Basenji Meetups & Events

also you can check ASFA and AKC for Lure events www.asfa.org and www.akc.org

Hi Andrea, Please look at the previous post with the event contact info. You can email the event coordinator if you would like to register. Please respect our forum guidelines and do not post personal contact information. Forum guidelines: http://www.basenjiforums.com/showthread.php?t=374

great weather in kirkland today (5/15) does anyone want to meet at a park for our B's to play?

Steffie, We didn't end up going (long story…but our houseguests were still in town and then we had to take Jackpot to the vet for what we thought was a UTI...but turned out to not be a big deal)...so no pictures. I DEFINATELY want to go next year though! I'm sad we missed it. Maybe we can arrange a B-get-together sometime this summer with you and Michael (& our B's of course)! How was the show in Brighton? You were showing right?

I would LOVE to go but I waited a little too long to request those days off :(

Wow, I would love to see a bulldog doing agility, what a hoot! Glad you had a good time. Anne

Yeh, if I had known, we might have made it!! Hope you do it again and post your pics from the meet up!!

The rest of you that show I am sure have experienced this - when the judge is someone that values what I've brought to the ring - my dog is horrid and doesn't win. When I know that the judge likes something different than what I've got that day - my dog is perfect and doesn't win. Ah well - different dog show different day different outcome. I know from my vantage point in the center of the ring that sometimes after I judge and I look at the catalog - many times animals I have adored before - just don't have a good day or show their best. One of my friends was the Breed judge of some of the working breeds at Westminster and she offered this little tidbit of information. The camera location on the down and back was really off to the angle a bit so LOTS of the dogs that acutally looked good - looke horrid on TV. In addition she said that the rings were horridly small. The great danes could hardly get to a trot.

OH! You guys are so lucky!! I was totally eyeing him on BRAT!! Post pics! I miss seeing his sweet little face! ;)

Did you mention shopping??? :D :D …ok looks like I need to make that trip!

thanks for the dog park link, there are two close to me.

Hi Quercus! I was SO disappointed that we couldnt make it, but the reason why made up for it, we were driving to chicago to pick up Meeka who we adopted from BRAT.. Saturday was the only day we could get her, and we left at 6am and didnt get back till 9pm.. darn snow storm! We wanted to go sunday but again the snow, and we didnt want to leave her the first day she was home! How did the show go?? i meant to post saying i wasnt going to make it, but i was getting all the plans ready to pick up meeka and it slipped my mind..

@ChaseandZahrasmom: Is anyone going to be there? BBoy is the wife going? I think she's done till March.

Very cute! We have to act quick at our house too…any fuzzy santa clothing gets shredded on sight!

The gang in the picture "Basenji and rescue friends" where certainly entertaining but at the same time sad. One of the club members works for a Vet. Puppy mills bring in dogs for various reasons and sometimes after the Vet care is completed the Puppy mills figure they have too large of a bill and just don't come back to pick them up. This lady takes them in and she keeps them with her Basenji's. The Pug had both legs broken, and currently cannot use it's front legs, but somehow get's around…....it's a touch sad to watch. The little Chi wha wha, had a broken leg and was in a cast. Hopefully it will heal correctly and it can walk without problem.....they just don't know. Good to know there's folks that have a kind heart and are willing to take in such sad cases that no one else wants. My son and I couldn't help looking at them in there and comparing them to the toys on the Isle of misfit toys from the Christmas cartoon. They really where cute with they're basenji foster mom.