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Ciao from Italy!

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  • nala121498N

    Hello and welcome! I hope you can post pictures soon!

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  • ArizonaskyyA

    Welcome! Welcome! I can't wait to visit Italy someday. I am hoping that i will get to go there on my honeymoon, whenever I get married anyways. That was a very touching story about how you got your puppy. I can't wait to see pictures. :)

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  • J

    Hello and Welcome to the Forum.

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  • ArtiA

    Greeting from Europe ( Poland):) :) :)

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  • nobarkusN

    Welcome! Here's a toast to Leonardo! You didn't know Mona Lisa had a Basenji did you.

    Buddy, Paolo and Dan

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  • annandaelA

    Wilkommen! :) Yeah I know it's German, but I'm from Germany (while living in America) teehee

    I loved Pompeii and Capri (went to Italy last year with my mom)

    Glad to see you guys here with your B!

    Haus Annandael Basenjis

    est.2004

    "Love, Wellness, and Quality"

    "We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan."

    –Irving Townsend

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  • bellabasenjiB

    Welcome to the forum, it is a great place to share Basenji information and make new friends! Since you are Italian, you know the meaning of my Basenji girl's name… Bella Bambino Biamondi (she is a girl... my Italian is limited to a few words and I found out later it should have been Bambina). The Biamondi is similar to my great-granparents last name whe they came to America from Italy! :D :D :D :D I dream of someday traveling to Italy!!! Hopefully my dream will come true...

    _**Lisa Lynn ![](images/smilies/smile.png "Smile")

    BRAT Basenji Rescue, &

    Mid-Atlantic Basenji Club**_

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  • I

    @nobarkus:

    Welcome! Here's a toast to Leonardo! You didn't know Mona Lisa had a Basenji did you.

    errr.. no I didn't actually!

    I need a little time to understand how to post some pics,
    I'll try!

    Thanks to all for your welcome, now I take a ride (;) ) in thw threads.. and read something more about your experiences! :)

    Sara

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  • I

    @bellabasenji:

    Welcome to the forum, it is a great place to share Basenji information and make new friends! Since you are Italian, you know the meaning of my Basenji girl's name… Bella Bambino Biamondi (she is a girl... my Italian is limited to a few words and I found out later it should have been Bambina). The Biamondi is similar to my great-granparents last name whe they came to America from Italy! :D :D :D :D I dream of someday traveling to Italy!!! Hopefully my dream will come true...

    well English speaking you have less problems with gender!!! Anyway, Bella Bambino is a real good name!
    this reminds me there was a mare (I think at the beginning of the XIX cent., in England), a pure bred, called Signorina (=miss) who never won a race, and her owner had no money to find a famous stallion for her, but she fell in love at first sight with a stalion, not a real winner… Signorinetta (little signorina) arrived eleven months later and she became a very super star and won lots of races!!! that's the power of love!

    Sorry, I like this true story so much I wanted to tell you! :)

    Sara

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  • bellabasenjiB

    Thank you for sharing your story. It is nice :) :)

    _**Lisa Lynn ![](images/smilies/smile.png "Smile")

    BRAT Basenji Rescue, &

    Mid-Atlantic Basenji Club**_

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