Meliora Drents

Are you a current or former Drent owner and want an easy way to give back to the breed? One of the BEST things you can do is submit information about your dog to the Vereniging de Drentsche Patrijshond database in ZooEasy via the form below, ESPECIALLY physical and behavioral health-related information. And you don’t have to be a member of the VDPH to do so!

(For my fellow non-Dutch speakers, don’t forget to turn on Google Translate when you open the link below!)

VDPH: Report Illness or Death

The VDPH ZooEasy registry is the world’s largest database on Drentsche Patrijshonden. It has been and is being used to influence population management research and decisions such as Dr. Pieter Oliehoek’s recent Population Analysis Report, best practices and recommendations for health testing, and proposed outcross plans. Large-scale data collection can help us understand what health or behavioral issues are affecting Drents the most, and then those issues can monitored or studied more closely to continue to preserve and improve the breed’s health overall.

Don’t know if something is worth reporting? When in doubt, report – the folks who manage the registry will filter what’s important. Every report is valuable in helping us learn more about this wonderful breed and how to best keep the breed healthy and thriving into the future!