My Chumley, Basenji/chi mix
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wrote on 11 Jan 2012, 22:20 last edited by
This is Chumley. He was given to me by a family that didn't speak much English and thought they had a chihuahua. I grew up with a Basenji and over the month I've had him, more and more Basenji characteristics are showing up. Such as talking all the time, nipping me in the butt if I am not paying attention to him, playing with my hand by bringing his front foot down the side of his head, not listening to me most of the time, hating water, tearing up beds, tissue, paper. Everything I remember my first Basenji doing. Except he does bark…a lot. lol Noisy little guy. Other chihuahua traits I see is he walks like a dream and loves playing with my chi pack (I have a small chihuahua rescue), He's not snarky even though I have a lot of dogs here right now. He does bark a lot at my daughter's lab/pit mix, but doesn't try to fight him. He is just a delight.
barking at me
Getting a little dominante with the other dogs. He's been neutered now and this behavior has dissapeared
Such a sweet face
Cute curly tail
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wrote on 11 Jan 2012, 23:48 last edited by
Wonderful pictures!
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wrote on 12 Jan 2012, 02:59 last edited by
He is adorable :)
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wrote on 12 Jan 2012, 03:05 last edited by
Such a cute little character!
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wrote on 12 Jan 2012, 19:04 last edited by
Thank you, It's so weird for me seeing a chocolate colored basenji mx. My first basenji when I was growing up in the 1960's was a red and white. I think a chocolate and white basenji would look kinda cool. lol
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wrote on 13 Jan 2012, 20:18 last edited by
A couple of pics of Chumley running around the back yard with a couple of my chihuahuas.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2012, 21:10 last edited by
LOL!! He is a cute little guy running around with the others. I don't see much B in him at all, except his tail. But he is sure a cutie!
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wrote on 13 Jan 2012, 22:22 last edited by
Yeah, he doesn't look a lot like a basenji, but, boy, he has a lot of the mannerisms of the breed.
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wrote on 14 Jan 2012, 13:52 last edited by
He is precious! He is smaller like a Chi, but I guess that is a good thing because he can't do much table surfing, lol. Is he a chewer? If he is I would suggest keeping lots of Nylabones for powerful chewers, Kongs or pigs ears for them to chew on as they typcially love to chew and will chew on anything in sight given the opportunity, I hope you enjoy him for a long time. He is beautiful!
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wrote on 14 Jan 2012, 18:42 last edited by
Chumley is really really cute! I don't see much basenji in there other than that curly tail, but whatever, he's adorable. There's a little chocolate chihuahua in our neighborhood, and his color is just like Chumley's.
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wrote on 14 Jan 2012, 20:14 last edited by
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.
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