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.
Lukuru retesting results - Fanconi Syndrome
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Using the temporary linked marker test on the 10 Lukuru's resulted as :
Lukuru na Liboso Mopaya "Probably Clear"
Lukuru Amisi / Misi "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Lema / Lema "Probably Clear"
Lukuru MPale / MPale "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Constellation Cassiopeia "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Constellation Libra "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Constellation Orion "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Constellation Pegasus "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Constellation Perseus "Indeterminate"
Lukuru Constellation Ursa "Indeterminate"Dr. Johnson was very confident all along that we would have confirmation that all of the Lukuru's were clear, but we always respected the BCOA recommendation to treat the Indeterminate reading as a "Carrier."
Most recently, the four native imported foundation stock were retested on new DNA swabs for the direct gene. The six F1 full African littermates were retested from stored DNA.
The results of the direct gene test on the Lukuru's has found :
Lukuru na Liboso Mopaya Clear / Normal
Lukuru Amisi / Misi Clear / Normal
Lukuru Lema / Lema Clear / Normal
Lukuru MPale / MPale Clear / Normal
Lukuru Constellation Cassiopeia for Antefaa Clear / Normal
Lukuru Constellation Libra Clear / Normal
Lukuru Constellation Orion Clear / Normal
Lukuru Constellation Pegasus Clear / Normal
Lukuru Constellation Perseus Clear / Normal
Lukuru Constellation Ursa Clear / Normal -
Woo Hoo, Jo!!!!
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Oh Jo, wow, gotta say I have one HUGE smile on my face. What a start for the Thanksgiving holiday. WTG!
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YAY!! Nice to see they all tested clear!