Kucharczyk, Natalia
Cislo-Pakuluk, Anna
Stefanowicz, Pawel
Bedford, Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3986-7210
Article History
Received: 7 January 2020
Accepted: 7 August 2020
First Online: 14 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: There were no associated ethical issues in this purely clinical study. The cats involved were not subject to painful procedures and no suffering was involved. As such ethics approval for a clinical study of this nature which involved no experimental work was not necessary according to both the ARVO guidelines and the Polish national regulations (ExternalRef removed). No institute was involved and all the authors are in private clinical practice. All the cat owners and breeders involved gave written consent for their participation, seeing the study as vital to future breeding programmes and the wellbeing of the breed.
: The authors would like to thank the owners and breeders of all the cats included in this clinical study for their participation and their permission to publish the results Written consent in both Polish and English to publish all the personal and clinical details together with the identifying images and the pedigree analysis has been obtained and the statements are available for scrutiny. These records are held by all the breeders and owners, together with all four authors.
: There are none.