I'm sorry - I laughed when I applied ketchup all those years ago, and your post had me in fits of hilarious memories ! What we learn as we live with Basenjis !
She-Ra and the Christmas Tree
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here a few ornaments get knocked off the tree from the malinois' tail, otherwise the basenjis don't seem to bother it. My first basenji HAD to have a place to nap under the tree. I'd leave a place for her, point it out to her and she'd never bother anything. If I didn't she'd just rearrange things so she had a nap spot under the tree. Sometimes an ornament would get knocked off as she crept under there; a package might get moved if someone unthinkingly had moved it into her nap spot. It's really one of the things I miss most about her/this season.
I did have a foster dog from that KS City bust, Inka. Little tiny black basenji with a very small amount of white. She never bothered the tree, but that year DH decided we needed a train under the tree. My did Inka like that toy! She'd either play Godzilla or grab a train car and run. I sorta miss that too. DH didn't put the train down this year.
Otherwise, I know of several basenji owners who have trees that live inside the xpen.
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I think it's wonderful owners try to outsmart b's with the tree guards.
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I wish Piper didn't bother the tree like all of yours but she thought we got the tree as a toy just for her. She loves all the ornaments on it and would love nothing more than to be able to knock them all off and play with them, she also likes chewing on the tree’s branches. So our tree has a safe home inside an xpen, at least for now.:D
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My little tree had to be put on top of a book case so Beegin would leave it alone. It really isn't the tree so much, probably because it is fake, but I have these ornaments that are glass birds with real feathers for tails…yeah apparently feathers still smell like birds even after they've been glued to a glass bird butt and kept in storage for a full year. I think I will be changing my ornament theme next year to "anything not made of previously alive prey items"...I am thinking snowflakes or something...:D
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I wish Piper didn't bother the tree like all of yours but she thought we got the tree as a toy just for her. She loves all the ornaments on it and would love nothing more than to be able to knock them all off and play with them, she also likes chewing on the tree’s branches. So our tree has a safe home inside an xpen, at least for now.:D
Haha.. thanks for sharing that pic! Couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it! I hope the xpen works
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Well, Sahara tries every year to steal at least one ornament, I think she just wants me to chase her. I go after her with a water bottle, and that's it. Most of the time she will drop anything she has, it usually only happens once. But to be safe when I am gone and she is home alone I close the door to the living room where the tree is. Once I had a small dog bone on the tree, my son who is now 25 made it into the cutiest dog face ornament with felt ears, eyes, and a red felt tongue. Sahara's first Christmas she got that ornament and tore all the felt off. Needless to say she didn't eat the dog bone, he made it in kindergarten, so it was probably 20 yrs. old. YUCK!!!! I did save all the felt and made another one to hang on the tree, up high, hehe!!!!!!
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I never had any problems with my live trees or the ornaments with my first two basenjis (Luny is still adjusting here so don't know what he'll do when I finally get the tree up). I did have to keep the ornaments off the lowest branches - because they'd get knocked off (not eaten) and last year EL D seemed to take a liking to the plug from the lights so that had to go up higher as well.
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We have never had a problem either with a live tree… only thing is that I do not decorate it all the way down, as the kids used to like to do the B 500 around it... and the ornaments would fall off... Once in a while they thought about drinking from it... but that was pretty short lived.....
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HA! I don 't know, Shannon- Jack chases snowflakes outside like they are prey….lol
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Oh yeah - I forgot about the drinking from the tree bowl part. Ick yuck elgh!
