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.
DNA Fanconi Test
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Ch KLASSIC TRI-BAL VIXEN AT RUGOSA
Results: PROBABLY CLEAR/NORMAL FOR FANCONI SYNDROME
Just in today… while we expected these results as her Sire and Dam were tested Clear... nice to have it verified.... since we are planning a breeding this Fall, pending all the other health tests
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Congrats Pat! It's nice to have a verification on your beliefs.
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Congrats Pat! It's nice to have a verification on your beliefs.
It is.. especially for the linkage test…. but now on to the rest of the results... from health testing.... all ready getting excited about co-breeding this litter this fall..... and it is only April
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Yay! Glad for the positive results
