In 2012 I was lucky enough to go along to the US Italian Greyhound Specialty Show held in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The Italian Greyhound Specialty is the biggest Italian Greyhound Speciality in the US, organised by the Italian Greyhound Club of America (IGCA: http://italiangreyhound.org) and it attracts hundreds of Italian Greyhounds and their owners from all over the US and Canada each year. The event includes health lectures, some of which are on autoimmune diseases in Italian Greyhounds.
To view more photos of the Best of Breed judging (a class of over 50 US Champion IGs) at the show see: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3622965221262&type=1&l=8b0b99352f
It’s quite an event with the show taking up three days but there are also lots of other really interesting events scheduled around the show itself, not least some invaluable educational lectures on health.
A friend’s Italian Greyhound has recently been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder and I was interested to see that the IGCA has uploaded video and audio of two of their health sessions on autoimmune diseases in Italian Greyhounds from the 2012 Specialty …
