@jengosmonkey
LOL this is a really important convo to be having! I'm honored that it takes place on my thread 😆 and yes, I absolutely agree with the points y'all are making.
People do need to know where their pups are coming from and whether they were responsibly bred. To think of it coldly, I wouldn't buy a house without looking into its history and possible problems, or I might face ridiculous stress, expense, and emotional trauma from subsequent issues that come up later. As a consumer, one should do their homework not only on the breed but on the breeder.
A breeder who produces puppies carelessly is basically a horrible human being in my book. It was a huge, thoroughly thought out moral decision for me not to adopt but to buy a purebred puppy, as I've worked with rescues before. I took this step with the possible goal of being a custodian. If a breeder is irresponsible in all the aforementioned ways, not only are they producing dogs with a higher possibility of suffering, muddying this ancient breed, and swindling people, they are needlessly taking potential homes away from dogs that need one AND frequently causing dogs to be abandoned! If there weren't any PMs or BYBs, imagine how many people would get schooled by rescue folk and responsible breeders into taking dog-parenting seriously before they ever took one home!
Sorry for the rant; I COMPLETELY understand the internal screaming that happens within some of you when you find out a pup is from a mill or crap breeder. If people like you and I keep yelling about it, we will change a few minds, which make all the difference to a few dogs which is better than no dogs 🙂
Hello from Chicago
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Hi all! I live in Chicago with my 8 month old Basenji, Maddux!
- Cait
- Cait
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Welcome
Maddux is adorable…
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Can I ask where you got your b from?
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Are those fawns real???
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What great pictures, welcome. Who did you get your B-Boy from? Many of us are related by our Basenjis.
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Maddux is a cutie and those ARE fawns!!!! What a sweet boy!
I grew up in Chicago too….northwest side.
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Maddux is certainly beautiful - great that he did not choose to chase the fawns. When we first got our little girl people said she looked like a little deer - I've often thought of "painting" spots on her for Halloween.
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HAHAHAHA!!! I was just down at a dog show and the lady I was competing against said that two of her B's took down a full grown deer! Sorry the picture is kind of ironic. He is a beautiful boy.
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I had 4 deer grazing 10 feet from my laundry room window this morning, all 6 dogs were standing in the window watching silently. Ten minutes later the neighborhood cat wandered thru and the whippet alarm went off. Guess she does not see the deer as prey, but the cat would not last 5 minutes with her
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Welcome to you and Maddux. He's very good around the fauns. They wouldn't have stood a chance against mine.
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WOW - those are some amazing pics! welcome. please let us know your secret for socializing your basenji with fawns. Mine obsess over the neighbor's goats.
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WOW - those are some amazing pics! welcome. please let us know your secret for socializing your basenji with fawns. Mine obsess over the neighbor's goats.
LOL, mine would have been more the crazy over trying to get to them… but then again, maybe not. We were at a lure trial and there were cows grazing in the field next to the lure field. Both girls were totally into trying to talk to the critters... so far as to lick their noses through the fence.
