Are There Catteries That Have Tested For PKD and Have Reported No PKD Positive Cats?
There’s a useful web site which reports statistics on PKD testing to date. Although I’m sure there are many catteries who, for one reason or another, have chosen not to report their results, I find this the best source of information currently available. Taking the stats for US Catteries through 10/8/98 and using MS Excel to manipulate the data, I came up with the following information: • Slightly less than one half of the US cats tested are included in the Cattery stats (1547 vs. 3545), so either many catteries haven’t reported, or many catteries reported only some of those tested to Barb. • The US catteries who have reported their stats have a significantly lower rate of positives than the total statistics indicate, which means that those that have not reported have a significantly higher rate of positives: Total Tested # Positive % Positive Cats reported by US catteries: 1547 469 30.32% Cats not reported by US catteries: 1998 836 41.84% All US Cats reported 3545 1305 36.81% • Based
