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  • Squirt bottles are the BEST thing in the world when it come to keeping a basenji out of what they shouldn't be, lol

  • Welcome, Chilli and Saki, Nerissa & Rob! This is a great place to learn, share and have fun. Looking forward to seeing your pups!

  • Welcome-there's lots of help here. B's will push you if you ignore them IMO. It's better to address the issue depending on what the issue is-what is she telling you to ignore?

  • Welcome! Hey, how's the equinox treating you? It's HOT here.

  • thanks, we noticed that the squirt bottle definitely worked!

    kept her paws away from the coffee table & chewing on the blanket.

    It's 14degrees here in melbourne - we're in the end of spring time! Summer is soon and will got hot i say. Melbourne has 4 seasons in one day unfortunately!!

    Has anyone speyed the females? Does this calm them down or do they need to breed??

  • They do NOT need to breed to calm down. Some B's are hellraisers all their lives and others mello-but with maturity, not with spaying.

  • Ok good to know.. don't think we'll breed anyway - as we'll probably find it difficult to let go of the little pups.

    However have 'puppy sramble' on sunday afternoon. Where i'll meet all the puppies (& owners) born this year. There isn't alot here in melbourne. But hopefully i'll meet some of the breeders. Funnily enough - we've gone to alot of animal shows etc which we asked about the Bs. They never told us anything about what i've been reading here??

    I guess we'll see how we go with our little Chilli. I notice also she hates getting into bed. She'd much prefer to go into our bed. She likes to play first. Is that normal??

  • Definitely normal. Wait til she does the 'Basenji 500' around the house onto the bed-off the bed-onto the sofa-off the sofa-rebound off the door-etc. Some people like to hide the behaviours-myself and others figure if you can handle a perpetual two year old you'll like the B's.

  • hi there! thx for the warm welcome. i also wanted to add something that we do to keep wily off the coffee table and anywhere else where there's food or if he's doing something he shouldnt be, i.e. chasing the cats.. we put pennies into an empty soda can and taped up the top. when he does something bad, we shake the can and he instantly stops because of the noise. now when he sees the can anywhere nearby, it puts him on guard. no more problems with him stealing food off of the table.

  • yeah we did the same thing with the squirt bottle. everytime she sees it she moves away!!

    think she's learnt to do her biz outside!! but fingers cross no more accidents inside the house!!

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