Thank you, Rhonda. We will try not to get our feelings hurt that she isn't ears-back, tail-wagging at us all the time!
Sky Hunter is Happy to Meet You!
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@donc I live in Ohio, and have one basenji-ocean experiece:
Years ago my husband and I drove to San Francisco, up the coast to the Basenji National in Oregon.
On the drive up we walked the dogs on a beach, no people around - perfect for walking them on a leash. When they got about 25 ft from the water's edge, they made it very clear they were going NO closer.
We finally figured it out - there was seaweed, or whatever it's called out there, all over the beach and it looked like the snakes they'd encountered in our yard.
Ohio dogs - go figure!Sky Hunter, are you a character? I've heard, and found it to be true, that tris are characters - but fun!
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@sky-hunter - Is the DNA study from OFA on the Mom? Can you send it to me and I can review for you? You can send to my email, use the link below to my website and you can find my email address. Glad that you are going to have him tested. That is a good thing, regardless. Fingers crossed for a good outcome! Note that the PRA-N is for night blindness, not Fanconi and the N means that the test results were normal. (CRd) - this is the one for Fanconi and means that this dog is a carrier.
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I have no descendents listed for Skywalker N Mibre's Dark Knight - his breeder is sadly no longer with us, but I will try to find out who he was bred to.
I have sent an email to a co-breeder who has been sorting out the Mibre kennel records etc with co-breeders and am sure she will come back to me with anything she can find out about Mom.
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@rugosab said in Sky Hunter is Happy to Meet You!:
I 've heard, and found it to be true, that tris are characters - but fun!
Tris are special, rugosa, AND they know it ! My now 6 month old Mku is a tri . . . as was the mother of my home-bred Hoover. We have always tri-ed to have a tri in the house.
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@daureen Thank you! I was reading in one of your posts that you were getting neutered and had to wear a cone, I have a cone on right now because we were attacked by another dog when we were going for a walk on the sidewalk! I have had it on since the 28th and still have another 10 days! It is very important they don't lick the wound, even if you think it is good for them because their lick is like a scrape lick and it opens up the wound. So I take it off when he is calm and I am able to watch him but if he starts to get too wild I put the collar back on, it has become almost a training method, he knows if there is no biting or licking then no collar. Good luck!
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@zande - Totally agree, Tris are different, the clowns of the Basenji world... All Basenjis are wonderful but I have always been smitten with Tris... I have had 2 all Tri litters!
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@zande thank you so much! I just sent you a e-mail with the info I have!
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I have received a reply already, Sky Hunter. My correspondent is contacting her co-breeder and is confident she will be able to help ! She will come back to me and as I will have your email address we can email about the pedigree and hopefully we will soon have something concrete for the database and that you can share with the forum !
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This is almost the closest I have ever gotten to the shore, back when I was a puppy (5 months ago) and mom would let me run free on the beach. The only other time was when she held me and tried taking me in with her! If you see the pictures of the waves that day oh boy! My mom is just like me though, very persistent so I probably will end up going in the water at some point! -
@sky-hunter said in Sky Hunter is Happy to Meet You!:
This is almost the closest I have ever gotten to the shore, back when I was a puppy (5 months ago) and mom would let me run free on the beach. The only other time was when she held me and tried taking me in with her! If you see the pictures of the waves that day oh boy! My mom is just like me though, very persistent so I probably will end up going in the water at some point!
You'll need to tell your mom that this is not going to happen so she can get used to the idea. LOL Would be great though if we had a surfer boy Basenji! That would be a hoot.
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You are a beautiful dog as your picture at the beach shows. Be proud of you who you are!
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I have a photo that is only 1.24mb and I get this message
Error Request Entity Too LargeIt shows my 2 b's (one happen's to be a tri boy) in the Pacific ocean at Cannon Beach, Oregon. Don't know why it
won't let me upload that photo. Course my dogs were on a leash as they have never ever been to Oregon before and I just wanted to make sure that I didn't loose them and would have to return to California without them. We will be going back again hopefully next year; but I think my red and white boy Zak is 15.5 right now, may not like the long trip. We will see. I'm sad that I couldn't load the photo.Sky Hunter is a beautiful tri.
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@basenjimom2 said in Sky Hunter is Happy to Meet You!:
I have a photo that is only 1.24mb and I get this message
Error Request Entity Too LargeIt shows my 2 b's (one happen's to be a tri boy) in the Pacific ocean at Cannon Beach, Oregon. Don't know why it
won't let me upload that photo.Because it is too big! Try downsizing it. For reference, the picture at the top of this thread is 421 KB, and the one on the beach is only 32 KB. If you get the file size down under 500 KB it should load.
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@basenjimom2 Oh we would love to see it! I took a screen shot while the picture was horizontal holding my phone vertical so it would be smaller but visable then cropped it. That worked for me....good luck!
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There are many ways of reducing the size of the file. You can do it with most photo or graphics programs, of which there are lots of free ones available on line if you don't have one on your computer. If using a phone, just email the photo to yourself, choosing medium or small as the size to be sent, now you have a downsized file to upload. Easy peasey. Or you can use something like this. Just one of several solutions readily available.
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Thank you eeeefarm for the link to resize!!
Ok. This is at Cannon Beach, Oregon. Red and White is Zak and he was 13.5 and Mr.T (tri) was 6. T likes to wade in the water on "his" terms! Zak however has never ever gotten in a mud puddle, let alone the ocean, so this was first for him. You can tell by the look on his face that he was NOT happy!! But we had fun!!!
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This is at the same beach in Oregon. Zak DID NOT want to go into the water! So as I was pulling, he was backing away and his gentle leader slipped off over his head! It was a heart stopping moment for me as he is semi deaf and can't hear me, and certainly not over the roar of the ocean. Yes, he beat feat back to dry ground but I caught up with him and the other photo of them in the water is the after effect of the leader coming off.
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My Basenji femle does not like the water at all, that's why I take her to the vet office for her baths. Charles
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You BATH a Basenji !?!?! Poor creature ! You will be taking all the natural oils out of its pelt. They are self cleaning dogs -
Mine - up to 8 for years and now down to two through natural progression over 39 years - have had a total of fewer than the fingers on both my hands between them all. Hoover, now 12, has never had a bath. Her recently deceased older half-brother had one back when he was about 2. But no more in his 13.5 years.
I have to ask about the ethics of your vet - to agree to bathing a Basenji. Must be in it for the money unless there is some underlying condition which you haven't told us about and which warrants frequent bathing ?
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Basenjis are all over the map when it comes to water. Of my five, two would go swimming voluntarily. The others would swim under protest. I do think if you are going to be around water, in a boat, or a swimming pool for example, it is good to give your dog the experience of swimming so that if he does inadvertently fall in he won't panic. Not all dogs are natural swimmers. Of my two that swam without protest, one would leap off the dock in pursuit of water skiiers! She could have competed in dock diving if I could find a miniature water skiier to tempt her.
