@ZenGrrrl:

Yes, they certainly know "special" words! Unless I'm about to give them a treat, I have to say "the t-word" instead of "treat" and use "stroll" instead of "walk"! ~ Lori ~

Yes, our Leezza surely understands the word,"walk". About five o'clock each afternoon she starts to bug me about going on the daily walk. She get so excited that I can hardly restrain her.

@basenjibratz:

My 4 year old, Savannah, hasn't chewed anything for awhile. We can leave the remote control on the coffee table all day and she won't chew it. Well the other day, I was doing laundry and I guess I dropped a pair of cotton underwear. Anyway, I left and came back and there they were, on the couch–on her spot--and she had chewed a little hole in them.

I couldn't believe it. We leave shoes out, tee-shirts, and she doesn't touch them, but for some reason this particular underwear was too much of a temptation for her.

We are about resigned to the fact that our Condoleezza will probably always chew things. I have so many rags and face towels with holes in them that I will never need to buy any rags for polishing my cars. LOL

@tanza:

Nope… Well OK, some slow down, with age.. but my oldest male that will be 16 on September 9th still will shred things are times... granted his teeth are not what they used to be.... whenever I thought that they had outgrown these things... they would do somthing to remind me that once a Basenji, always a Basenji and to expect the unexpected...

Who did you get your Basenji from?

I checked my papers and found the name of our breeder: Kenrick Lamascus

@JazzysMom:

Or, you could be like my dh and GRIPE and barely bare it. LOL

MOST of the people in our family have learned to keep things picked up –it's amazing how clean my house stays now that Basenjis live here, LOL --except my oldest dd, who at 20, insists on leaving the shoes she wears to work...to fry chicken... in the front hall by the door and then gets mad at ME because your dumb dog chewed them yet again. LOL Who's dumb?????

Ahh, well.. she's back to college in a few weeks.

And for all the griping, our Basenjis are VERY well loved and enjoyed. Really, the minor irritations {like losing your sandals, LOL} are nothing compared to the joy they bring. IMO, anyway.

So true. She has changed our life.

@tanza:

Nope… Well OK, some slow down, with age.. but my oldest male that will be 16 on September 9th still will shred things are times... granted his teeth are not what they used to be.... whenever I thought that they had outgrown these things... they would do somthing to remind me that once a Basenji, always a Basenji and to expect the unexpected...

Who did you get your Basenji from?

We got her from a breeder in Humble, Texas. Have forgotten his name.

Ha Ha that's what I was afraid of. She chewed up a brand new pair of my wifes sandals last night. I guess we just have to grin and bear it.

Norm

We have had our beloved Basenji for about 1 1/2 years. We love her to death but she is a handful. Do they ever stop chewing things…tissues, towels, shoes, toilet paper? And do they ever cease to bolt when you open the door?
Her name is Condoleezza and she was born 12-21-2005.