BELLA Girl 4 (Lucy)

BELLA Girl 4 (Lucy)

  • Colour: APRICOT CREAM
  • Coat: WOOL
  • Size / Height to Withers (Weight): STANDARD / 57 cm (22 kg)
  • DNA Profile: DOG52417
  • GENETIC TRAITS: (Associated with Phenotype)
  • A LOCUS (Fawn/Sable, Tri/Tan): a[t]/a[t] - Tan Points/Black & Tan or Tricolour, may be Brindled (see K LOCUS)
  • BLACK AND TAN/SADDLE COAT COLOUR: POSITIVE - TWO COPIES of Tan Saddle Variant, may express the phenotype (See E & K LOCUS)
  • K LOCUS (Dominant Black): KB/k[y] or k[br] - ONE COPY dominant black (KB) & ONE COPY of non-black (k[y])
  • BROWN (345DELPRO) DELETION: B[d]/B[d] - DOES NOT CARRY Brown/Chocolate/Liver or Red [Deletion]
  • BROWN (GLNT331STOP) STOP CONDON: B[s]/b[s] - CARRIES Brown/Chocolate/Liver [Stop Condon]
  • BROWN (SER41CYS) INSERTION CONDON: B[c]/B[c] - DOES NOT CARRY Brown/Chocolate/Liver [Insertion]
  • D (Dilute) LOCUS: D/D - Pigment is normal
  • E LOCUS (Cream / Red / Yellow): e/e - Homozygous for Non-extension (White / Yellow / Apricot / Wheaten)
  • I Locus Colour Intensity: I/i
  • PIED: S/S
  • EM (MC1R) LOCUS - MELANISTIC MASK: E[n]/E[n] - NO Melanistic Mask (E[n]) Extension Allele
  • LONG HAIR GENE (Canine C95F): POSITIVE
  • HEREDITARY DISEASE DNA TEST RESULTS: 21 BREED SPECIFIC RESULTS LISTED BELOW
  • Canine Hyperuricosuria (SLC2A9): CLEAR
  • Centronuclear Myopathy (Labrador Retriever Type) (HACD1): CLEAR
  • Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (Labrador Retriever Type) (COLQ): CLEAR
  • Cystinuria Labrador Retriever Type - CYN (SLC3A1): CLEAR
  • Degenerative Myelopathy - DM (SOD1): CLEAR
  • Elliptocytosis B-spectrin (Labrador Retriever/Poodle Type) (SPTB): CLEAR
  • Exercise Induced Collapse (Retriever Type) (EIC): CLEAR
  • Gangliosidosis GM2 (Poodle Type) (HEXB): CLEAR
  • Hereditary Nasal Parakeratosis/Dry Nose (Labrador Retriever Type) (SUV39H2): CLEAR
  • Hyperuricosuria: CLEAR
  • Macular Corneal Dystrophy (Labrador Type) (LOC4): CLEAR
  • Malignant Hyperthermia (RYR1): CLEAR
  • Mucopolysaccharidosis VI (Poodle Type): CLEAR
  • Myotubular Myopathy X-linked (MTM1): CLEAR
  • Myotubular Myopathy X-Linked (Labrador Retriever Type) (MTM1): CLEAR
  • Narcolepsy (Labrador) (HCRTR2): CLEAR
  • Neonatal Encephalopathy (Poodle Type) (ATF2): CLEAR
  • Progressive Rod Cone Degeneration - PRA (PRCD): CLEAR
  • Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (Labrador Type) (PKLR): CLEAR
  • Skeletal Dysplasia 2 (Mild Disproportionate Dwarfism) (COL11A2): CLEAR
  • von Willebrand's Disease Type I - VWDI (VWF): CLEAR

Lucy is the "Eve" of the Hopscoch Breeding Program and an integral part of our family, forming very close bonds with both her human companions and our first Australian labradoodle Buddha. The day she walked in as an eight week old pup, Buddha stepped aside for her at the food bowl and Lucy has ruled ever since…

Temperament

Lucy is extremely  affectionate and highly empathetic, particularly with her female humansShe exhibits high intelligentence expressed as ease of learning and retaining new behaviours, but also in her own creation of communication markers such as walking right up to us, making a low gutteral utterance followed by a turn of her body to request us to follow her to meet a need.

Ros, a founding director of Pawsitive Connections, discovered Lucy has a heightened aptitude for smell detection games and because of her natural athleticism has encouraged us to progress Lucy to an introduction to dog sport program, which we are will commence in 2020.

Origins

Instinctively we knew Lucy was a special dog and as her breeder was no longer available to assist us in charting out her pedigree, we decided to get DNA breed identification.
We selected the Orivet GENO PET 5.0 to verify her origins, as it is currently the most complete Dog DNA test in the word. Thankfully the results gave credence to the description of Lucy's parents & grandparents given by her breeder and indeed she only carries the Australian Labradoodle foundation breeds.

Health

Amazingly however, through the Orivet GENO PET 5.0 we also discovered that Lucy's genetic health is A1+++ - she is CLEAR of all 181 screened hereditary diseases.

With her BVA hip score being 1 + 1 = 2 - Lucy is the Golden Quinella success story for any breeding program - outstanding temperament & intelligence, breeding, sporting agility and genetic health.