Calypso Basenjis Information

Calypso as a breeding program continues to evolve. We have imported some Australian/English/Finnish bloodlines to blend with our old-old American ones, and are excited thus far to see what has been produced. We are tremendously excited at the prospects that the University of Missouri Veterinary School researchers, in cooperation with the efforts of fellow professionals at the Nat'l Institutes of Health (NIH), may be able to identify the DNA marker for Fanconi. Since carrier genes and affected genes are everywhere in the US and world population, being able to make INFORMED BREEDING choices will be the ultimate luxury, as well as a challenge. Will people still continue to breed the winning flavor-of-the-month even in the face of a genetic nightmare? We'll see, and hope that folks will take the higher road. In April 2007, Kevin learned that he would be transferred by the Air Force to a long term tour of duty with NATO in Geilenkirchen, Germany. He and Melissa began preparing for the move and Susan began preparing for one of her own. The dogs would by necessity stay in the States and revert to her ownership. Old Missouri friends extended an invitation to return to the old stomping grounds, albeit on the opposite side of the state, and so she and the Calypso basenjis headed West. After an unbelievable and soap opera-esque series of events that became an ongoing saga (Susan is pretty sure that her friends shuddered when her cell phone number showed up on caller ID's all over the country that folks were wondering... 'what could possibly have happened in the last 24 hours????').... anyway, Calypso basenjis finally has their own place once again, hard by I-29 North just two miles up the road from Faucett, Missouri and good friend Dallas Hunt of Lacada basenjis. We've got an acre of only mildly sloping ground (around here, that's unheard of since the landscape is wildly rollercoasting) just 8 miles south of St. Joe and 58 miles from the Government Center in downtown Kansas City where Susan works 'way too many long ...