NB The dogs are slowed down to 1/4 speed to give your eyes time to really see how their bodies actually move. Kim & Gypsy get a real workout, running along the beach in joyous pursuit of my quad bike. My husband, sitting on the rear luggage rack, managed to film them at it. Music: Led Boots by Jeff Beck. "A Mohawk hairdo or Spina Bifida? Ridged or Ridgeless?" Despite ruthless culling (killing) of all ridgeless pups, as enshrined in the Rhodesian Ridgeback breed standard, 1 in 20 Rhodesian Ridgeback pups is born without a ridge. Anyone wondering about, or objecting to, the lack of a ridge on what must still be called 'Slickback' Rhodesian Ridgebacks will have to accept the ungainly nomenclature until breeders come to their senses and either admit the ridge for what it is — a medical deformity, iea mild form of Spina Bifida which puts the young pups at a 10% risk of a potentially lethal, difficult to diagnose and medically expensive complication called Dermoid Sinus (an opening leading from the spinal cord to a hole in the skin on the ridge, forming a potential entry passage for bacteria etc. into the spinal cord or brain) — and either breed this dangerous, purely cosmetic deformity out altogether leaving all 'Ridgebacks' free from Spina Bifida and safe from Dermoid Sinus and its dangerous and expensive complications, or at least allow those who wish their beautiful, graceful 'African Lion Hounds' to be free of the deformity to breed from 'Rhodesian Slickbacks' and make the ...
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