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The Club attaches the greatest importance to producing Rhodesian Ridgebacks with good temperaments.

The Club strongly supports the KC / BVA hip dysplasia scheme and urges all it's members to ensure at least one and preferably both parents of a litter are hip scored before they are bred.

The Club has long held the belief that possible health problems should be acknowledged and confronted. As far back as 1968 the Club funded a research programme at Bristol University into the incidence of Dermoid Sinus. All Club members are made aware of the condition and the importance of checking for it's presence in newly-born puppies, and the club has produced an educational video on the condition. ( see publications ) In 1997 the club initiated the Dermoid Sinus Project with the ultimate objective of establishing a DNA test for the condition which could, eventually, lead to it's elimination from the breed.

Recently the club has helped fund research in Sweden into Dermoid Sinus. Nicolette Hilbertz of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences will shortly be publishing her long awaited findings. As soon as the report becomes available we will publish it on our site and hopefully 2008 will produce a genetic test for sinus.