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.
Fanconi testing results
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My dog's blood tests came back probably clear and probably carrier. Do I need to continue to do the Diastix testing?
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My dog's blood tests came back probably clear and probably carrier. Do I need to continue to do the Diastix testing?
So you have one of each? And no, you do not have to continue with the Diastix testing, only if they came back as Affected….
Good for you and your "kids"...... yea!!!!!!!!!!!!! no worries about Fanconi
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Congrats for the results!!!
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My boy came back with the probably clear reading and my girl came back with the probably carrier reading. Well that's good news that I don't have to be the pee catcher anymore…...
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Again that is great that you don't have to worry about Fanconi and that super
… but only goes to show that it is so important to test.... I (sorry) don't remember where you got your Basenjis... but I am guessing the sire and dam's were not tested... so the Sire and Dam of your girl, one will be a carrier at best and one clear, or both can be carrier, or one could be affected and one carrier. Hopefully you will let the breeder know that they need to test before breeding again... as there is every chance that they could be producing affecteds.
Even your boy could have a carrier parent... and be clear or worse both parents could be carriers and have a clear...Or you could have bred your girl to a carrier and produced affecteds....
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Fantastic! Thats great news. happy dance
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Congratulations on your good news