I read your views with regard to Chiari. I didn’t realise that Chiari was a human condition as well as in pets, until very recently. You sound like a very brave and understanding person. Our family had to make a very difficult decision to put our dog of just 2 years old to sleep, as she was diagnosed with chiari in February this year. For a while the medication seemed to ease her condition, but in the latter part of her short life, she was refusing to walk very far, sitting in her bed, not eating as well and also becoming aggressive to a point where she bit my daughter, which was totally out of her character and indeed the cavalier, King Charles characteristics. In our last hours with her, she was wagging her tail and giving her paw to us, it was unbearable and heart breaking that soon we would be saying goodbye to her. Five weeks on from saying Goodbye we miss her so much, our home has lost someone very special, misty was loved so much. In the next few weeks I intend to write to the breeder, to let her know about Misty’s condition. This condition and other medical problems due to in-breeding that reduce the life-span of dogs is very cruel, and any breeder who knowingly breeds with life threatening conditions, has no care for the welfare of animals. This breeding should be outlawed, every legalised breeder should hold a license which enforces the necessary checks etc required to ensure as much as possible that they breed puppies that are born without conditions detriment to their survival. A dogs life is short enough without being shortened by genetic malfunctions, causing immense suffering to dogs and immense sadness to the dog’s carers.