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I might step on a toe or two here, and I apologize first and foremost if I do. What where your reasons for purchasing Odie to breed to your girl-structure, pedigree, etc.? And the $400 you paid for Odie would have gotten you a nice stud fee from another dog too.

Immune disorders for the most part, are not something you can predict in breeding a dog say via a genetic test. But if you know that you have it in a line, you can pretty much say that it's a ticking time bomb. What you need to do is go back and ask the breeder you got him from, if any of his litters mates have come up with anything. Previous litters, parents, grandparents or siblings of parents, etc. If she can't give you clear answers concerning the generational health of those dogs, then I would walk, no run, the other direction and find a breeder who has a long term commitment with lots of data to offer on the health of her dogs.

Also like Chris said, it's not about quarantining puppies, it's about their long term health. Will you have the resources if a puppy buyer comes back to you with a sick puppy, to pay the medical bills, offer to replace the puppy or refund their money. Will you do it for the life of the dog?

Dogs with compromised immune systems not only have higher reactions to mites, fleas but also other allergins, and this can also contribute to other more significant health issues-joints, blood diseases, internal organs.

Again, my opinion only having seen a beautiful collie have to be PTS at just under a year of age due to immune system problems, it's not something to mess with and not something I personally would want to be responsible for spreading throughout a gene pool.