I have had a strange incident happen here. A breeder here in Australia has contacted me about a litter she studded her hob out to produce. Here is the story: Hob (sire of litter) is a chocolate/sable out of a sable & by a DEW Dam (to whom he was bred) is a DEW out of an albino & by a DEW * Note - Aussies consider marked whites DEWs - there is no silver colour like in the US Kits born from this cross started to lose function of hind end. After a few weeks (they are now about 6-7 weeks old) the affliction occured in almost all of the kits. The initial kits that developed the loss of motion have also lost motion of the front legs as well. The owner of the jill was upset and took the kits to the vet (duh) and was told the reason this happened was due to the hob's DEW parantage. This upset the Hob owner so she rang me. She is concerned about her hob and his offspring, as she should be. After chatting with her, she told me the jill owner started feeding the kits milk with calcium supplement at 2 weeks of age. He also started them on a meat mince. Also - the jill owner was *just* informed by her previous owner that this happened in her last litter. I told the hob owner that it was a genetic problem with the jill, and she should not be *too* concerned, but to watch her hob's other offspring. She is still very concerned and afraid after this incident. I told her to advise the jill owner to put a kit or two down and have a necropsy preformed to see what was *really* going on. Any information I could forward these folks would be wonderful. Thanks! Amy Flemming [Posted in FML issue 2887]