Flat Coated Retriever

The Flat-Coated Retriever is a gundog breed originating from the United Kingdom. It was developed as a retriever both on land and in the water.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-Coated_Retriever

AKC Video (link - https://youtu.be/ERB7Db6rWA4😞

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Judging

A Guide to the Flat-Coated Retriever -- Illustrated Standard (American Kennel Club)

• https://images.akc.org/pdf/judges/flat-coat-retriever.pdf

Article: Judging the Flat-Coated Retriever: Kurt Anderson

• https://crfcrc.org/judging-the-flat-coated-retriever/
• 1996 Breed Profile: https://crfcrc.org/1996-breed-profile/

Breed Profile: The Flat-Coated Retriever -- M.J. Nelson: GunDog Magazine. September 10th, 2012

• https://www.gundogmag.com/editorial/breed-profile-the-flat-coated-retriever/176238

• Flatcoated retriever
• Flat Coated Retriever (à poil plat)
• Flat Coated Retriever (de pelo liso)

Great Britain

There are numerous breed standards.

The basis of breed/conformation shows is the judging of pedigree dogs against the 'Breed Standard', which is a picture in words that describes the range of features that are deemed appropriate for the breed.

Three of the major international standards are:

The American Kennel Club

The Kennel Club, UK

FCI (Federation Cynologique Internationale)

1. Swedish Insurance Data

• Breed-specific information on rates of disease and death from Agria Pet Insurance (Agria Djurförsäkring) is available for many breeds. This breed has information on Veterinary Care and Life Insurance.
   

  Flat Coated Retriever:

  2006-2011

  2011-2016

  2016-2021

• https://flatcoatedretriever.pedigreedatabaseonline.com/en/

Health/Breeding Strategy Documents and Links:

UK, The Kennel Club: Breed Watch (Category 1)

• KC Breed Health and Conservation Plan:  https://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BHCPV3.pdf

• UK FCR Society health strategy document: http://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/images/pdf/2017/05/Health/hspet17.pdf

Sweden: Breed-specific Breeding Strategies: (in Swedish) and/ or English summary

Finland: JTO: 2022-2026: https://jalostus.kennelliitto.fi/RotuPDF.ashx?R=121&T=2

PEVISA: https://www.flatti.net/jalostus/pevisa/

Health Surveys/Reports

UK: Cambridge Flatcoat Retriever Cause of Death Survey/Mortality in a cohort of flat-coated retrievers in the UK- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1476-5829.2008.00181.x

UK Health Reports

See AGM Health Reports: 2013 , 2014,  2015, 2016 2017 2021...https://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/health-information/

Flatcoated Retriever Society health survey summary 2006: http://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/images/stories/health/health survey 2006.pdf

Analysis of 2011 Survey of The Health of British Flatcoated Retrievers: https://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/agm2011.pdf

The Flat-Coated Retriever Foundation (US)

• http://www.fcrfoundation.org/

Cancer Research - listings, summaries, reports - Flat-Coated Retriever Society

• http://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/health/cancer-research

Including information on the most recent research project into Histiocytic Sarcoma in the FCR by Cambridge University: Report & Brochure... REPORT: https://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fcrdobson.pdf

• BROCHURE: http://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/images/pdf/2017/05/Health/TumourBrochure.pdf 

Health and Cancer: Flat-Coated Retriever Society of America: https://fcrsa.org/cancer-research-studies/

UK Glaucoma research project: carried out at the Animal Health Trust: http://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/images/liz17b.pdf 

Current Studies
Genetic Diversity Testing for Flat-Coated Retrievers: UC Davis:

• https://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/dog/GeneticDiversityInFlat-CoatedRetriever.php

Canine Histiocytic Malignancies—Challenges and Opportunities
Katherine Kennedy, Rachael Thomas and Matthew Breen
Vet. Sci. 2016, 3(1), 2; doi:10.3390/vetsci3010002
Full Article: http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/3/1/2/htm
excerpt...

"While infrequent in the general dog population there is a particularly strong breed predisposition to HM in Bernese mountain dogs (BMD) and flat-coated retrievers (FCR), with odds ratios of 45.0 and 62.0 respectively"
Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Directions
"Despite several key advances in recent years, canine HM continues to represent a substantial clinical challenge due to the heterogeneity in disease presentation and consequent potential for misclassification, coupled with the absence of broadly effective treatment strategies. Continued efforts are needed to develop more sensitive and specific diagnostic markers that may be applied readily in routine clinical settings. This will require considerable investment in molecular characterization of HM at the genomic, transcriptional and translational level. Since translational dysregulation may offer options for targeted therapy, future studies should include quantitative assessment of members of the pathways highlighted by Boerkamp et al [5], particularly those controlling DNA replication and damage repair pathways. These efforts may also reveal the existence of molecular subtypes that explain some of the variation in tumor presentation and clinical behavior, particularly that evident between cases from the two breeds at greatest risk of HM. Molecular profiling will also offer avenues or defining targeted therapies that may offer improved prognoses both for canine and human patients. Treatment resistance and failure are common in canine HM, and the limited number of clinical trials has reduced the ability of the veterinary field to generate a widely accepted standard of care for these patients, despite reports of positive clinical responses in retrospective studies. The rarity of HS/DS in people has similarly stunted progress in the human field. Ultimately maximization of the ability to consider HM in context with its closest counterpart in human patients will be highly dependent on the ability to confirm the cellular origin of the canine disease, and to identify its underlying pathogenic mechanisms. This will determine the degree to which progress in the veterinary field may be translated back to human medicine, as a means to stimulate synergistic advances for these highly understudied diseases."

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INTERNATIONAL

The International Working Flatcoated Retriever homepage -- Promoting the Working Gundog

http://workingflatcoatedretriever.com/

A content rich website with a treasure trove of articles by breed experts from through out the world on breed history, breeding, genetic diversity and more.

Sweden:  Flatcoated retrieverklubben: http://www.frk.nu/
US: Flat-Coated Retriever Society of America, Inc.: https://fcrsa.org/   
UK: Flatcoated Retiever Clubs in the UK: http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/services/public/findaclub/breed/list.aspx?id=2046
       Flat-Coated Retriever Society: http://www.flatcoated-retriever-society.org/ 
       The Flatcoated Retriever Club of Scotland: http://www.flatcoat-scotland.com/
Finland: Finska flatcoated retrieverklubben rf: https://www.flatti.net/jarjesto/short-in-english/