@abonnard Pee pads got me through in the end, she would pee every 20 mins for the first months, then 40 mins, then she suddenly went to being able to hold it for many hours. One of the best purchases I got before she arrived was a small carpet washer, saved my sanity. The cleanup is so key otherwise they go back to the same spot.
Getting my first basenji
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Here are pictures of my new puppy. Her name is Dopamine or "Dopa" for short.
She came home yesterday evening and is quickly getting the hang of things in her new home.
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Lovely - I especially like the Big Brave Girl in Picture 2…
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love that name - what a cutie!
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Love the wrinkles, congrats on a very pretty girl
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Wow girls are so pretty, she is such a cutie. We got our boy at 10 weeks and gave him a few days to settle in with the cats and us then started training. They are so smart and pick up things quickly so have fun and enjoy as everyone will tell you they grow so fast.
Jolanda and Kaiser
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I got my puppy from Denise as well past weekend. She's great! A warm basenji, is a happy basenji.
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We picked up our puppy from Denise on Saturday as well.
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Good luck & sounds like your basenji is a lucky dog. One thing with a basenji you need to stay one step ahead of them. Keep that in mind when you take your basenji to work with you….
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Oh she is SO cute! wrinkles everyplace. Reminds us all of how adorable our big girls were when they were tiny and we really believed we knew just how to raise them - of course that was before they taught us how they would raise us. LOL
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I've got some new pictures of Dopamine after she has settled in to her new home with me. She's really living it up in the sun in a few of these.
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She really is Adorable!
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The last one is m favorite. She is adorable!
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I can't get over how much happiness she has brought me. She is ridiculously funny, smart, and affectionate (at least towards me and my roommate, she tends to just want to sniff other people). She is practically all the way potty trained by 11 and a half weeks. I love how curious she is about everything, even if it does mean a lot of cleaning up and keeping a close eye on her. I feel like a proud mom of a baby genius. Hahahaha…I'm sure my friends are going to get sick of me bragging about Dopamine all the time, but I just can't help it.
I love breeds like basenjis that think for themselves and figure things out. The only other dogs I have had were jindos and they are similar in character. My jindo (her name is Sequel, and I guess she is really my parent's dog but I claim her because I found her in the pound and trained her and she is really attached to me) lives with my parents. I wanted a dog that was similar in character but small enough to be under the weight limits that a lot of apartments have on pets. I've always wanted a basenji, and Dopamine is the perfect dog for me.
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It's so cool that you know and love a Jindo, our Sami crossed the Rainbow Bridge just over a year ago and we still miss her. You understand how rare and incredibly intelligent they are, the main reasons we started fostering and adopting Basenji's. The 2 breeds are similar but B's are so totally awesome at figuring ways to do things we dont want them to do. When we adopted our 'Baroo' boy it took him only one day to figure how to open every door in the house. Have fun with little 'Dopa' and her love more every day.
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Congrats on your new pup! She's adorable and sounds like a really good girl.
I have a friend who had a Jindo and another with a Shiba. My last B (Spencer) and the Shiba were great pals, but neither of them got along with the Jindo. It was so neat to see them together– three similar, but different, dogs, each whip-smart and unique in their own way.
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Here are some pics of Dopa and her "auntie" Sequel the jindo….
and one picture of Dopa being eaten by a bear. hahaha UCLA is my alma mater. I had to get a picture of her with the bruin statue on campus.
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This is Dopas sister, Mia. (We also picked her up from Denise)
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What a lovely girl
