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HEALTH TESTING

The health of your dog is an important aspect of breeding, showing, and sporting. While the SIKC does not offer health testing for canines we do endorse a few of the health testing services offered by our community members

HEALTH TESTING SERVICES

There is no application process for having your health testing service endorsed by the SIKC. Breed Clubs that offer testing will always be endorsed, as long as it's clear that RNG is clearly at play when results are decided, while independent services will be judged based on the above mentioned clear RNG factor where results are concerned.

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Health testing does not have to be endorsed by the SIKC for you to use them! 

CREATING A SERVICE

If you're looking to create a service, you will want to extensively research whichever breed(s) you're planning to provide health tests for and create an RNG, fair method of determining health issues/lack thereof for the dog.


Some people simply perform their own rolls on things such as genotype, hips, and elbows but it isn't backed up by a service and organizations are generally considered more 'reliable' from a RP standpoint. If your breed does not already have any offered health service, there's no shame in foregoing the testing until there is a service that covers the breed - in truth, people mostly use it to add variety and realism to creating breeding lines. It prevents every single dog on site from being 'breeding stock,' since it's unlikely in the real world that every puppy of every litter would go on to be healthy/quality for litters. 

Endorsed Services

An endorsed service is a health testing organization that the SIKC has decided to allow results from when required for certain events. The Breed Stability Test, Hunt Test, and Canine Good Citizen all require testing by one of the agencies listed below in order to participate. You are always welcome to receive your testing from other services, but you will also be required to have something from an acknowledged source in order to meet the testing criteria.

BREED

RAN BY

WEBSITE

VARIOUS EUROPEAN DOGS

EUROGEN

GENERAL SERVICES

The testing listed under general services are often independent companies providing health testing to a variety of different breeds, particularly those that do not have breed clubs.

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SIKC is happy to consider adding services that include other breed-specific services, in addition to ones that may offer comprehensive testing that simply does not include very niche health conditions.

BREED CLUBS

When it comes to events requiring health testing, please be aware that individuals must always go to the breed club first if it is available and listed here!

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Breed clubs that have demonstrated how their RNG works and the fairness distributed across all dogs they test may be added to this section!

BREED

RAN BY

WEBSITE

CENTRAL ASIAN SHEPHERD

ABA

DOBERMANN

DPC

GERMAN SHEPHERD

GWSC

VARIOUS WORKING BREEDS

SWGC

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