• I always tell my husband to take my undies away if he sees our B with them except he forgets to check for damage and I've already put two pairs on that were pretty much ripped to nothing. Funny how I'm just standing there and Champ looks at me, like what I don't know how that happened. Have to laugh.


  • My first Basenji (75-92), a tri color never touched or chewed anything. You could leave anything around and it never would touch it. Underwear, pencils, paper, etc. A really good dog! But just never leave the table with your morning toast too close to the edge. (-:


  • When we got Duke, I learned my lesson to get tall hampers and to pick everything up off the floor and put things away where they belong. When we forget . . . say goodby to chewed up item(s); roll up a newspaper and smack self in head for forgetting. 😃


  • Same here. Yet I have a hubby who isn't always so vigilant (and me too, sometimes) I might try the newspaper on us. My first defense–our fault--she is just doing what comes natural. LOL


  • omg i was just going to post about this… i have a tall hamper WITH a cover, and I always know that if Tayda and Lenny are not downstairs with me and all is quiet, that I have to rush upstairs to see what they've gotten into. I went upstairs yesterday and found a bra on the floor, untouched. I knew they put it there, cause it was in the hamper. I was suprised. Then I looked in the crate and there were 3 pairs of underwear in there! You basically couldn't tell they were underwear anymore! They were keeping a stash in there! Those little rascals.


  • Thank God they choose the panties. Cheaper to replace than the bra's. LOL I have the rattan (tall) hamper, and the lid doesn't fit tightly, so that has been a target since the early days. Nothing–Nowhere--seems to be safe if they get a yen for them.


  • When we dry laundry, Peanut will climb in the clothes dryer whenever we open it.:eek: He hops up on the door, walks right in, does a couple of those B-fluffin spins and lays right down in the warm clothes.:D The only way he comes out is if you lift him out.:p Guess he can't hear real well in there.:o I honestly believe he thinks he's a "clothes dryer astronaut" and we all know how hard they are to find nowadays…...:rolleyes:


  • My OJ does that too…. and Mickii.... gggg


  • Sahara has ruined many pairs of underwear, mine mostly. She also loves to get my bras, anything that she can reach with her long legs is fair game for her. I have scratches on my glasses and so does my hubby, and he just got his like a month ago, $800 mine you. I have lost soooooooo many things, some I treasured and can't duplicate. I have everything I can up high so she can't get to it. The other day my back yard looked like someone had rolled it in toilet paper. Sahara got a new roll and went through the doggie door and ran all around with that darn toilet paper. It is all a cat and mouse game with her, if she thinks I will chase her for it, she will try to get it, no matter what it is. Sure is lucky for her that we love her so much, She is real character. All you can do in these circumstances is laugh, I do alot of that these days.


  • Goober will take the clothes out of the hamper and suitcases. He doesn't chew them but he will carry them around the house so he can smell us when we are not there. He hates socks more than squirrels tho.


  • Boy am I glad I keep my bathroom door shut and they can't get the dirty clothes.


  • The more expensive the underwear the better mine seems to like it.


  • I guess we just all have "normal" B's. I have a friend who asks me if I take Valuim to survive…..(The answer is NO.)


  • @Duke:

    When we got Duke, I learned my lesson to get tall hampers and to pick everything up off the floor and put things away where they belong. When we forget . . . say goodby to chewed up item(s); roll up a newspaper and smack self in head for forgetting. 😃

    Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • My basenji kowboy loved underwear and socks. Especially guests. I would warn them to keep their door closed. That never worked. Kowboy really seemed to love my mother-in-laws panties best. He threw them all over the room everytime she left the door open. I made my husband clean it up. He never ruined them only rolled on them and threw them in the air. He could also open closets, suitcases, drawers etc. It always made me laugh.


  • Underwear is a favorite… Rocky has even taken to stealing my toddler's underwear from her hamper. Boy does she get mad at that! ("Rocky ate my "My Little pony" undies! Bad dog! Silly dog!")

    His other fettish is for clothes stained with breastmilk. he'd go fishing for those from the closthes hamper with both my girls. Of course, you don't find it until you are folding laundry (or worse) putting said outfit on child and notice the neckline has turned into a dropped neckline, or we've gone from long to short sleeved.


  • I would have to say our B's sound just as normal as everyone elses!
    Tanga, I think chewed underwear when we first got her 5-6yrs ago. Now that she is older (and wiser!), she does not chew much of anything, except for fuzzy stuffed animals and all types of paper products made to man! One time though she did manage to chew and shred an entire rattan basket!

    Helix on the other hand….since we got him a year ago, I think we've had to replace at least 3 dozen of my boyfriends underwear and about 2 dozen of mine. So we too have resorted to taller hampers. However, if we do not hide it, he somehow manages to get the underwear from the bottom of the hamper!:rolleyes:
    Given the chance, he really likes to play with my padded bras! A few mornings have been spent chasing him around the room to get my bra back. He likes my soccer socks for some reason. I'm thinking it's b/c they have the shin guards in them too (he wants to chew the plastic).
    One of the girls at work, everytime I talk about Helix, she asks "now what did he chew up!":eek:

    Rhonda- Helix and Metang's mom:)


  • All three of my dogs (I have only 1 basenji) do that. They even grab them out of the dirty clothes in the basement. That is why I have a drawer for my dirties.


  • I've always been the kind of girl who threw her laundry on the floor and only washed it when there was nothing left to wear. But ever since Rocky entered my life, if I want an article of clothing to remain intact, it has to be put away in the hamper, washed, and immediately put away in its drawer. My B has turned me into a neat freak!


  • My Jojo will sometimes go after my husbands boxers. I usually try and keep them in the hamper. She doesn't bother them there.

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