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Can't Find a Basenji

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  • Hello i would like to buy a basenji puppy but i can’t find not even one . Can you help me Please ? Best reguards

  • @luki You can't find one because there are none around. This is not the time to expect to find Basenji puppies in the Northern Hemisphere. The past winter's crop has been dispersed to its new forever homes and no bitches will come in season now much before September.

    This is an old thread. Start a new one, saying where you are for a start.

  • @Zande is making a good point, this just isn't the right season for puppies. Consider whether you (might) be willing to take an older dog home. And please, give us an idea where you are located. Country, State, or Region?

  • I just bought one that is 15 mo! If you want a puppy you have to wait until November- March! They only come into heat once a year not like regular dogs! Be careful getting one on line lots of scams! I paid 650.00 and got scammed! Look on AKC site’s

  • It's not impossible to find a pup in summer. Two of mine were born in August, so that would mean taking one home in September or October, but pups are in short supply at the moment. Any litters are likely spoken for....

  • @elbrant I think for her early post, she is in UK - so useless to look for adult stock as we have already discussed !

    @eeeefarm If, as I think, she is in UK, the instance of summer litters is very rare.

  • @zande said in Can't Find a Basenji:

    @elbrant I think for her early post, she is in UK

    Different person. I separated this into it's own thread to avoid confusion... Although they may both be in the U.K.

  • @elbrant That was the impression I got - both in UK

  • When I bred and sold puppies, people contacted me up to a year before the pups were due.
    For months we discussed what made a good basenji owner, and what made a good Rugosa basenji owner. If they got a spot on my 'waiting list' it was because I approved of them AND they approved of me.

    What I'm trying to say is that you need to contact breeders expecting to have litter in the fall, and get on the waiting list.

    (Getting on my waiting list usually involved paying a bit of the eventual cost to 'reserve' that spot. If someone later decided they did not want one of mine, the money was returned when that spot on the list was again filled by another - the money was always returned)

  • @rugosab We did exactly the same except that no money changed hands. We tried to make friends with, and at all events establish a good relationship with, people who came to us for a Basenji puppy. Marvin died over 4 years ago and before that we didn't breed a litter for about 8 years. None-the-less, since end of March 2020, I have had 246 emails along the lines of 'we have decided to get a Basenji puppy' - or we have decided a Basenji is the right dog for us.

    I have painstakingly replied to every single one, trying to explain the current situation, suggesting getting onto a waiting list and supplying a list of Breed Club secretaries so these people could find a breeder and get onto a waiting list.

    It was obvious from over half the enquiries that the only thing known about a Basenji was that they don't bark ! A vast majority of them I never heard from again. Either I successfully put them off the Breed or they felt the wait and the process of obtaining a puppy would be too onerous and maybe another Breed would be easier.

    Some have engaged with me in correspondence and some of those have visited & made friends with a breeder and obtained a puppy. Since this last winter's crop is now well and truly dispersed, the more patient families are now visiting me and the boys to 'get the feel' of a Basenji. The ones I really like are being put in touch with breeders and getting onto lists for next winter.

    Looking through the Kennel Club's lists - 40 Basenji puppies to be registered in a year is at the top end of normal in this country. This year there were 84. But even they wouldn't really scratch the surface of people choosing a Basenji - and I am sure if I, who no longer breed, have received such interest, enquiries to current breeders will multiply my 246 by quite a few.

  • @zande said in Can't Find a Basenji:

    It was obvious from over half the enquiries that the only thing known about a Basenji was that they don't bark !

    That and they're hypoallergenic, don't shed, clean themselves, and don't smell. Read all that recently in an online article and nearly spit coffee out my nose. Took a big ol' whiff of Logan to check...

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  • @jengosmonkey That wasn't paramount in the enquiries I am still receiving. You and I both know these are things people ask about but in the emails I have been getting, barkless is the thing the majority of people mention. I am talking about personal experience of actual 2020 enquiries for 'pandemic puppies !'

    That they are small and intelligent came second. Almost no-one mentioned hypoallergenic and very few spoken of self cleaning.

  • @zande It's funny... We always walk Logan and Sparkle together and constantly get compliments, which is really fun. But, then we almost always hear "Isn't that the dog that doesn't bark, shed, or smell?" I kept wondering "Where are people getting this from?" They get it online. It's all over the freaking place.

  • @jengosmonkey I get mostly comments that the boys are beautiful (which they both are !) followed by but what ARE they ?. Then exclamations about their speed.

    Over here people are proud if they can actually recognise they are Basenjis, although they seldom pronounce it correctly. Their attributes are a closed book to most people.

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  • There is a whole world out there . We lived in Hawaii when we got ours. N.Z for $2,000 He was worth it. Most of the cost was the air fare.

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