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The WYSIWYG CHIC's

WYSIWYG believes in Health Testing and completes the examinations for CHIC certification from the Canine Health Information Center.

The following dogs are from the WYSIWYG breeding program

bulletAm./ Can. Ch. LADOGUERIE FLASHBACK V WYSIWYG   19622
bulletAm./ Can. Intl Ch. STERLING STARRY SKYE SO WYSIWYG 15638
bulletAm./ Can./Intl. Ch. WYSIWYG DESIGN BY DIVA V LONGO 15633
bulletWYSIWYG'S BACIO NERO  13763
bulletWYSIWYG'S BLUE BANSHEE  19456
bulletAm./ Can/Intl. Ch. WYSIWYG'S LOTHARIO V LONGO  13784
bulletWYSIWYG'S NIKKO BLUE, AJP  13761
bulletWYSIWYG'S NOCTURNE IN VIOLET  19451
bulletAm./ Can. Intl Ch. WYSIWYG'S WATCHER SASHAY  18067
bulletCh. EIO DANES TALIA V LONGO  18066
bulletSTERLING'S BLUE CHRYSANTHEMUM  19054
bulletCh. STERLING BLUNOTE GAMBLER  18906
bulletHARMONS BACK IN BLACK  19682
bulletAm / Intl Ch WYSIWYG's Hullabaloo   19978
bulletIntl CH WYSIWYG's Acappella   20297
bulletAm/Can Ch WYSIWYG's Bella Bacini, CGC, TDI   20296
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BLUE MOON'S HAVANA SMOKE AND GLORY  22221
bulletDEWITT'S COURT MADE ME BLUE  23664
bulletAm/Int'l Ch WYSIWYG's Lady Mira Nova 23355
bulletSterling's Deja Blue TDI 26272

The Canine Health Information Center, also known as CHIC, is a centralized canine health database jointly sponsored by the AKC/Canine Health Foundation (AKC/CHF) and the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA).

Mission Statement

To provide a source of health information for owners, breeders, and scientists, that will assist in breeding healthy dogs.

CHIC Goals

bulletTo work with parent clubs in the identification of health issues for which a central information system should be established.
bulletTo establish and maintain a central health information system in a manner that will support research into canine disease and provide health information to owners and breeders.
bulletTo establish scientifically valid diagnostic criteria for the acceptance of information into the database.
bulletTo base the availability of information on individually identified dogs at the consent of the owner.

CHIC Benefits

Once in place and accepted within the dog breeding community, the CHIC program offers benefits to breeders, buyers, parent clubs, and researchers.

bulletFor breeders, CHIC provides a reliable source of information regarding dogs they may use in their breeding programs. In the future, breeders can begin to analyze the pedigrees of a proposed breeding for health strengths and weaknesses as well the traditional analysis of conformation, type, and performance strengths and weaknesses.
bulletFor buyers, the CHIC program provides accurate information about the results of a breeder's health testing. For diseases that are limited to phenotypic evaluations, there are no guarantees. However, the probability that an animal will develop an inherited disease is reduced when its ancestry has been tested normal. Further, as more DNA tests become available and the results are entered into CHIC, the CHIC database will be able to establish whether progeny will be clear, carriers, or affected.
bulletFor parent clubs considering establishment of health databases on their own, CHIC provides the answer with no upfront investment required by the club. The CHIC infrastructure is supplied and maintained by the OFA. The data is maintained in a secure environment by trained staff. The services are not subject to the time, technology, and resource constraints that parent clubs might face on their own. This frees parent clubs to focus on their core strengths of identifying health concerns, educating their membership, and encouraging participation in the CHIC program.
bulletFor researchers, CHIC provides confidential and accurate aggregate information on multiple generations of dogs. CHIC information will also be useful for epidemiological studies enhancing our knowledge of health issues affecting all breeds of dogs.
bulletFor everyone interested in canine health issues, CHIC is a tool to monitor disease prevalence and measure progress.

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