This could be playing a game of fetch or going for a walk. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is very good with children and quickly becomes part of the family. Barking is generally not a problem with this breed. Some Cavaliers are extremely quiet and lazy whereas others may be overly energetic and mischievous. The only generalization which may be made is they are all attention-seekers and they are all extremely affectionate. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is an intelligent breed and responds well to training.
Positive reinforcement ensures the training process goes smoothly. Cavaliers are very sensitive so be sure not to hurt their feelings throughout the training process. Cavaliers sometimes have trouble with housetraining; however, if you are consistent in their routine they become housetrained fairly easily. Cavaliers have medium-length coats which are fairly simple to maintain. They simply need brushed three to four times per week.
The feathering on their ears and legs is prone to tangles so there may be mats which develop that need brushed out. MVD begins as a heart murmur and progresses into heart failure. Cavaliers may begin developing this health condition as early as two years of age. If your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel develops food allergies you may need to switch to a limited diet to identify which ingredients have caused the allergy and eliminate them in the future.
Cavalier King Charles spaniels do not need a lot of exercise, only about an hour a day. You could split this into 2 or 3 walks. Another thing to note is a Cavalier is a natural born chaser and it will chase absolutely anything cars included. So bearing both of these traits in mind it is a good idea to keep this breed on a lead. Regularly check your garden fence too as Cavaliers are highly intelligent animals.
If there is a small hole you can bet your life this dog will find it! Cavalier King Charles spaniels are friendly and affectionate dogs. They mix very well with other animals and children. So be prepared to give this breed lots of attention and you will find you have a very devoted pet.
This dog will pine for you when left alone for any length of time so is best as a member of a household where someone is often home. Try not to leave a Cavalier alone for more than 3 hours. I think it is safe to say that the lifespan of this beautiful dog is dependent on many factors, some of which are in your control and some that are not. All you can do is follow the advice above to give your dog the best chance of leading a healthy life and long may that life be!
With a bit of luck and some good attention from you, one could reach the age of 14 which is a good number for a dog. Why is it thought that a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel has a short lifespan? There seem to various reasons why people think these adorable little dogs have a short lifespan.
Spay or neuter? Supervision Always supervise your spaniel closely. Eyes Cavaliers tend to get mucky eyes which will need cleaning. Nails If you are going to walk a Cavalier on pavements regularly then its nails should not grow too long. Temperature Spaniels can be sensitive to extremes of temperature so make sure you avoid any prolonged exposure to hot or cold areas.
Healthy Diet A Cavalier King Charles spaniel should be given high-quality food specially formulated for small breeds. Are kittens born with fleas? All of these diseases are listed in the left column of each page.
The content of the website consists of compilations of information from many veterinary specialists and other sources knowledgeable about the CKCS. Many of these disorders are present in other breeds of dogs, some to a greater extent than in the CKCS and some to the same or a lesser extent. We do not contend that all of these diseases are unique to cavaliers. But this website is only about the cavalier King Charles spaniel. Therefore, we focus on the extent to which these genetic disorders affect the cavalier, their symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments, and what breeders can and should do to try to lessen the existence of these diseases in future generations of cavaliers.
That is not an intent of this website, at all. The purpose of the list of the breed's recognized disorders, alphabetically by their various alternative names, is to enable cavalier owners to speed their search and find what they might be looking for, based upon any symptoms their cavaliers may be displaying. The CavalierHealth. The names of the disorders are listed alphabetically in the column at the left on each page. If you have any questions or comments about the website, go to our "Contact Us" webpage to see how to communicate with us.
The cavalier breed is susceptible to 25 inherited disorders. See this December article. By age five years, over half of all cavalier King Charles spaniels are expected to have mitral valve murmurs, and that percentage increases to the point that among those that survive to age ten years, nearly all of them are predicted to have MVD.
The expected lifespan of a CKCS can be quite short -- as young as seven years to an average of 9. Other disorders, such as hip dysplasia, should afflict one out of every four cavaliers. Still others, such as syringomyelia SM , are progressing through the breed so rapidly that statistics have not been able to keep up with the pace. It focuses upon the most severe traits, those that are lethal, painful, blinding, causing deafness, requiring lifetime treatment, or requiring surgery.
There are literally dozens of other genetic defects which are prevalent in the cavalier King Charles spaniel but which are not classified as severe or life-threatening.
And, thus far, the website has excluded some rarer disorders which CKCSs are believed to be predisposed to, such as incomplete ossification of the humeral condyle shoulder , various eosinophilic syndromes other than eosinophilic stomatitis , myotonia, and lymphangiectasia. This website also excludes some very severe hereditary disorders which occur either at birth or during early puppy-hood and of which the puppy rarely survives or which are so noticeable that no breeder would attempt to pass off an afflicted cavalier as a healthy one.
Such afflictions include atrial septal defect, parrot mouth brachygnathism , wry mouth, and hydrocephalus. The cavalier King Charles spaniel has become increasingly popular in the United States over the last twenty years. While it had grown slowly but steadily in popularity between its arrival in the United States from England in until its introduction into the American Kennel Club in , it was not until AKC's recognition that the numbers of litters of cavalier puppies per year began skyrocketing.
The cavalier in was the 17th most popular breed in the AKC out of breeds, up from the 70th most popular in With its increased popularity has come extraordinary over-breeding, which, for the cavalier King Charles spaniel, may well prove to be its death knell. The terminal heart disorder MVD is a painful disease for a cavalier to experience, and it is a painful disease for a cavalier owner to witness. It usually results in a premature and agonizing death for the dog, and years of heartbreak for its owners.
In the s, a dedicated group of veterinary cardiologists and geneticists began examining the extremely high incidence of mitral valve disease in cavaliers. They found that MVD was over twenty times more likely to occur in cavalier King Charles spaniels than in any other breed, and that by age 5 years, over half of all cavaliers may be expected to have MVD heart murmurs.
These canine heart experts devised a set of breeding rules, called the MVD Breeding Protocol , in and The MVD Protocol called for breeders to limit breeding to only those cavaliers which were at least 5 years old and with hearts clear of MVD murmurs as diagnosed by board certified veterinary cardiologists.
The only exception in the MVD Protocol was to allow the breeding of dogs as young as 2. Under the leadership of its then president, C. This MVD Protocol was expected to drastically reduce and possibly eliminate mitral valve disease in cavaliers under the age of 5 years called early-onset MVD over as few as two to three breeding generations. However, the MVD Protocol required that cavalier breeders drastically alter their breeding practices, since nearly all such breeders typically began breeding their cavaliers as young as 1 year of age.
Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of breeders of cavalier King Charles spaniels in the United States have ignored the MVD Protocol and, instead, have increased the breedings of their underaged cavaliers to meet the ever-increasing demand of the puppy marketplace.
In addition, since the American Kennel Club officially recognized the breed in , numerous breeders of other AKC breeds have added cavalier King Charles spaniels to their breeding kennels, without proper awareness or concern about MVD or any of the severe genetic disorders common to the CKCS. Also, in recent years the commercial puppy millers, who breed indiscriminately without any thought of health testing, and sell their puppies nationwide through pet shops and the Internet, have added the MVD-cursed cavalier to their inventory of breeds.
As a result, instead of eliminating early-onset MVD in cavaliers within two to three generations a generation being 2. A panel of ten of the top board certified veterinary cardiologists reported in November that every cavalier King Charles spaniel is at high risk for developing MVD. They recommend that all CKCSs be screened for mitral valve murmurs every year.
In recent years, syringomyelia has become a major crippler of cavalier King Charles spaniels. SM is an extremely serious genetic spinal disease which is widespread and believed to affect cavaliers of all bloodlines. The number of diagnosed cases has increased dramatically since
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