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Andrew,
I have rescued a couple of Bs that were CKC registered. These originally came from breeders in Southern OH who sold them to an Amish USDA breeder/dealer but I think the sire and dams came from KY. One has been tested via DNA and came back probably Fanconi Affected. Is your B, Lola, in the Basenji Pedigree Database?
Jennifer
Yes she is. Unfortunately, I do not know who her dam is, so there is only information on the sire.
When I told the breeder, Carrie Bright (I think this was her last name, but for some reason, I think I've seen her last name as 2 or 3 different names), about Fanconi & her male's likelihood of being affected, she was surprised, as she had never heard of it. She was in Calhoun, GA, breeding under her young (maybe 10 years old) son's name, Dustin Brown. Soon after, yodeldog noticed some ads for basenji adults & puppies in North Georgia on those sketchy websites where you can sell your dogs. She thought it looked suspiciously like my breeder, so she passed along the info. Looks like once she found out about the liability issue (I specifically told her she was opening herself up to lawsuits since there was a test available before we even got our first male from her, so the last time I spoke to her was her 3rd year in a row using this sire AFTER TESTING BECAME AVAILABLE :mad:)
If you search for "rennt" in the database, Lola (Griffin's Lola Rennt) will appear. Unfortunately, the only info I have on her dam is that she was called either Twinkle or Star. CKC will not give out information on a pedigree unless you have papers, and I long ago lost Lola's CKC papers because they're about as useful as toilet paper.
Because she was breeding under her son's name, I wonder if Carrie has gotten into trouble with AKC before. That led me to believe that Lola's dam may actually be an AKC dog that she had to register CKC in order to get around an AKC ban but still have "papers" to give puppy buyers. There is an AKC registered tri bitch named Twinkles, but with the limited color genetics information we have, it is either difficult to tell if that is her dam or if the colors were registered correctly, it disproves that she could be the dam (Lola's a brindle, and her sire, from the picture I was shown, is a brindle).
This is starting to get lengthy, but if you click on Lola's sire, Selva's Little Deer & go to breeding info, you will find Twinkle under "breeding 1" & you can trace her pedigree from there.
The TRULY scary thing is… when I was first trying to determine the likely fanconi status of my dogs (while not so patiently awaiting the results from the cheek swab), I couldn't find much information on either of my dog's pedigrees. They are cousins through Lola's sire & Booger's dam. I sent Sally Lola & Booger's info specifically because there was such a lack of information, especially as it pertained to testing, that I wanted to make it easier for anybody who got a related puppy & then later found out about Fanconi & the test. Booger is now almost 4 & Lola is almost 3, and as more of their relatives' test results are going up (still only a handful), more & more carriers are showing up, all over the place, with a few affecteds as well. And it looks as if some of these dogs are still being bred. Very scary.
Jennifer, if you can use any of this info to see if there is a connection & perhaps give me any more info at all, I would really really appreciate it. To look up Booger's pedigree, search under "Pick of the litter". He is Griffin's Pick of the litter.
But I'd need an expert on coat colors, dilute, and research to assure me this would be desirable to breed.
