Health Matters
Breed Health Co-ordinator:
Wendy Tobijanski
Email: janskiterriers@btinternet.com
Tel: 07785 187332
The BHC's remit is to collate all health information that is relevant to the breed. Any health issues/eye test results/cause of death reports - all add to our knowledge and help to keep our breed healthy.
Wendy is always ready to help and advise.
Wendy Tobijanski
Email: janskiterriers@btinternet.com
Tel: 07785 187332
The BHC's remit is to collate all health information that is relevant to the breed. Any health issues/eye test results/cause of death reports - all add to our knowledge and help to keep our breed healthy.
Wendy is always ready to help and advise.
CESKY TERRIER HEALTH REPORT 2026
2025 saw just 17 puppies registered down from 20 in 2024 but no evidence of popular sires so that is really good, overall registrations are down across most breeds with 2025 seeing almost 29,000 less puppies registered than in 2024.
Co efficiency of inbreeding is 7.9% which is good but we must remember not all pedigree information is complete when calculating the COI.
I have requested the judges' reports for Breed Watch but they are not currently available.
I have worked with the Royal Kennel Club on a number of projects this year.
The Health Standard is something you should all of read and be familiar with, if not you can find it on the RKC website.
The Royal Kennel Club’s Health Standard consolidates all relevant health tests for your breed in one place, providing clear guidance on which tests to undertake before breeding and how to do so. The 'Good Practice' category highlights the most critical tests as a starting point, while all breeders are encouraged to aim for the 'Best Practice' level by completing all recommended tests.
Royal Kennel Clubs Breeding for Health Framework. This covers all aspects of health and welfare that should influence breeding decisions for any breed or type of dog. The framework considers inbreeding/genetic diversity, conformation, and breed-related disease/wellbeing. This will help us to plan our future health work and gives breeders a clear guide to the topics they should consider when breeding for health.
I am part of a focus group discussing genetic diversity, ways to maintain it and how to manage it in numerically small breeds, this is an ongoing project with many online webinars/meetings.
The RKC are developing a ‘’nose to tail assessment’’ another project I am working on with them which would be vet based and seems a more sensible approach to health than the APGAW s
Innate Health Assessment
A new Innate Health Assessment (IHA) tool for dogs has been launched by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW) to tackle issues around extreme conformation in dogs.
The IHA Tool is based on research from the Royal Veterinary College. The Tool is a 10-point checklist intended to assist dog breeders, licensing officers and prospective dog owners to carry out a visual check of any dog in assessing their innate health characteristics. The 10 criteria aim to capture the most common and serious extreme conformations in dogs today with an overall aim of achieving physically healthier dogs. The criteria may change over time in response to new evidence.The Tool is supported by a number of animal welfare charities and associated organisations. BSAVA is supportive of the principles.
Innate health describes a dog’s capacity to carry out the natural functions and behaviours that any normal dog should be able to do, such as being able to blink, breathe, communicate, exercise, eat, hear, reproduce and sleep. A dog with good innate health will be able to carry out all these functions without limitations caused by its physical conformation. The IHA tool can be accessed below.
If this becomes law it could drastically adversely affect Cesky Terriers as they could fail the assessment on a couple of points meaning they cant be bred from. please read about it, you could contact your MP too expressing your concerns.
I am part of the RKC Breeder Mentoring and Midwifery team.
I have also attended many seminars and webinars (I get bored in winter with few shows)! including:
History of conformation of pedigree dogs
Congenital heart disease in dogs
Hip and elbow screening
Degenerative myelopathy
Breeding for health
Eye problems including eye screening
As you can see I am working hard on your behalf, I continue to collect any heath information including cause of death and test results so please do keep sending them to me, I am always happy to assist in any health matters, you can contact me for more information about anything in this report.
2025 saw just 17 puppies registered down from 20 in 2024 but no evidence of popular sires so that is really good, overall registrations are down across most breeds with 2025 seeing almost 29,000 less puppies registered than in 2024.
Co efficiency of inbreeding is 7.9% which is good but we must remember not all pedigree information is complete when calculating the COI.
I have requested the judges' reports for Breed Watch but they are not currently available.
I have worked with the Royal Kennel Club on a number of projects this year.
The Health Standard is something you should all of read and be familiar with, if not you can find it on the RKC website.
The Royal Kennel Club’s Health Standard consolidates all relevant health tests for your breed in one place, providing clear guidance on which tests to undertake before breeding and how to do so. The 'Good Practice' category highlights the most critical tests as a starting point, while all breeders are encouraged to aim for the 'Best Practice' level by completing all recommended tests.
Royal Kennel Clubs Breeding for Health Framework. This covers all aspects of health and welfare that should influence breeding decisions for any breed or type of dog. The framework considers inbreeding/genetic diversity, conformation, and breed-related disease/wellbeing. This will help us to plan our future health work and gives breeders a clear guide to the topics they should consider when breeding for health.
I am part of a focus group discussing genetic diversity, ways to maintain it and how to manage it in numerically small breeds, this is an ongoing project with many online webinars/meetings.
The RKC are developing a ‘’nose to tail assessment’’ another project I am working on with them which would be vet based and seems a more sensible approach to health than the APGAW s
Innate Health Assessment
A new Innate Health Assessment (IHA) tool for dogs has been launched by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW) to tackle issues around extreme conformation in dogs.
The IHA Tool is based on research from the Royal Veterinary College. The Tool is a 10-point checklist intended to assist dog breeders, licensing officers and prospective dog owners to carry out a visual check of any dog in assessing their innate health characteristics. The 10 criteria aim to capture the most common and serious extreme conformations in dogs today with an overall aim of achieving physically healthier dogs. The criteria may change over time in response to new evidence.The Tool is supported by a number of animal welfare charities and associated organisations. BSAVA is supportive of the principles.
Innate health describes a dog’s capacity to carry out the natural functions and behaviours that any normal dog should be able to do, such as being able to blink, breathe, communicate, exercise, eat, hear, reproduce and sleep. A dog with good innate health will be able to carry out all these functions without limitations caused by its physical conformation. The IHA tool can be accessed below.
If this becomes law it could drastically adversely affect Cesky Terriers as they could fail the assessment on a couple of points meaning they cant be bred from. please read about it, you could contact your MP too expressing your concerns.
I am part of the RKC Breeder Mentoring and Midwifery team.
I have also attended many seminars and webinars (I get bored in winter with few shows)! including:
History of conformation of pedigree dogs
Congenital heart disease in dogs
Hip and elbow screening
Degenerative myelopathy
Breeding for health
Eye problems including eye screening
As you can see I am working hard on your behalf, I continue to collect any heath information including cause of death and test results so please do keep sending them to me, I am always happy to assist in any health matters, you can contact me for more information about anything in this report.