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I would pass on the Brevmac litter. No current eye test posted to OFA for either sire or dam. They may have them just not posted. No heart clearance posted for dam, her dam doesn't have any clearances on OFA and they appear to be breeding dogs with elbow dysplasia on both sire & dam. Not good. They boast on their site that they have the 4 clearances but don't tell you they have failed clearances and bred them anyway.

Maybe someone else can take a look. But you have quite a long list, so maybe you could narrow the list by looking on OFA.org yourself to confirm there are heart (by cardiologist) current eye (within 12 months) hips & elbows. If you see hips and no elbows it usually means they failed. If you see something else in that field it just means they were willing to show the failed exam.

If they have genetic testing make sure they didn't breed an ICT affected with anything other than clear.
 

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Dana is spot on.. if you have a history of normal eye exams there is a good chance it's sitting in a pile somewhere to be mailed in. But Robin is exactly right. I have one of those pups where the sire & dam breeder (she owned both, this is a red flag I totally missed) had them but not sent in. Had I taken the time to do my homework I would have realized there were eye issues on sire & dam, just 3 generations back there is PU on both sire and dams history. Just guessing but not sure how authentic the "normal" report was as clearly neither dog was normal.
As it turned out the sire could no longer pass an exam but breeder wouldn't say why, dam was tested shortly after pups were sold and had cataratas... which in itself isn't a big deal but when I finally did the homework it explained why my girl could not pass an eye exam. She hit the motherload from both sides and has all sorts of genetic eye problems.

Maybe I'm biased but if you take the time to get the exam and plan on breeding it's just not that much trouble to send them to OFA.

You still have a really long list, is there someone that you are really interested in?
 
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