GOD BLESS YOU ONE AND ALL (DONORS TO FRENCHIE's
MEMORIAL)
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN:
CHROMADANE & GRANITE
DANES Present:
Champion CHROMA A KISS FOR
LUCK CD CGC
Frenchie was part of
our "New England contingent." A daughter of Picabo & Cash, CH/CD Frenchie was owned, trained, bred
and shown by Al and Judi Arsenault of Granite Danes. She finished completely owner-handled by Judi Arsenault, gaining
two 4 pt. majors and a 5 pt. major reserve from breeder-judges along the way, then she and Al finished her CD with
two placements, a breed Highest Scoring, and a final 193.5, getting her ranked in the TOP TEN for Obedience in
2004 (Delaney system). She is from Picabo's "Gamble" litter & has carried on the Picabo's legacy.
Frenchie and her siblings are from BISS CH Dreamspinner's Cash-N-Carry x O-NAC NJC CHROMA Trompe L'oeil
CD, OA, NAJ, NJP, TDIA, CGC; puppies from our litter born March 2002. This litter has their own pedigree
page and their own litter page, so check those links out to learn
more on the Gamble litter. Frenchie was bred as a three year old to BISS CH Sasdania's The Navigator (Pilot) and
whelped us a lovely litter from which we kept three puppies shown below.
FRENCHIE was taken unexpectedly weeks shy of her fourth birthday. Unhappily Frenchie died February 8th, 2006,
after several days of being hospitalized for a bone marrow collapse (thrombocytopenia and anemia), and, despite
heroic measures to transfuse her and a rigorous drug regime to try and turn this process around, the vets just
could not get ahead of this terrible process and so she was euthanized to spare her suffering. Either through infection
(with a tick-borne blood parasite for example) or toxin, she developed an unremitting inflammatory process and
suffered a terrible bone marrow suppression as a result. She was strong and she fought for her life hard, but the
agent of her destruction was simply stronger. To the best of our knowledge her illness has no bearing on her children
or her other relatives as to their fitness or health-this is necropsy confirmed. We did make sure tests to check
for things like autoimmune disease were done and they were negative. The vets have assured us they saw nothing
to suggest this illness was the result of breed-related disease. These answers we have, but no more. Surely a horrible
tragedy; noone expects to suddenly lose a perfectly healthy young dog. We thought this spring we'd be breeding
her not burying her..... There won't be another one like her, but thank goodness for her "Fries" as she
left us that legacy at least. NOTE: two other dogs who frequent the same park Frenchie
played in regularly have died recently with the same set of symptoms as Frenchie, despite all efforts at treatment.
Both tested positive for ehrlichia, but didn't respond to treatment. Both ended up with anemia as well as thrombocytopenia.
Tick borne diseases are truly a threat, especially in the New England area. And not all dogs who are infected test
positive.
Fanny & Frenchie together when Frenchie
was a baby....we mourn their loss!
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Come away,
O human child!
To the
waters and the wild.
With a
faery, hand in hand,
For the
world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
VISIT THE ARSENAULTS & THEIR GRANITE
DANES
SEE
FRENCHIE & SISTER JEWEL AT DADANE
