Eye testing Day

Our holiday started with the eye testing day at Riverbank which thankfully ran like clockwork. Stuart was brilliant as usual, so good with all the dogs and helpful and chatty throughout, makes it so much easier when dealing with someone who takes a real interest and is so willing to answer questions. Gemma ans I were there from 11am to 5pm making sure everything ran smoothly and we actually all really enjoyed the day. All the dogs I had tested passed both their adult eye tests and gonioscopies apart from (rather unexpectedly) Drake and Mac who were both diagnosed as having narrow drainage angles and classed as 'goniodysgenesis affected'. They will obviously both be castrated and withdrawn from stud. I am pretty gutted about Mac failing to be honest, as far as I know he is the only ISDS registered dog to have been tested and publicly reported as affected so far. I had planned to use him on Dottie later this summer with the intention of keeping a puppy so am pretty dissapointed that I'm not going to be able to and will have to try and find an 'unaffected' son to use at some point instead. Anyway, my advise to anyone owning a Mac or Drake son/daughter or grandchild should have their dogs gonioscopy tested before breeding and, even if tested clear, they should only be mated to other clear tested dogs.

So...my dogs now tested clear for both the standard eye test and gonioscopy are...

Spark, Viggo, Lexie, Faith, Dottie, Lori, Dazzle, Kitten, Orlaith, Eabha as well as cocker spaniel Teal. My parson, Squirrel also passed her adult eye test.

Other Brynings tested clear for both examinations were...
Border Collies
Echo (Bryning Superstellar) - Quillan X Lexie
Charlie (Bryning Bright Light) - Ethan X Dazzle (Spark's brother)
Cocker Spaniels
Radley (Bryning Truly Radley Deeply) and Murphy (Bryning Makin' Trouble) both Drake and Teal pups.

Other Brynings tested unaffected while we were away were...
Indi (Bryning Little Red Indian) - Mac X Molly
Jace (Bryning Ray of Sunshine) - Bond X Spangle (Dazzle's sister)
Lola (Bryning Love in a Mist at Croxlea) - Junnu X Pipit

We met up with Laura at the vets, who brought Chance down for us to take to Belgium with us (he was going to a new home in Switzerland) and finally hitched the caravan up and set off for Huntingdon at 6pm for the start of our 16 days away.