Attention ALL Gordon owners—complete the survey for ALL GORDONS,
including those living a long, healthy life!
On-line Gordon Setter Anonymous Health Registry/Survey offered through
OFA:
http://www.offa.org/surveys/survey_gordonsetter.html
Survey results are tabulated on ongoing basis and are available (in
aggregate) at
http://www.offa.org/SurveySummary.php?b=ACD&q=ALL&s=1167 |
This survey
will be analyzed and recorded by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals
(OFA). All information submitted is confidential and numbers are used
only in aggregate.
Please answer
the questions to the best of your ability and use a separate survey form
for each Gordon Setter you have owned, living or deceased. As you
complete a survey for each dog, simply restart a new one for the next
dog you are reporting.
In order to
complete the survey you will need information regarding your dog's
health. If needed, your veterinarian will be able to supply you with a
list of issues your dog has had diagnosed, so that you are able to use
the diagnosis listed under each category. Whenever possible, please use
a veterinary diagnosis. There is a box under every category where you
can answer “Other” and add a response or diagnosis if it is not listed.
You will need
to indicate which vaccines your dog has had, and what flea/tick and
heartworm preventative you use. You will be asked what health clearances
your dogs have, so you may need to have your certificates at hand for
each dog.
This is a very
comprehensive survey. It should only take about 15 minutes/dog, but may
take you as long as 20-30 minutes to complete, especially for the first
dog you submit. In many instances, when you answer "yes" there are other
screens that will appear with additional related questions.
Please enter
complete information for deceased dogs, and current information for any
dogs that are living. In the future, you can go into a new survey and
only enter new information (updates) for those living dogs that you had
previously entered, which will not add to the total number of dogs, but
will add to the existing information in the database.
ALL Gordon
Setter owners are invited to participate in order to make this survey as
valid, valuable and complete as possible. If you have acquaintances who
are not GSCA members, please share this link with them.
Thank you in
advance for your participation in this survey. This will be an ongoing
project that will help us put health funds where they are needed most.
Respectfully, Kristi Boehm, Chair GSCA
Health and Genetics Committee |