I take Blaze into the senior's lodge to go visit Grandma (in a town of less than 300), sure enough, there's a gentleman there that knew what Blaze was. He was an archeologist back in his day. His last dig was in 1976 deep in the Congo, and he stayed with villagers and witnessed the hunts and the lives of the basenjis in the village.
He told me about one hunt.
The basenjis chase antelope into huge nets that are strung up in the forest like barriers. The nets are handmade with ropes and vines. Some of the hunters stay near the net and hide, the majority of the hunters take the basenjis to the water hole and wait. When the antelope arrived, they release the basenjis and chase behind almost soundlessly. You can really hear the gourd bells, which are mostly around the loins. The antelope hit the net and are shot with arrows. The basenjis have to get beaten off… they get a little too excited.
He has some amazing pictures. I'm trying to borrow his album to scan, but he's not comfortable with that idea.
He loves Blaze though and he knows the african word for the breed which I can never remember or pronounce.
Ideal basenji friend :)
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Yesterday I found an ideal animal companion for basenji - baby goat There were several baby goats born at our Ruminant Clinics last days and as I was taking care of them, I saw all the similar behaving as basenjis have. They are same sized, jumping aroud and looking what could they do to have some fun, chewing my shoes and shirt, looking at me like "hey you, what are you doing on my planet?":D, they are just too funny and reminds me basenjis so much
This one was born by CS and can?t drink milk from her mother, so we feed her from bottle:)
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oh my goodness how cute..I want goats one day to add to our backyard herd..now is not the time my hubby tells me..and I think he might be right, but one day..
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Too cute!
I like goats so much, there were a lot of goats at my school and the Nubian reminded me at Jar Jar Binks from Star wars
They sure are as naughty as the Basenji haha
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Cute!!!