I've been involved with Basenjis for many years and can only remember one occasion where one Basenji was startled by one particular noise ( ice cream mixer van starting up), otherwise they seem completely immune to noises even the loudest ones. Of course there will always be the odd exception.
What's your B's name?
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Booger… we were researching basenjis, looking for breeders, talking about what color we hoped to get, etc etc for a couple of months. One night, frustrated at our stymied attempts to get in touch with local breeders with available puppies, Andrew suddenly turned to me and said, "We should name him Booger." We have no idea why that popped into his head right then, but I immediately agreed. A few weeks later we found the puppy to fit the name. And it fits perfectly.
Lola... our breeder told us she was expecting another litter and we expressed interest. Immediately, I started thinking, researching African names, etc. When I asked the children I babysit, their mom told me all of the dog's on her childhood street were named after flowers and she always liked Sweetpea. So originally her name was Sweetpea, but around 4 months old we realized she is going to be faster than Booger. So we thought of the movie Run Lola Run & decided Lola would be a better grown up name.
Spooky... an all black cat named Spooky because I love Halloween & black cats & its a good cutesy name.
Kiki... a stray I found who has always been skittish. She wasn't intended to be a pet, but rather, I had her fixed, got her shots & let her be outside where she was happier. I never gave her a real name because she wasn't supposed to be a pet, but Andrew started calling her Kiki after a scene from the CKY videos (precursor to the show JackA** on MTV) where they are feeding a cat treats & calling it Kiki. I picked up the habit of calling her that & it stuck.
Earlier today I was thinking of naming one in the future SheRa... I think its great somebody else already named their b that. haha.
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my little Zumi got his name from the infamous B-500. I came in the door one day to him zipping through the house like a chicken with its head cut off, and he didn't even realize I came in so I hunkered down and was joking around with mom and yelled "ZOOMIES!!" He stopped in his tracks! when he pounced over to me I told him " your a little zoomie aren't you?" well, the name stuck, so I made it unique in spelling so I have my little Zumi, named after his basenji zoomies.
~Char
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Our male's litter was british comedy particularly the show keeping up appearances. We kept the british comedy theme and named him Monty, we are big Python fans. Our girl's litter was desserts. since she is a tri the dessert we decided on was a cream puff as they have all the colors in a tri. So she is mystic cream puff otherwise known as Misty
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Shadow was named because he continually followed me around-so my DH named him Shadow. His reg name is Sherwood's Black Tie Affair. Sugar was named because she was so sweet I thought she was a little bit of Sugar. Her Reg name is Sherwood's Something Sweet. Damisi is Dalji's Damisi Dhata A Duara-so I just kept Damisi. Zina was already named and because of all she had been through (warrior princess and all (but different spelling)) I kept it. Calli was named for Callisto.-Don't ask why!
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I named my girl Kaycee, simply because they are her initials. Just changed the spelling so it looked a bit more girly on paper. -
My basenji's answers to the name Seren Jane, short for Serengetti Girl. She is 6 yrs. old and has my husband and I both trained. There were times when she was younger we thought of giving her away because she kept chewing up the furniture. We could never cage trainer for she chewed all her baby teeth out. But with some professional training and lots of patients she has become the love of our lives.
I joined this forum to find out about her black spots on her belly. She continues to get more and they have become larger. Is this a natural occurence in all basenji's or only in certain colors? She is red w/white markings.
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I am not sure if the spots are normal or not, maybe someone else can chime in…my dog, Tosca, is red and white as well, and she has spots on her belly, and they have increased over time, but they are not black. They are more reddish/brownish, and look like a birthmark. I am not sure if they are the same thing or not, but from what I have heard about what Tosca has, its harmless, hopefully yours is as well
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It is common in some family of basenjis. Three of my four do not have these spots, one does.
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As a breeder who has been "in Basenjis" for "a while", I have named quite a few. (No all of these do not currently live with me but did at one time.)
Ever since I was a kid I wanted a red/white female Basenji named Keiko so when I finally got the Basenji as an adult, Keiko she was. I have no idea why I wanted Keiko, I just liked the way it sounded.
Houston and Dallas - Named for cities. A third pup from that litter was Denver.
Logan - I wanted a "manly sounding" name.
Baron - When he was born, he was very plainly marked with no white collar, just a small spot on the back of his neck. I called him Spot as his "baby name" but when I decided to keep him, I changed it to Baron.
Luna - Owner named her. Her registered name is Sherwood's Red Moon Rising. Luna, Baron, and Logan are littermates and all have "red" in their registered names.
Cassie - Sherwood's New Year Party, born New Year's Day. All pups in this litter have New Year in their registered names.
Pippin - One of my "Brady Bunch", 3 boys, 3 girls with the "baby names" Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan, and Cindy. I used the "TIme" theme for registering this litter. Greg became Lisa's Nicky. Jan became Pippin. I had a real hard time coming up with a name for her (I wasn't keeping the name Jan). I kept calling her the "little pipsqueak" and it turned into Pippin from there. Her nicknames are Squeaky-britches and Termite. Pippin has proudly passed along her chewing abilities to her offspring. sighs Pippin is registered Sherwood's Timeswept Promises because she showed so much "promise" as a youngster and I hoped that her contibution to my breeding program would stand over the course of time.
Clipper - Registered name Sherwood's Eclipse Of The Moon, son of Luna. This litter were all registered with the "moon" theme in honor of their mother. Lisa's Rally was from this litter. An odd thing about his name was that when he was born, the co-breeder and I came up with the registered name AND call name at the exact same time!
Plum - Sherwood's Visions Of Sugarplums, born Christmas eve. Whole litter were registered in a Christmas theme. Plum's brother is Topper, Sherwood's Up On The Rooftop.
Locket - Loved the name so came up with Sherwood's Southern Charm. Litter all had "southern" in their registered names.
George - George and Fred named for the mischievious red-headed twins in Harry Potter.
Bindi - Got the name from the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's daughter.
Cory - Pat's Sherwood's Little Red Corvette. Litter was registered with the "cars" theme. Two are called Chevy and Lexus.
Jayden - Another of Pat's pooches. I just liked the name. Litter was registered using the "secret" theme. Jayden is Sherwood's Secret Keeper derived from Harry Potter.
Jozie - Sherwood's Secret Legacy in hopes that through her the legacy of Sherwood will continue.
My current cats all have weird names :p
Moxie is Moxie T. Scooterbuns
Sherman is Sherman Purrsalot Pouncing Moose
Gypsy is Gypsy Lynn Flycatcher
TUK is The Unnamed Kitty -
Willie has spots that are very light during the cold months, but once it gets warm, he sunbathes and they all pop out. They're pretty dark in the summer.
Rose has absolutely none.
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As a breeder who has been "in Basenjis" for "a while", I have named quite a few. (No all of these do not currently live with me but did at one time.)
Ever since I was a kid I wanted a red/white female Basenji named Keiko so when I finally got the Basenji as an adult, Keiko she was. I have no idea why I wanted Keiko, I just liked the way it sounded.
My current cats all have weird names :p
Moxie is Moxie T. Scooterbuns
Sherman is Sherman Purrsalot Pouncing Moose
Gypsy is Gypsy Lynn Flycatcher
TUK is The Unnamed KittyI STILL want a boy named Satchemo to go with my Jazzy…but if I ever got another dog I know it'll be a female so.... sigh. Oh well.
Weird cat names? Try a boy named Ginger and a girl named Nerfnuzzle!
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Tyler the Tiger, our brindle male, was named when we received him. We never considered changing his name as we had bigger things to worry having just received our first B in the home!!!!!
We wanted Katie to be named after Katherine Hepburn and the movie the African Queen. Unfortunately our choice was rejected, so our daughter came up with a combination of Hepburn/Bette Middler (a brassy-colored, sassy-mouthed, LOUD, outspoken female with a sturdy{being diplomatic here} frame), The Divine Miss Kate.
We call her Sissy about as often as we call her Kate. (cut/paste from previous post…Kate our r/w female, is also called Sissy. Sissy as in sister, sissy because she's afraid of the dark, and sisy, short for Sisyphus because one of her favorite things to do is collect small rocks in the backyard and bring them into the house.)
Do you call your B by more than 1 name?
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Cinnamon responds to Cinnabuns, Dogbert, poogies (I swear my Father calls her that) Puppy-dog, and Satan.
Lycia is - Lyly, pup-pup, booboo, & ma puce
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Is there another meaning for "puce" in Switzerland?
Cute name, BTW, for a red/white and the added plus in french as flea!!! As we know, they can be a PEST!!
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Do you call your B by more than 1 name?
This, I'm sure, could start a whole new topic….
Everybody in this house gets called by dozens of names.
Booger will come to BoogerMan, BoogieMan, Boog, Here kitty kitty, Spooky, Lola, Kiki, Andrew, Daddy, pretty much anything you call out loud to indicate you want something's attention will bring him running. He used to really come flying to here kitty kitty because he knew it meant a cat was about to come running & he could chase it. I also called him "Momma's Boy" and "Lover Boy" and "Snothead" and when he's particularly annoying I call him words not allowed in decent company.
Lola is Loleepop, Lollerkins, LollerSkates, Lollers, Lol, Loleepie, Pretty Girl, etc.
Spooky is Spookykins, Creepy Kitty, Spoospoo, etc.
Kiki is Kikerkins. She doesn't have a lot of nicknames because she's always hiding somewhere & sometimes we forget we have her.Basically anything that pops into my head is fair game for a nickname for any of them. Thank God they can't talk because they'd probably nickname me Crazy.
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Sahara is named after the Sahara Desert she is red and white, with red that is about the same color as the desert. Her registered name is from the great classic movie, Africian Queen Sahara. The movie is with Katherine Hepburn, and Humphrey Bogart.
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This is a fun thread…
The Pet Orphans rescue that we got our basenji from named him Garrett. When we saw this skinny guy on the petfinder list my boyfriends mom said he was meant to be with us.
When she was a little girl her family took care of a basenji puppy for a week that was then given to her best friend, a boy named Garrett on his birthday. It was her first experience with a basenji and much later in life she became a B owner herself.
Her basenji who is now 6 years old is named Angus after the AC/DC guy Angus young. -Because Basenjis rock -
Eli just sort of looked like an Eli…if that makes sense. He is also affectionately known, when he's being mischevious, as E-coli, Ewok, Evil and Eekie among other things. He'll answer to just about anything that has a long E sound at the start. When he's in real trouble it's Eli Joseph.
My ACD is Cool Hand Luke. It was an obvious name for him because we'd already decided the first time we met him that his call name would be Luke and he's very laid back and relaxed. We also call him Luke-o-potamus or just Potamus. When he was a puppy he was kinda chubby and my daughter said he had a hippopotamus butt.
The BC is Jake the cow dog (the meaning for Jake is held by the heel), JJ or Jakerdoodles or more and more frequently Old Man. He's pushing 13 and not quite as spry as he used to be.
Petey Beagle (Repeat Performance in registered name) was already named when he came to live with us. Since he had some difficulty grasping housetraining we called him Petey Pullups or Petey Pampers. The kids also call him Petey Pablo after the rapper. He has his very own Petey Pablo Beagle song we sing to him when he's on the table being groomed.
We also have a barn cat named Bronson because she has an obvious death wish wandering through the paddock when the dogs are out running.
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Ghetti is for Serengeti, but we mispelled it. My husband and I didn't bother to look it up…:o but he has few nicknames, Big Dog, Big Chest Dog, Vicious Cuddles...don't have an explanation for them.
Nala..we named her after Simbas gal pal in the Lion King. So far she has acquired one nickname..Spunky
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I just found this old thread and found it interesting.
Ella was named mostly after jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald because we hoped our puppy would sing. And she was a classy African American lady and we had an African American pooch. Our Ella does not sing or yodel but we discovered the name is still appropriate. We tell people Ella is short for "elegant" which describes our girl just right. People agree.
She has many nicknames but we say that her full name is Ella T. Basenji. The T stands for many different things depending on our mood, but mostly for Trouble. We often sing the song "Trouble" from The Music Man except the lyric is "Trouble! With a capital T and that rhymes with B and that stands for Basenji."
