You'd think I'd have learnt my lesson!!

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  • K

    @Benkura:

    You may have noticed I haven't posted any vids or many pics of my dogs especially inside the house. That's because it's embarrasing to see the amount of shredded kleenex, plastic, cardboard etc all over my floor! :o
    Everyone else's houses look so clean & tidy. How can that be living with Bs?? :confused:

    That's easy to answer… I clean it all up before hubby sees the mess and freaks out! LOL If he knew half of what Blaze has done, I think the dog and I would be homeless! ...and I certainly would not be getting another B!

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  • nobarkusN

    Back in 1976 my first tri Basenji, Nipper stole my toast right off my plate. Got up to get something real quick and turned around and the toast was snatched in a second. I laughed at the time as she was normally a really good B and never touched or chewed anything.

    Buddy, Paolo and Dan

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  • noodleN

    @Benkura:

    You may have noticed I haven't posted any vids or many pics of my dogs especially inside the house. That's because it's embarrasing to see the amount of shredded kleenex, plastic, cardboard etc all over my floor! :o
    Everyone else's houses look so clean & tidy. How can that be living with Bs?? :confused:

    LOL, don't worry, my house is exactly the same. Especially with two naughty puppies. Everyone knows you can't be too houseproud with dogs around, especially Basenjis.:D

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  • crystalncodyC
    First Basenji's

    @Benkura:

    You may have noticed I haven't posted any vids or many pics of my dogs especially inside the house. That's because it's embarrasing to see the amount of shredded kleenex, plastic, cardboard etc all over my floor! :o
    Everyone else's houses look so clean & tidy. How can that be living with Bs?? :confused:

    My roommate and I have given up on cleaning the living room because that's "his" area. Cody loves to pull fluff everywhere and doesn't really care for paper, etc, although I do have to make sure he doesn't find his leash or else it will be in pieces in less than 2 minutes. Usually during one of his naps I stuff the fluff back in his pillow, but that's as far as I go. It's a little embarassing when my firends come over, but most of them have dogs (or children) so they understand.

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  • wizardW

    My first beastie would go and do something "naughty" just to get me away from the table then he'd go around the other way (you can enter my kitchen from two directions) and grab the sandwich or whatever he had spied on the table. :D

    Gossy, my current beastie, will simply prowl around the room while I'm eating and then suddenly spring onto the table or into my lap if there' something she's thinks is good to eat. I know she does this but it is always so sudden there's only a split second or less to notice and grab her first. :D

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  • ElscodobermannE

    Basenjis are the ultimate thieves!

    I take a training class on a Tuesday - and a few weeks ago while i was there John decided to just make a pizza for his dinner, and sat down in front of tv - he was so engrossed in what he was watching that he bearly noticed the pizza getting chewed from the other end by a certain tricolour..

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  • JannekeJ

    @Elscodobermann:

    Basenjis are the ultimate thieves!

    I take a training class on a Tuesday - and a few weeks ago while i was there John decided to just make a pizza for his dinner, and sat down in front of tv - he was so engrossed in what he was watching that he bearly noticed the pizza getting chewed from the other end by a certain tricolour..

    I can just imagine how that must have looked :D Too funny! :D

    Tillo's website

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  • BorbasukB

    @Elscodobermann:

    Basenjis are the ultimate thieves!

    I take a training class on a Tuesday - and a few weeks ago while i was there John decided to just make a pizza for his dinner, and sat down in front of tv - he was so engrossed in what he was watching that he bearly noticed the pizza getting chewed from the other end by a certain tricolour..

    Borzoi can do that too! my Lucy once helped herself to one end of a jumbo hot dog while I was eating the other. She would also beg shamelessly; she once had the end bench at Crufts on a row opposite some trade stands. I hate to think what she ate that day; various dog treats and food, human sandwich fillings, at least one Jaffa cake all of it proffered by willing victims who were flattered by her un-Borzoi-like attention. Of course she was raised by Basenjis.

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  • P

    I have alughed so hard over these posts that I'm crying. Mind you its good to know that we're all 'suffering'!

    Re doors - we've changed some of the handles to the old fashioned round ones as all mine open the latch pull down type. The trouble is they have yet to learn (apart from Jewel) how to close them! Jewel also if she is really determined can turn the round handles too!!

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  • crystalncodyC
    First Basenji's

    Cody is actually really good about not begging for food, at least with me. I think it's because my food is almost always really spicy-hot. The first time I gave in, even though I tried to pick them out, he accidentally got a jalapeno along with his chicken and cheese, and he didn't like that at all! Now he just comes over to see what I have, but he doesn't beg or try to take it. My roommate, on the otherhand, will give him little bits of meat here and there. Occasionally he gets brave and will try to take things off of her plate if he can get to it. Recently, she was eating Chinese dumplings while watching TV, she looked down at one point, he was happily munching on them.

    My other dog, a German Shepard/Rottweiler mix that lives with my parents now (and they have decided that I can't have him back), will beg for anything and everything. He will sit at your feet and stare at you and drool. If it's on your plate, he wants it, no matter what it is. Meat, seafood, collard and turnip greens, almonds, anything. He has recently discovered that he likes coffee, and so they have to make sure not to leave their cups anywhere he can reach it.

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  • Shaye's MomS

    I think everyone who decides to have these little furbabies has to make a conscious decison that housekeeping is going to fall by the wayside in some areas. . . for instance it's not real easy to keep carpets nice and clean when they drag their treats and bones all over it! We just vacuum and count on getting in a professional cleaner a couple of times a year. Other than that, our friends just have to understand - we have a Basenji!

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