Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla Association
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Health and Welfare

We will be continually looking at available information to see what actions are necessary to ensure the optimal health of the HWV. Our Health Survey conducted in conjunction with the AHT gave us useful information on the health of the breed.  We conducted our own survey in 2015 to follow on from this.  We are keen to follow up and investigate health issues identified by the results of these surveys. We are currently analysing the best ways of doing this and will report back on this in due course.

Also, a reminder to all breeders and owners to contact us with information of health issues they have encountered whether previously or currently for our records. We appreciate that health issues by their very nature can prove a delicate subject and we will endeavour to act with the upmost discretion. We are happy to keep any information given confidential, if requested. However, we do urge everyone to be open about health issues they encounter since extra knowledge provides us with more opportunity to act upon it.

The best way to report issues to us is through our reporting system: Report a Health Problem.

Don’t worry if you don’t have all these details, anything is better than nothing. However, the more definite details you can give us the easier it is to act on the information.

We also strongly recommend that owners report all problems to the dog’s breeders to enable them to make the most informed breeding decisions possible.

We are passionate about ensuring that this wonderful breed have a healthy future and we are undertaking several initiatives to ensure that this is the case.

Here are links to information and conditions that have been found, albeit rarely and in single numbers:

Allergies   Epilepsy   Hip Scoring   Elbow Scoring   Canine Hyperuricosuria (HUU)   Vizsla Inflammatory Polymyopathy (VIP)   Spikes Disease   Short Ulna Syndrome

Please also note that there are Facebook Groups to support any HWV owners with dogs who suffer with epilepsy (HWV Epilepsy Support Group), allergies (HWV Allergy Support Group) and cancer (HWV Cancer Support Group).

 

View information on HWVA rescue here.

The HWVA

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    • Elbow Scoring
    • Canine Hyperuricosuria (HUU)
    • Vizsla Inflammatory Polymyopathy (VIP)
    • Spike’s Disease or Canine Epileptoid Cramping Syndrome (CECS)
    • Short Ulna Syndrome
    • Breed Health Surveys
    • Urate Stone Disorder
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Latest News

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