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Ray R

Ray R

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Focus on #'s 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Translations for the primitives among us:

2) "Barkless" means you spend more time listening than yapping. - Shut up and listen to me - LOL

5) Time spent napping in the sun is well spent. - "Take five", you are getting "wound around the axle"
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6) "Independent" means doing your own thing and doing it well. It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it.
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7) You might have to climb a fence to get where you need to go. - Getting there is half the fun.
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8) If silence is golden, yodels are priceless. - When you post something dumb, it's hard to take it back, or so I've been told - LOL

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H.P. Lovedrafts said:
Have you ever read the short story "Weep No More, My Lady"?
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Yes, and we used to have the VCR tape but gave it away.

When we got our first dog it was a Basenji. I got her at the pet store, she was 3 months old and liked the cats in the store. We had her 16 years. I put her through obedience school, and she was "lackadaisical" on her best days.

I took her to lure coursing before they acknowledged Basenjis. She was only 14" tall and only weighed 16 pounds but it turned out she was one of the fastest dogs in the group and that group included a lot of Afghans and Whippets. She won her first race against an Afghan hound and made a name for herself with the Miami Gazehound association. She made a lot of friends for the breed.

She was a real "stinker", even though they have almost no body odor, but the family liked her a lot. She kept getting out of our fenced back yard. She could have easily jumped the fence, it was only 3 feet high, but she chose to go under it (typical Basenji obstinance) until she found one of the fence posts was not fastened at the bottom. Then she just shoved her head in and the post swung sideways letting her through and then returned to it's original position. It took me much longer to find that opening then it took her. Thats fairly typical of life with Basenjis.
 
Uncle Ray, you dog gone crazy for sure!

Somehow I see you digging for dinosaur bones in the backyard

with your doggies sitting around eating beef tacos and beans.

BTW that breed is notoriously unruly yes?
 
BigNastyFish said:
Uncle Ray, you dog gone crazy for sure!

Somehow I see you digging for dinosaur bones in the backyard

with your doggies sitting around eating beef tacos and beans.

BTW that breed is notoriously unruly yes?
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Not so much unruly as independent to a fault. A common joke among Basenji owners is "you don't own the dog, they own you" - LOL

They can be endearing to a far greater degree than other breeds.

I recommend going to the Basenji Rescue and Transport page (BRAT) - really - LOL
They have a group of owner's stories about their dogs and it is categorized in it's title - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or GBU. It is entertaining reading and it's all true - enjoy.
 
Love your Basenjis Ray. We had one when I was younger and she had such an interesting personality. Very active and fast as hell, but loved to just chill out with us. The meter reader from the power company scared her once and the sound she made was nothing that I've heard before or heard since, kind of like a kid screaming lol
 
BIGTom- said:
Love your Basenjis Ray. We had one when I was younger and she had such an interesting personality. Very active and fast as hell, but loved to just chill out with us. The meter reader from the power company scared her once and the sound she made was nothing that I've heard before or heard since, kind of like a kid screaming lol
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Basenjis can actually scream and when they do, they sound like a human baby - its eerie.
 
Ray R said:
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Focus on #'s 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Translations for the primitives among us:

2) "Barkless" means you spend more time listening than yapping. - Shut up and listen to me - LOL

5) Time spent napping in the sun is well spent. - "Take five", you are getting "wound around the axle"
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6) "Independent" means doing your own thing and doing it well. It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it.
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7) You might have to climb a fence to get where you need to go. - Getting there is half the fun.
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8) If silence is golden, yodels are priceless. - When you post something dumb, it's hard to take it back, or so I've been told - LOL

Do
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BigNastyFish said:
damn...gotta get me some of that!

I mean who the hell doesn't dig on a baby scream!

:rolleyes:
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The biggest problems with first time owners are that the Basenji can and will take charge.

My 14", 16 pound female had 1" canines. We still have a pewter cany bowl that has a 1/8" - 3/16" hole in it where she bit it thru. Nobody will be happy with a dog that is smarter than they are.

I recommend that anyone interested in a Basenji to get in touch with a breeder and get a return policy so that if the dog becomes uncontrollable, they can give it back.
 
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