Thanks everyone! We couldn't be happier, he is everything we could have asked for! Still training for the therapy route, but we certainly won't force it on him if he isn't enjoying it. He wants a sister…I mean WE want him to have a sister :)... but we're probably going to hold off another couple years before doing so! Especially since we may possibly be moving in the next year or so.

@vickilb:

So precious!!!!!

Ryan is probably the coolest little boy I know!!!!

I totally agree! Ryan is so in tune with animals. How wonderful to be that way at his age!

Thanks all!

They are so great together and it is so much fun to see our little girl develop!
She became much darker red and pretty upstanding ears, her tail needs a little bit growing and sometimes standing in the air like a antenna 😃
Her personality is so good, I am so in love with her… she sometimes looks at me and wants to say "Mommy, you have to stop right NOW with those kissies... give me someting I can chew on otherwise I will eat your nose" haha

I am going to post some new picture right now... pictures that made me cry of happiness....

I have noticed another basenji trait this week, Chumley chewed up TWO dog beds. In the two years I've had this chihuahua rescue, only one bed had been holed by the dogs digging in it, and this week, Chumley ate up two beds. lol Got to love him.

Oh, they are absolutely adorable! Their coloring is so striking. I'm late to the party, but congrats to the Basenji and human mommies for their little bundles of joy!

perfect excuse not to make the bed!

Lovely pictures. He's very agile.

Any new pics? Very curious as to what the puppies are developing into…

we love our dog parks! they are all nice and fun. thankfully we usually have level headed people go that own lovely dogs. the girls love going to the parks.

thank you for the comments. i love my girlies so much 🙂 theres nuver a dull moment lol

Hope you guys don't get tired of looking at pics of possible Basenji mixes! This is Rio and I have tried to narrow his breed type to Basenji - Toy Fox/Rat Terrier - Chi - and Shephard. I keep seeing more Basenji than anything else but tell me otherwise! Thanks for your input!!!

Snappy

Sorry to hear about her tragic beginnings. Looks like she has a really wonderful home now!

Thanks agilebasenji!

Sissy, that depends of the Basenji and his personality 🙂 Our Chafuko learned that very fast! With him I also train with a "official" dummy and within one training session he understood that he coul not "hurt" the dummy, by biting in the dummie..
Buana doesn't want to learn that and still keeps shaking the dummie.

To bring it back is easy to train with a little snack, if he likes to eat 😃

great chilly pictures 🙂

@Maya:

Maya has been a brilliant mum, absolutely adores her babies but wasnt OTT with them, she did fantastic. Popped all 4 out in under 2 hours as well!

The tri is my keeper 🙂

I looked up dad's pedigree and he is related to my Franie!

Lovely picture and they're so patient. I have the same problem when I pick up my camera!

These are lovely pictures of your charming girls.

Yeah, he loves to chew. Right now it's defluffing tennis balls and cracking them open that entertains him. And chewing on sticks. I do have a kong he loves. High quality treats like pigs ears and such wouldn't do well here as there would be fights over them by all the dogs here, even if I gave each one one, they always want that which another dog has. I do have a few nylabones but he isn't too interested in them at the moment.

Yeahhh - pretty typical basenji behavior for his age. I gave up on that type of bed, and now they both have big rectangular stuffed beds with fake sheepskin on top. I put a blanket over their beds, and now that they are 3 and 3 1/2, if they decide they are going to chew on anything, it will be the blanket. Shaye, the younger one, also likes another dog blanket totally covering her, and once in a while she'll get up with that still on her, hanging like a train, because it gets stuck on her tail - looks adorable, embarrasses her, so she sometimes bites that one too.

@Buana:

Will you all believe me when I say that I am the worlds proutest, happiest mom 😃

I certainly DO believe you! You guys are a most glorious pack! The pictures of Ryan sleeping with the dogs are priceless. 🙂

thanks for your comments everyone, he's a bit of a one 😉