Longtime member, not active. Had a basenji with the same diagnosis back in 2004. He took a tremendous amount of bicarb each day, his Fanconi was being well managed, but he started having seizures at night. Our vet gave us something to stop the seizure that we'd administer rectally. We kept track of the number of seizures and they started becoming more frequent, to about twice a week, if I recall. The final seizure he had he went temporarily blind and howled and howled and we knew that was it was time. I just sat on the floor with him and cried. A couple months later we looked at photos we had taken of him right before and he looked very, very tired. Very much the hardest thing we had ever done was to let him go across the Bridge, but after looking at those photos, we had done the right thing. Our vet had told us that it was possible he would have a seizure and not come out of it, and we certainly didn't want that.
Tiggy's DNA results for Fanconi
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MALY KSIAZE NEXT GERMANIKA tested PROBABLY CARRIER OF FANCONI SYNDROME
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Well, that is good…. while we would all like to have clears, at least you know that you will never have to worry about Fanconi and you can always have the direct test done when it is available just to make sure.... and he can still be bred to clears....
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Good News…...woo hoo!:)
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I had a feeling that he would at least be a carrier because his father is. I'm so glad to know that he's not affect, and it's good news for his mother too.
