CHIC is the abbreviation for The Canine Health Information Center.  It is a centralized canine health database sponsored by the AKC/Canine Health Foundation (AKC/CHF) and the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA).  It is a place to provide a source of health information for owners, breeders, and scientists that will assist in breeding healthy dogs.

Their goal is to work with parent club, for Cardigans this is Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America (CWCCA).  It was created to make a central information center to identify health issues with in the breed.  To maintain and establish a central health system that will support research into canine diseases and provide information to owners and breeders and make a valid scientifically diagnostic criteria for the acceptance of information into the database. 

The CHIC infrastructure is supplied and maintained by the OFA. The data is maintained in a secure environment by trained staff

The benefits will be for breeders, buyers, parent clubs and researchers.

• For breeders:  Provides a reliable source of information regarding dogs they may use in their breeding programs.

• For buyers:  Provides accurate information about the results of a breeder's health testing.

• For researchers:  Provides confidential and accurate aggregate information on multiple generations of dogs.

The CHIC database is a tool that collects health information on individual animals from multiple sources. This centralized pool of data is maintained to assist breeders in making more informed breeding choices and for scientists in conducting research. In order for data to be included in CHIC, test results must be based on scientifically valid diagnostic criteria.

The key element of CHIC is to customize or tailor to the needs of each breed. These unique requirements are established through input from the parent club CWCCA. . Breed specific requirements typically consist of the inherited diseases that are of the greatest concern and for which some screening test is available. Each parent club also drives specific screening protocols.

The Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America  (CWCCA) requires these health test for a CHIC number

CERF - EYE exam 

Hips - OFA, Penn Hip, OVC

PRA -DNA test clear

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