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Is it normal for females to mark territory

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  • SunnyS

    I have noticed that when Sandie is let out front or even when we are walking the neighborhood that she loves to smell the mail boxes, and remark the places i know are places males have been. Its not even a full squat like females do just a half way squat and a short squirt.
    She also does this in the hall way to my husbands shop ( thank god that area is tile) if he locks her out from going with him. She does not do this in any other part of the house. I was just wondering if its a act of dominanace.
    Also kinna off subject but it there a foot spay out to use to clean feet, I wash her feet but they stink still, hate to say it again but it smella like fritos.

    <<They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

    Winnie the Pooh>>

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  • WBLW

    As for the frito toes, it is just a dog thing. I have no idea, it's not just Basenji's my boxer has frito toes and I know other breeds have the same thing. I think it has soemthing to do with the sweating from the feet????

    As for the marking, I have seen females mark, even a few lift thier legs. I'm not sure about her doing outside your husbands shop though.

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  • JazzysMomJ

    My female golden retrieve mix does the same thing, quick squat and squirt, anywhere another dog may have been.

    I STILL don't get the frito feet thing, thank God! My dogs feet just smell like the dirt in the yard – which smells nothing like fritos, LOL.

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  • tanzaT

    Yes, it is normal for bitches to mark… my girls (I have three at home) mark all the time... and usually over top where the last one went... on walks or at shows/lure trials, they will mark over top other Basenjis....

    Pat Fragassi

    Tanza Basenjis

    www.tanzabasenjis.net

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