Research looking at a common risk gene for idiopathic epilepsy involving Finnish Lapphund samples - though looks like no evidence in FL http://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12863-017-0478-6#Sec12
At the AGM on 26/2/17 the membership voted to make a change to the code of ethics - point 24 - change in bold below: 24. As the Finnish Lapphund is a late maturing breed, no breeder shall breed from any bitch, or allow his/her dog to be used on any bitch before she is 24 [...]
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Entries for FLOTY are now open Full details entries close Saturday 28th January 2017
Apologies to members if they received multiple copies of the winter newsletter - and a repeat of the autumn newsletter - but there were technical issues with the mail server We did not mean to spam you.
The SFLS are running a breed seminar on 4/2/17 at New Haw Surrey This event suits both new and experienced judges of the breed, and exhibitors, come along and find out what judges are looking for in our breed, learn about the points of the breed, will help you understand the critiques written abut the [...]
Congratulations to our winners! In no particular order, except for the first photo (Aino) which received the most votes and will appear on the cover of this year's calendar, see above the winning 12 photos which will form the 2017 monthly pages. Our 12 bonus photos are also shown above Order your copy online now [...]
As 2017 is the 10th anniversary year of the Southern Finnish Lapphund Society, the committee thought it would be lovely to celebrate with a "Calendar of Calendars". Breaking with the usual tradition of asking for your photo submissions, we have amassed an amazing collection of the 108 photos that have featured in the calendar since [...]
Super news - we can now announce the monies raised at Spitz in the Park - an amazing £2719.30 - the SFLS rounded this up by adding £10.70 so that we could send a cheque of £910 to Dogs For Good (Banbury) and £1820 to AHT for research projects on Cataracts and Epilepsy. A big [...]
The Royal Veterinary College research programme into developing a diagnostic test for canine Addison's is now ready to accept samples from dogs diagnosed with this condition. They are keen to have samples (a small amount of blood which can be collected at routine electrolyte testing) from UK Lappies, indeed the more Lappies who provide samples [...]
