I take Blaze into the senior's lodge to go visit Grandma (in a town of less than 300), sure enough, there's a gentleman there that knew what Blaze was. He was an archeologist back in his day. His last dig was in 1976 deep in the Congo, and he stayed with villagers and witnessed the hunts and the lives of the basenjis in the village.
He told me about one hunt.
The basenjis chase antelope into huge nets that are strung up in the forest like barriers. The nets are handmade with ropes and vines. Some of the hunters stay near the net and hide, the majority of the hunters take the basenjis to the water hole and wait. When the antelope arrived, they release the basenjis and chase behind almost soundlessly. You can really hear the gourd bells, which are mostly around the loins. The antelope hit the net and are shot with arrows. The basenjis have to get beaten off… they get a little too excited.
He has some amazing pictures. I'm trying to borrow his album to scan, but he's not comfortable with that idea.
He loves Blaze though and he knows the african word for the breed which I can never remember or pronounce.
New 5th Edition of the stuff Basenjis from TotalBasenji
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This appears to be a seller of stuffed Basenji, 9x9 inches (about 250 x 250 mm). I am happy to let it stay, but I dont like sellers of "stuff" to be present on this forum. Am I alone in this?
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@redial I was kind of conflicted on this. The plush animals were Basenji's (and so cute), but in the end, it was just an advertisement. True, "Freddo" was a member for 2 years(?), but they didn't have any other posts (so... they were not a contributing member). The last line indicated that there was some sort of charitable Basenji Rescue that would benefit from the sales, but I couldn't find anything like that on the website they linked to.
Then I started thinking about all the other "Basenji" paraphernalia: mugs, jewelry, dog apparel, etc. and it occurred to me that we would be opening a can of worms. If we let the Basenji stuffed animals advertise, wouldn't we also have to let the Basenji mug dealers advertise? So, I referred to the rules:
It wasn't a fun decision, but I felt like it was the only real choice.
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@redial said in New 5th Edition of the stuff Basenjis from TotalBasenji:
This appears to be a seller of stuffed Basenji, 9x9 inches (about 250 x 250 mm). I am happy to let it stay, but I dont like sellers of "stuff" to be present on this forum. Am I alone in this?
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Sorry.....I went against the rules....did not realize it was against the rules to advertise something that I have been doing for years and have contributed to BRAT for years...if in doubt please ask them....
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As I said, if I let you do it, I have to let others do it. I'm sorry... the rule is clear. I think the stuffed animals are cute though.
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@donzii I have several that I bought years ago on eBay. I am sure your products are great but this forum doesn’t allow advertising. You might be able to get BRAT to add them to their goods, I know they have Cafe Press stuff which they get a contribution from the sale of.
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All good...thanks
