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  • wizardW

    Happy birthday a little late. Hope Champ had fun.

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  • youngandtiredY

    Champ is so cute, Happy Birthday! My furbaby's B-Day is the 3lst. of Jan. and I surely plan on celebrating with her. She too will get a Special meal and gifts of course.

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  • luzmery928L

    he did have a great b-day. though now he is 2 and i guess time for the fanconi testing…..where do i start? i tried looking up the info from past threads using the search engine but there are so many things there I was hoping someone could save me some time and give me a quick reply..thanks

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  • tanzaT

    Go and get urine strip sugar test strips at the Pharmacy. Make sure they are for testing sugar in the urine. Get him to pee on the strip and read the results (more like matching the color to the bottle). Testing should be once a month, however you will note that the test strips are only good for about 6 months… so I always tested about 3 or 4 days in a row... that way I didn't feel like I was wasting them... and really when they start to spill early, some days they will, some days they might not... but spilling is a indication of something being wrong...
    And you might consider have the DNA test done, right now for the next few months they are trying to find the direct marker, if not they will continue with the Linkage test... either way you can use the test to see what his DNA shows for Fanconi

    Pat Fragassi

    Tanza Basenjis

    www.tanzabasenjis.net

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  • luzmery928L

    spilling? like if he's spilling pee?

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  • dmcartyD

    I had one of my basenjis - help me celebrate mine by getting on the table and eating my cake - when no one was looking.

    Could have been worse - I had the huge cake for my sons high school graduation and he did not eat that one.

    (I might have attached a picture) (or maybe not)
    attachment_p_30096_0_wiley-takes-the-cake.jpg

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  • jys1011J

    HAPPY BARROOOOODAY CHAMP!!!!

    Luzmery-you can buy the strips at Duane Reade near you. They usually sell them behind the pharmacy counter. They come in a yellow & white box & it's Diabetic Strip Tests. What you're doing is bascially testing your dog's urine to see if there is any glucose in his urine. If the test strip turns colors then that means he's "spilling" glucose. That's the first sign of Fanconi. Hope this helps :)

    Basenji Mom of C3PO & TOPAZ

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  • luzmery928L

    yes it does..thanks alot. i think i also read to that the first urine of the day is best?

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  • tanzaT

    @luzmery928:

    yes it does..thanks alot. i think i also read to that the first urine of the day is best?

    I have never found that it makes a difference… but you do want to try and catch the stream "mid" pee if you can

    Pat Fragassi

    Tanza Basenjis

    www.tanzabasenjis.net

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  • luzmery928L

    yuck..seems messy..lol..thanks for the great info

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