Member Introductions

Please contact the BRAT Admin staff at http://www.basenjirescue.org/asp/contactus.asp . Debbi J.

Thanks to all of you for your kind worlds and welcomes,as soon as my friend translate for me my questions,so they don't get lost in miss spelling and miss understanding i will post them,and of course the pictures of my beautiful little angels :)

Yes to the suggestions to get her checked and also spay her. Aggression may not necessarily be vicious but rather reaction to the scary situation she encountered. It can be dealt with through consistent and regular training (with treats to start) - you might try the Fenzi Dog Academy online classes (they have a great class for retraining reactive dogs). But regardless you need to be more aware of her surroundings and not put her in a situation that may be scary to her or at least get her attention back on you (treats) when you can't avoid the situation.

Welcome Aileen and congratulations on your pup. Please post some pictures! :)

Profile image uploading seems to be working now. I saw that folks brought this up with the forum administrators, so thanks!

They are absolutely adorable to live with! People warned us when we got our first pup (we have mature two sisters now) but we fell in love with the breed and have no regrets. You have to be patient, though, with lots of humour, because they WILL test you.

@betterrthings Is he a trindle?

Thank you!

Couple of photos posted in the Show Off section.

I think they just look solid so my mind saw "bigger." I have one of the Wimaumau rescue giants (44 pounds), but even my 2 previous gals were far from petite... about 26 to 28 pounds. My dream of a petite 18 pound basenji just never happened, lol.

Love the expression on Ivee... yep, judging you! :) Tag and Taj are handsome!

Welcome back! Hope you like the new forum design.

So glad things are going better! Sadly, if a cat walked into our house, Cara would try to kill it, so it's great your dog thinks it's a new friend :) If you look for positive trainers, you should find ones who are consistent but positive in training methods.

WELCOME! Is your pup from a breeder or rescue? If a breeder, many here have related dogs so it's fun to see the connections. My girl is a rescue, so only the people from the same hoarder they were taken from are related. Like Alex said, PLEASE post pics when you can.

@DebraDownSouth aww sorry you were unable to get the little one. Thank you! She definitely keeps me on my toes!

Welcome to the forum. I am very sad to see a 3 mo old post just appearing. No idea if you are still checking in, but welcome and please know the old forum had been having major issues in not showing new posts-- it isn't that we aren't friendly.

Welcome to the forum! Please forgive the delay in welcomes, the forum has been hiccuping and not showing new posts for a while. Hopefully the new format will fix that!

Please keep posting new pics :)

Where in Illinois are you. We are in Evanston and have a 2 year old basenji named Jesse.

Thanks for the replies to my "Hello". I was wondering if I had walked into a ghost town…...seems there is a problem with the site at times.