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  • I have Kobey, Tri Male, will be 5 months on May 31st

  • Keoki, red and white, is 4 months.

  • Great! I wish we had a section for puppy chat….

    I thought Cairo was finished with teething and now he is dropping molars...

    He also has come into a new phase where the energy level has tripled in the evening as well as his manly stuff....

    anyone else experiencing energy spurts at 5 months?

    how about the girls?

  • Hi I am waiting to pick up my puppy Mdjai. He is a 5.5 month old tri-color.

  • We have Daisy, almost 5 mos old. She is a tri-color mix. Her energy level is up there. She's either sleeping, chewing or rough-housing with Duke.

  • I have Damisi, a b/w almost 4 mos. The energy level is definitely up there and she's a real pest to the others. Most dogs will teeth until approx 9 mos. with various teeth.

  • etz, be forewarned that there is serious molar teething going on….

    Cairo loves to chew on teething nylabones and my socks.....

    Well there is quite a community of puppies here....

    Please post pics of your pup so we can see them....and their weight if you know it....

  • I have Wyatt, a 5 month old tri-color. He is 16lbs right now. He is full of energy that I try to burn off with walks/running.

  • Oh, I didn't post Keoki's weight. As of last week he was 13 lbs; he is 4 mos old. Photos are posted in my section of the gallery. And he has been WAY TOO ENERGETIC

  • Oops, something happened.. my post send before I wanted it to.

    Keoki has been a bundle of energy lately. If he is not sleeping, he's annoying the daylights out of the other two dogs, or looking for things to get into.

  • We have Chevy. She is 5 months old , she's cory's sister from Robyn at Sherwood Basenji's.

  • We have Kona, he's 5.5 months old.

    I just had him at the vet and apparently he lost all his teeth…by what she says? haha

    And yes, he also is EXTREMELY energetic...the weather has been cold and rainy the last few days so he has been driving his mommy nearly insane :)

  • Daisy's stats:

    5 mos old on May 21st.
    19 lbs
    16" to shoulder

    Her adult front upper/lower teeth are in. Both upper canines are lost one adult has come in. She still has lower baby canine. The baby teeth seem to come out fairly quickly - don't they?

  • I have Zuri, she is a 4 month old Tri. She weighs in at 10lbs right now. Full of energy??? We got our first glimpse of the Basenji 500 the other night….too funny! Love our little girl!

    Brenda

  • I have a 5 and half month old little girl. She is a red/white and her name is Akili.

  • Goober is 14-16 weeks and more than 12 lbs. he is about 14-15 inches tall.

  • From the way everybody is talking your dogs are going to be big. I have Abby she is 11 1/2 mos, she is 14" and only weighs 18 lbs, I just don't think she will get bigger, her mom looks to be pretty good sized as is her dad. I don't know if she was a runt or not. Will she beef up between 1 and 2 years?

  • @abby_basenji:

    From the way everybody is talking your dogs are going to be big. I have Abby she is 11 1/2 mos, she is 14" and only weighs 18 lbs, I just don't think she will get bigger, her mom looks to be pretty good sized as is her dad. I don't know if she was a runt or not. Will she beef up between 1 and 2 years?

    She will get more body, maybe….., but she is pretty much done growing..

  • I have found that there are several basenji body types that are common…

    short and stocky, long and lanky, and the slender sleek basenjis with the almost greyhound look about them with gigantic ears. I am sure they are all variations within the breed standard, maybe some have more african blood than others.

    Beta, my girl was alwasy 19lbs from 1-1/2 years through adulthood. She was a small basenji compared to the other girls she played with.

    I believe boys should not weigh more than 25lbs for the breed standard. Caesar is 24lbs. and has been that weight all of his adult life.

    If I remember correctly, after they are 7months or fixed they tend to look like string beans for a while or gangly teenagers. Then they start filling in or building muscle.

    Cairo weighed 15.9lbs at his neuter date (almost 6months). He is still smaller than Caesar but proportioned like a mini b. All of his teeth are finally in. I have noticed that his head has gotten larger, but his chest is still small. I have also noticed that now he will eat more food than before so I expect another growth spurt is coming.

  • The basenji standard describes the ideal basenji, it does not have maximums or minimums in it. The general rule of thumb with height is +/- an inch. So girls should be between 15-17 inches and boys between 16-18 inches.

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