Does my dog look basenji?
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:27 last edited by
This beautiful basenji has to be a purebred. Upright ears, wrinkles, very alert, gorgeous color.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 07:11 last edited by
@ScewbyDoo your dog is beautiful! But to me he looks a little bit big for a Basenji? I'm not a professional either, just going by my own Basenji and his parents that I met.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 08:50 last edited by
Koa was a typical Pukkanut ! A lovely dog and a very worthy Champion.
This little person is cute whatever he is. Love him for that.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 13:39 last edited by
Your pup is gorgeous. He is what we call a "Beautiful Blend", my vet calls them "Lucky Little Street Dogs" because they look just enough like a purebred something that they are easily adopted. The only way to be for certain of your boy's breeding is to have DNA testing done.
My Roxy looks very similar. She was presented to me as a Basenji, but I knew at first glance that she was not.
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replied to MrsCastro on 4 Aug 2020, 13:45 last edited by Zande 8 Apr 2020, 13:46
@mrscastro said in Does my dog look basenji?:
She was presented to me as a Basenji, but I knew at first glance that she was not.
She's a lovely looking wee girl anyway !
I love your vet's description of these little 'accidental' breeds - so apt.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 22:08 last edited by
@ScewbyDoo that's cool! What a combo! I thought she had some sort of pitbull. What is her personality like? She looks very kind.
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replied to MrsCastro on 6 Aug 2020, 01:03 last edited by
@mrscastro dang that's bigger than my pup by a large margin! Do you have any assumptions of what she's mixed with?
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replied to Alibobo on 6 Aug 2020, 01:07 last edited by
@alibobo
She's the sweetest dog that you'll ever meet after you get to know her, but she's very shy and timid I don't know what happened to her in the past but it has taken her a long time to understand punishment. She has those basenji traits of being stubborn and stuff but the first time she tried to pee in the house I took her outside and it was okay. Then the next time she tried to snap on me so I gave her a little tap on the butt (no harder than how you would hit a kids hand if you caught then trying to touch something they weren't supposed to) and you would swear I hit her as hard as I could and she was yelping and running away. I have speculations of her not getting enough attention and maybe being abused in the past because she used to never want to come out of her crate either for hours on end and now she hates her crate. She's came a long way but she's still very protective over my girlfriend and I. -
replied to ScewbyDoo on 7 Aug 2020, 12:16 last edited by
@scewbydoo One of our vet techs volunteers with the shelter where she was born. Her mom was labeled as Jack Russell. Her goofy nature makes me think Boxer mix, but who knows. The shelters down in S. TX aren't the most accurate at breed identification. I once had a shelter in San Antonio send me a picture of a brindle Basenji they wanted me to pull...it was a calico cat.
Regardless of breed, Roxy is home.
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