Texas nurse’s dog, Bentley, tests negative for Ebola virus!

New York Daily News ^ | 10/22/2014 | BY NICOLE HENSLEY

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Bentley doesn’t have Ebola, but he’ll stay isolated in Dallas with plenty of time to play and snooze until Nov. 1, when his quarantine is over. His owner, Nina Pham, has since been upgraded from fair to good condition after contracting Ebola.

Bentley is Ebola-free, but his quarantine isn’t over.

The cute Cavalier King Charles spaniel — whose owner, Texas nurse Nina Pham, is battling the dangerous virus at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland — will be kept in isolation until Nov. 1 despite testing negative for the infection, according to a statement released by the city of Dallas.

The 1-year-old dog will remain quarantined at Hensley Field Services Center for the allotted 21 days, just like humans who have been exposed to the virus.

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'Mixed' often means you don't know all of the breeds involved,

In the case of KNPV, they usually do, for at least two or three generations. They're breeding dogs for courage in working ability, which is more about temperament than it is appearance. There are a number of tests in KNPV PH1 trials that involve working through pain (that the dog knows is coming), gunfire, judgment under intense duress, and commitment to a command despite agitated distraction. Then there is endurance over a trial that takes two days to complete, from obedience, to athletics, to tracking, to object guard, to bite work. A KNPV PH1 title is an achievement exerting enormous influence upon the breeding program there.

My point is not about KNPV as much as it is about the original purposes of dog breeds. They were for work. We should never forget that nor omit it from our qualification for outstanding individual attributes. In that respect, the AKC with its focus upon appearance has done enormous damage.