@Robin_n_Jack:
I was at a board meeting the other day that was followed by dinner, and we go to talking about dogs, and I said I have a Basenji.
No joke, here is the response:
"So, that is a cross between a Bichon and a what?"
um….no.
We went to the park this weekend for a playdate with Zip & Riley (mauigirl). We sat off the the side with our 4 basenjis running around & naturally got a lot of questions. One woman was on her cell phone with a friend, and she had this conversation:
To us: What type of dogs are those?
Us to her: Basenjis
To her friend on the phone: Basenjis… I don't know.
To us: What are they?
Us to her: African sight hounds... they're hunting dogs
To her friend: African hunting dogs.... I don't know.
To us: So they're mixes, right?
Haha. She had a lengthy conversation with her friend about what they looked like, etc, and you could just tell she wasn't convinced they weren't mixes. haha.