Quote Originally Posted by MajesticCollies
I feel its not the Championship status but the Pedigree line of Health and temperment that should be considered. Unfortunately there are plenty of Showers out there that have an unhealthy line but the dog is beautiful.
I completely agree! Since you breed collies, maybe you can help me --- I know a collie breeder. Now from her website you would think she is great because all of her 6 dogs are champions and most of them have several performance titles too. However, 2 of her dogs have collie eye anomaly, 4 are MDR1 carriers, and a couple of them have mild micropthalmia. I know that some things are not issues to a breed, like a Belgian with PPM can be bred because it doesn't cause sight problems in that specific breed. But isn't CEA a bad thing for collies? Should these dogs really be bred?