Italy

Breeding conditions

• Ordinary ROI registration is NOT gated on health. Riproduzione selezionata is a voluntary tier above it, with criteria set by the breed clubs - the third instance of this shape after Denmark Basis Plus and the French cotation.
• Conformation: 1 eccellente in speciale or raduno, males and females alike, and the grade counts only from the 18th month.
• A working or aptitude test is required: Molto Buono in a prova in tana or sopraterra, or a passed TAN. Italy is the only country in this document asking this for the breed.
• A biological sample deposit is mandatory for every dog applying to the selected register.
• Small-population rule: for breeds registering under 100 puppies a year, puppies need four different grandparents and the conformation minimum drops to Molto Buono. UNVERIFIED whether the Cairn falls under it in Italy - if it does, the "1 eccellente" figure is not the operative one.
• Puppies from two parents both graded hip dysplasia C cannot be certified as offspring of selected parents, where grade C is admitted at all.

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• Read via a third-party copy: ENCI and Fondazione Salute Animale both return HTTP 403, so the document read was the Club Italiano Lagotto Romagnolo copy. Content is the official ENCI list; the copy is third-party and dated 3 June 2020. Re-check against ENCI before treating a threshold as current.
• There is no "SAICT". The breed club is the Società Italiana Terriers.
• ENCI names its accepted laboratories - VEtoGene, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, L.G.S., NGB Genetics, GENEFAST, UNIRELAB, Università di Pisa, Erediti. Embark is not among them: a fourth distinct mechanism excluding it.