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Raw eggs are great too. Even the shells. In fact my kids used to get fresh duck eggs when I lived on a farm.
I read that the calcium in egg shells provides a good balance for the phosphorus in eggs. I'm just learning about raw food diets. Do you just give them the whole egg or do you crack the egg and crumble up the shells?
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I wanted to thank you all for your advice and give you an update on Thabo. It was rude of me not to follow up. It has been a challenging period on my life for both me and my partner these past few months and the additional stress of working with Thabo has kept us busy. We have not had a session with our trainer since the first one. She would like him muzzle trained first. We are doing so with a nylon muzzle right now.
About a month ago we reached out to our community for help. Thabo was getting out of control with his barking and aggression. We have done obedience classes with Lebowski our other dog and we continually practice basic obedience commands with Thabo but these measures have not been enough.
The first person we called was the SPCA where we adopted him. The women there plainly said if we returned Thabo to them based on the description of his behaviours they would put him down. The alternative no-kill adoption agency said they would not be able to help either. We are still unsure about whether or not we should be keeping him. I feel like most of the time we don't have the answers or the time to find them. He is getting good consistent care with us but we are really inexperienced in this matter and worried about making mistakes. We are also worried about how Thabo is affecting our lives. We are going away for a few weeks next March and regardless of how obedient Thabo is of us we don't know who we could ask to take him on during that time? We don't know anyone who we could trust to handle an aggressive dog.
We have had Thabo for almost five months now. The barking inside the house has subsided slightly as he settles in. For excercise we are starting to let him run off leash with his muzzle on a walk through the woods that people rarely frequent. Prior to this Thabo only got to really run in the fenced dog yard out front of our home but I think this was a mistake. Whether or not we are in the yard with Thabo, when someone or some dog walks by he he will charge over to the fence and growl and bark. Telling him no, putting him on his lead for awhile, bringing him inside, nothing we've tried stops this behaviour.
Again, thank you for all your input. I will definitely be posting again with more questions. I'm also going to put up some pictures of Thabo in the gallery. The trainer says he is probably a Basenji-Pit-Bull cross.
First off, please try to stay non-judgmental. We would like nothing more than to keep him and free ourselves of worry. My partner and I are just uncertain about what will be best for this dog. We adopted our Basenji-Cross, named Thabo, from the SPCA a few months ago. At the time I did some breed research and found out that Basenji's were affectionate dogs but very energetic and easily distracted. Since then I've been told that Basenji puppies socialize more aggressively than other dogs and are prone to aggression with other breeds. Please correct me if this is a untrue.
Thabo is probably crossed with a german shepard or collie. He is about 65lbs. From what I've researched I believe his aggressive behavior towards dogs is fear based. When we adopted Thabo we were told he was three years old when he is in fact less than a year. We were hoping to adopt an older dog because our other dog a male golden retriever-collie, named Lebowski, is only a year old as well. They play pretty rough and my partner is concerned that if we keep Thabo it will affect Lebowski's behaviour.
We live in a basement apartment in a rural town. Right now my partner is on Summer Vacation so he is able to take the dogs into the yard to run around several times a day but soon he will be back at work. We are able to run and swim our dogs down by the river but Thabo must be kept on a long rope and once my partner is back at work we will only able to get them out for a walk before work, a pee-break at lunch, and a longer walk or run at night. We have been aiming to get Lebowski well trained enough to run off leash while we are bike riding on trails or jogging. I am concerned that because of Thabo's aggressive behavior towards other dogs and his insatiable desire to hunt birds it won't be safe to bring him along. Running in the yard or in a field isn't nearly enough to exhaust this little guy.
This evening we are having a dog trainer come into our home for a visit, we are hoping she can shed some light on his behavior.
Our landlord is anxious about us having Thabo and gave us an ultimatum that we need to muzzle him when we have him outside, or find a new place to live.
I'm not sure we have all the resources to give Thabo the attention he needs. I know we're probably not the first people to make this mistake and I feel terrible. Has anyone one else had to make this type of decision? I know every dog is different but can aggressive Basenji's be retrained and trusted to be off leash and with other dogs?
Thank you everyone for the good advice. We realize there are many changes going in our dog's life over the past two months. Being on a leash is probably a big one, chances are his previous owners never leashed him. Typically in the valley where he was found dogs often run around in packs.
I think maybe we'll hold off on the muzzle it may be too much for him to take. As for leash laws and irresponsible owners there isn't a darn thing we can do about it. I come from a big city and I have never seen dogs get the run of the land the way they do here, it's just the way it is. The best solution probably is to turn him around and walk away.
My partner and I adopted a Basenji-cross from our local SPCA 2 months ago. Everything went smoothly for the first month but since then he has become aggressive with other dogs. From what I can tell this is a common Basenji behavior and we are currently seeking out a suitable dog trainer and doing our best to correct him when he is agressive.
In the meantime we feel we need to muzzle him when out on walks so he is not a threat to other dogs. We live in a rural community where the majority of people do not leash their dogs and the majority of dogs do not listen to their owners. There have already been a few close calls and it's only a matter of time before some dog or person gets hurt.
Has anyone else taken this precaution ? We have researched muzzling and spoken to an experienced dog owner who has used muzzles but I'm wondering if there any basenji specific behaviors I should anticipate when we do this?