I always wondered this and now since I met you guys I can ask it! 
Years ago we adopted Lacy. She was 9 when we got her. Anyhoo, even though technically the rescue wasn't supposed to give me her AKC papers, they did because they knew I wasn't doing anything with them. It was just for informational purposes. That being said her father was a double merle. She had health problems very early on and I'm wondering if her health problems could be because of who her father was?
She was diagnosed with severe arthritis at 6 years old(according to the vet records they gave the rescue). Her spine was all out of whack, she became almost completely deaf by the time she was 10 and her eyes were already cloudy when we first adopted her and just got worse from there. We had to carry her up and down the side stairs for the last 4 years of her life. We put her to sleep at almost 16 so her quality of life wasn't terrible with the proper medications but she had no range of motion in her joints and her feet turned out the older she got. It was like her body got old way to early.
Any idea if a double merle parent can affect the babies with health problems?
Years ago we adopted Lacy. She was 9 when we got her. Anyhoo, even though technically the rescue wasn't supposed to give me her AKC papers, they did because they knew I wasn't doing anything with them. It was just for informational purposes. That being said her father was a double merle. She had health problems very early on and I'm wondering if her health problems could be because of who her father was?
She was diagnosed with severe arthritis at 6 years old(according to the vet records they gave the rescue). Her spine was all out of whack, she became almost completely deaf by the time she was 10 and her eyes were already cloudy when we first adopted her and just got worse from there. We had to carry her up and down the side stairs for the last 4 years of her life. We put her to sleep at almost 16 so her quality of life wasn't terrible with the proper medications but she had no range of motion in her joints and her feet turned out the older she got. It was like her body got old way to early.
Any idea if a double merle parent can affect the babies with health problems?