The potassium pills are aspirin sized so they shouldn't be too bad. We are planning on sticking them in little pieces of chicken liver or something along those lines. The powder would be nice but with 2 B's, you don't have any way of gauging if he is getting all of it. Another thing we are looking into is a pill grinder for the other pills since we aren't supposed to grind the potassium but are OK to do it with the others. We are going to use the EVO canned food to make a meatball or something like that. We will let you know how that goes. Thanks again for all of the advice!

Argh, 16 pills a day! Oh well he's worth it

I guess all I can say about the color of our dogs is that Pepper who's sire is Budlight king is a Tri and Ed of course is a red n white. I dont think we have to worry too much about Ed taking ANY pills, you see Ed is a P.I.G. He will eat anything that touches the floor or is anywhere near his bowl. We have given him pills before and he swallows then before he even knew he had them in his mouth. We have already started to adjust the diet, we purchased the EVO dog food for him and he loves it(wish my checkbook felt the same, but he's worth it) We have had all of the blood work and things of that nature done and fortunately we found 2 Vets in the Madison area that have dealt with faconi and are working together on Ed. They are aware of the vitamin/supplement regimen a few of you have mentioned and they have recommended it. We are waiting on the results of a couple of the tests and will be starting the protocol within the next day or 2 I suspect.

I have tried to upload a picture for my profile and add some pics to an album but i get a security token error and unable to put any up. I let the Admin know so hopefully soon. We are breaking down the protocol with our vet since Ed is so early in the syndrome, the supplementation is going to be much less than the entire protocol which is good. we are VERy nervous since we want to do everything right for him. Again thanks for all the kind words. Just an update on the Pedigrees if anyone has any information they can pass along: Eds was Hestekin Hills Flower and Sire was Budlight Bud, Peppers was Hestekin Hills Love My Mindy and Budlight King.

Thank you all for the words of encouragement and support. I am at work right now so i don't have the papers in front of me but Ed's parents are flower and Budlight Bud. I will look when i get home and post both of my B's parents name. I have not contacted Teresa on this as of yet, however my wife is pretty upset and I would imagine in a fit of rage she may be contacting her. Ed is 6 1/2 years old and is doing well. talking to the vet it seems we have caught it early enough that there hasn't been any or minimal kidney damage so we are thankful for that. We will be getting the results of the rest of the urine analysis and blood work in the next couple of days so we are keeping our fingers crossed. I have no doubt that he will lead a good life, we feel pretty confident that since we did catch it early that he will live a full life and hit the B500 running along with his Aunt Pepper… We have a DNA test that we are going to do as well but since we already know Ed has it we are going to use the test for our tri Pepper. We used our test strips on her and she came up clean but we want to make sure that she is good and clear. Again, thanks for the words of encouragement and we will keep all of you posted.

We purchased 2 basenjis from Hestekin Hills and found out today that our red/white male has Fanconi syndrome. its a sad day in our household right now. However the vet has let us know that we have caught it early enough that there isnt any kidney damage at this point. We are searching for all the information on the syndrome that we can get our hands on. thank you and we look forward to chatting with you all.