgian Database and we had her DNA-profile. 

    The next step was getting her tested for any eye diseases, they are only valid for a year so we had to figure out when it would be a good time to get the tests. Since Zumi was quite regular (every 6 months), until Ygritte went into heat only 3 months after Zumi's last heat and she joined her again (can I hear a yay for multiple intact females in one group *sarcasm*). So we didn't know and decided to do the test in december of 2020 just to be sure we would be on time. We also decided that we would do the eye tests before the hips, because if something was wrong with her eyes we wouldn't be able to breed with her anyway, and the eye tests were less expensive than the hip tests. She came back clear on everything. So that was one more test down, one more to go. 

(Zumi ~ Kazumi Anana Amarok)

    The appointment to do x-rays of her hips was scheduled for early January 2020 and our own vet could do them, which is always a big plus. Since we don't have to drive far, like we had to for the eye tests. The tests were send out directly to the University in Ghent where they would grade them. We later heard that they only did this about once a month so we went on crossing everything that Zumi wouldn't decide to go in heat before we got all the tests back. 

    Then late this week we got a call from our vet, the University had send the results back to him, instead of to us. He started pulling Bart's leg by saying that he had bad news, but in the end he had to come clean and announced that everything was perfect;

ED left: 0
ED right: 0 

HD: A

    And now the waiting continues, only this time until she will be in heat. *fingers crossed*