Seize the Gene
Friends of Frazzle
Frazzle is easily one of the most talented dogs running in agility today. Not only has he earned his ADCH and is 1 QQ away from a Mach, Frazzle is an International Champion, Winning the USDAA International Steeplechase in 2005. Unfortunately, Frazzle's agility career was cut short when he was diagnosed with Canine Epilepsy. The doctors are doing everything they can to find the gene that causes this horrible disease. Money is needed to continue their research.
Tinna, Frazzle's mom, has this to say:
"I had a
dream, the dream to be on the AKC Agility World Team. I had spent four and a
half years of my life training, showing and conditioning my first Border Collie,
Frazzle, to compete at this level.
When I first started showing Frazzle, everyone thought he was a poor jumper, and
he was just too out of control to be consistent. Hearing those comments only
made me more determined to train him harder. With the help of some great
instructors, who had been on the AKC World Team (Linda Mecklenberg, Ann Braue,
Jen Pinder, Sue Tovino etc.), Frazzle and I started coming together as a team.
Two weeks before the 2006 AKC World Team Tryouts, Frazzle had a grand mal
seizure while running agility. To watch your best friend go through something
like that is just sickening. After several veterinary consultations including
two neurologists, Frazzle seized again while running agility just seven days
later (just five days before Tryouts).
I pulled him from the competition. Now, I have a new dream with the help of my
friends, Marisa Capozzo and Anne Bentley, who lost her beloved "Ski" to this
horrible disease (http://www.agilityecbc.com/page10.html) – to stop the seizures
and raise money for research. Currently, “Friends of Frazzle” have raised almost
$5,000 as well as collected hundreds of blood samples to “Seize the Gene.”
Won't you help us raise money to pin point the gene that causes this horrible disease?
Seize the Gene Bracelets!
All the money generated from the sales of the Seize the Gene Bracelets go directly to Epilepsy Research.
For more information please e-mail Frazzle's mom Tinna at: