New update: Tika is no longer in heat! Yay! Remy got neutered and is doing great! We got a dog trainer to come in assess the situation and she thinks it is starting to improve compared to how I described it when I booked her to come. Only Maia seems to need the muzzle, she seems to be very unsure of the puppy. We are working with her to build her confidence. The puppy doesn’t seem to have any stress with Maia around and won’t start anything. The muzzle is on just in case when I am home alone as I don’t want anything bad to happen when if I can’t separate them. The puppy is getting lots of training time to help her learn how to behave properly. With 2 people here we can have the girls on short leashes and they are fine together. They did have a small altercation of snarling but no biting and no one got hurt. The older female backed down and walked away. As much as I want her to be the top dog it seems that the puppy has a much more dominant personality. If they figure out the pack hierchy hopefully everything will settle down. The trainer says there are no pack instincts in domesticated dogs, but after having 6 basenjis I can’t agree with that in regards to basenjis. We can walk the girls together without muzzles now so I think things are more positive and they seem to be improving every day. When Remy is healed from his neuter I will get the puppy spayed and hope that calms things down even further. So far there is a lot more peace in the house. Please anyone let me know if there is anything else I should be doing to keep these girls on track. Thank you for all your advice and guidance! I am so grateful for this forum as what is normal for other dogs is not so much with these guys!
Poll: Where Does You Basenji Sleep?
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We tried to let him come to bed with us before now, like you Nina, we felt bad because he is crated during the days, but he always wanted to sleep in his crate. We would carry him to bed, lay down with him. Then he would hop up, run into the other room where his crate was and stand inside with just head looking out going "Would you shut the door? I need my beauty sleep!"
Recently, with all the work we have been doing on the house, that he has been coming with, he is so exhausted by the end of the day that he hasn't cared where he went to sleep, as long as it was soft and warm.
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Dallas actually did that the first few nights. He would lay on our bed but after about 5 minutes would hop off & go straight into his crate & lay down. It wasn't until one night when his crate was left in the family room that he curled up in bed with me & fell asleep. Now I don't even have the crate set up at night so he has gotten used to sleeping in bed & keeping me warm now that my boyfriend & I split…
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Under the covers in the crook of my leg but somehow she manages to push me all the way to the side of the bed everynight! As I have said before my back has never been the same since Trixie came to stay!
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Now that they are all "seniors" in bed under the covers!
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Cyrus sleeps in bed with us. All our boys actually sleep in bed. Cyrus tunnels under the covers or curls up with Hemi, his best friend. When Oscar touches him in the night, or if I startle him, he lets out this snarky growl. He will even open his mouth and put it on the offender, but he won't bite down.
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The very first night we had Bitty, she very politely informed us the she was sleeping under the covers in the middle of my back, nothing we said or tried could disuade her so knowing we were beatten we have let her stay.
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When we had just Cory, we let her sleep in bed with us a couple of times but she would sleep with both legs stuck stiffly out and poking one of us…usually DH.. in the back. Not at all restful. Jayden is more restless at night and suffers from "teeny bladder" and so I don't trust him out of his crate. I know he won't pee in his bedding but I don't trust him to respect MY bedding and/or carpet during the night. So they sleep in what we refer to as "the basenji condo" in our bedroom - 2 stacked crates with comfy bedding. They can hear us and smell us and at bedtime they are waiting at the "condo" to be let in. (I have to keep the crate doors shut during the day because naughty Jayden likes to pull all of Cory's bedding out and that REALLY annoys Cory.....a lot!) DH says it reminds him of one of those Japanese hotels with the tubes for the guests to sleep in.
Pat
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Kaycee sleeps in my bed. When it's really cold and i can't find her she'll ALWAYS be found on my bed spread eagle in front of the heater. Soon i'll have two sleeping with me. The way things are going i'll end up on the sofa.LOL.
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She thinks my bed is HERS, and her bed is for her toys!
Isn't this the cutest thing you ever seen!!!! I got up to get ready and she wanted to sleep in…. I didn't put her like this i found her and actually got the camera befor she woke!!!!!
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He would sleep in his crate and one time we let him in our room and he pee'd on the bed so back to the crate he went. After a week or so we let him rotate between my two daughters. He's happy sleeping with the kids in their beds.
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In the winter, both Duke and Daisy waste no time tunneling under the covers - Daisy likes to get down furthest by our feet - Duke likes to sleep a little higher up so his nose sticks out of the covers. Now that it's summer, a sheet is all we have on the bed - but Daisy moans and groans until she can get under the sheet - Which I don't like 'cause she's hot and don't desire the extra body heat in the summer.
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As of Monday, mine don't sleep in their individual crates any more.
As some of you know, I have been trying to solve the problem of a Basenji with extreme separation anxiety for over a year now. My Basenjis have always had their own plastic crates, and Keoki has had an ex-pen around his so that he could be "free" even while locked up. He had gotten so bad that the ex-pen was being dragged across the room while we were gone, and he'd torn his nose up on a couple of times.
We'd tried crating him with Jazzy, but he's too big for that now and she hated it.
I found an ad on Craigslist for a large wire crate for $40.00, and figured as a last ditch effort I would try the wire crate inside the ex-pen and at least he would not be able to eat any more of the crate. {I hadn't tried a wire crate just yet as I'd already sunk a few hundred dollars into the ex-pens and plastic crates and Dh was not into spending more to possibly not solve the problem. But $40.00 seemed reasonable to me
it's like half-price!}Well, the "crate" turned out to be very large, and both Basenjis love it!
As soon as we put it together, Keoki went in and wouldn't let Jazzy in. She kept trying to get in, and he'd sit at the gate and slap her head with his paw. LOLSo, we put BOTH dogs' beds in the wire crate, and they've been happily sleeping in it all week. When we left them alone the other day – this is when Keoki always totally wigs out -- we came home to happy pups and even the paper towels we'd left inside the crate were still intact.
So, this is their new digs; they love it. There's ample room for both their snuggly beds and still room left over to stand or play. No one is cramped. It's great. And the best part is, Keoki doesn't seem to mind too badly being left home in it.
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Ours have a very similar crate that they sleep in together. Congratulations on the breakthrough! Intact paper towels! Amazing!
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Aww - if only they could talk, maybe this was what Keoki would have told you along time ago. :rolleyes: They look so happy - I'm so glad that you found a solution.
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Sleeps in his own bed until we fall asleep and can't kick him out of our bed!
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Three on the sofa, 3 piled up on a chair, 3 in their own beds on the floor!
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Barley sleeps in my bed. He sits on my pillow and paws at the blankets until I lift them up for him. Then he crawls under and sleeps at me feet. Not quite sure how he breathes under there?? Any time I move in the night he makes sure to scoot over so we are still touching.
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Heh, I dont think my B likes being under a blanket. He refuses to do so. He'd rather curl up into a ball and sleep next to my face for warmth.
When he's blowing his coat is can be a bit frustrating….
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All 3 of my past Basenjis slept in my bed. Now with a new 7 month old it's in the crate for now.
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Cody likes to sleep wherever I am. If I fall asleep doing homework on the living room floor, he curls up next to me in the bend of my knees, my side, or my chest. He prefers sleeping in the bed though. He used to sleep in the bend of my knees there (it's closer to the fan, too), but lately he has been dragging his bed into my room, letting me know he wants it on my bed so he can sleep in it as well. He's such a bed-hog though. I almost always end up on the edge of the bed, so halfway through the night, I wake up and scoot back over.
