"That photographer looks funny!" says Afshar (right) to Ardebil (left)

All puppies have found their new owners :D

Now the puppies are 6 weeks old.
They act so lively that a group photo is impossible to success

But now they are able to do the dog show standing without assistent

As well as they are successful in toilet training

And they run to you happily when you whistle

Training of travelling calm in a car and walking nice in leash has started.

Love,
Ciara the Supermum of Five

Thanks for the ideas! I had forgotten the collar training totally - as well as walking in leash nicely. Fortunately I have some training collars at home, before my order of measure made sighthound leather collars will arrive (at age of 8 weeks).

We have now -20 Celsius and 1 meter snow in South-Finland, so it is impossible to start potty training in the garden ;)

More ideas are welcome!

Now Ciara's puppies are 1 month old and our friend visited and gave them basic training of dog show standing. She said that it is easier to put cooked pasta standing than a 4,5 week old basenji puppy :D

Still, here are the results:

A. Abrash girl

A. Afshar girl

A. Ardebil boy

A. Arabesk girl

A. Abade boy

We started with Abade and the sun went down, before we were able to continue with other puppies (because they were sleeping and we didn't want to wake them up). So Abade is the same color as his litter mates.

Regards,
Camilla

Are there anyone else in this forum, who are able (= has time and ability) to give their puppies basic training, before they leave to their new homes?

I have a training plan for Ciara?s puppies as follows:
1. Transport box behaviour ( = puppy nest so from the beginning - later on staying alone for a couple of minutes in transportbox)
2. Toilet training (from 3 weeks old)
3. "Come here" -commando by whistling when giving them food (from 3 weeks old)
4. Companionship with people and other dogs from 4 weeks old
5. Being calm in moving car (from 6 weeks old)
6. Walking free by following the pack leader (from 6 weeks old)
7. "Stop" -commando by clicker training (from 6 weeks old)
8. Learning their names (as soon as the new home is found and they give me the decission of the puppy name from 3 weeks until 9 or 10 weeks when puppies are delivered to the new home)
9. Tricks by clicker training method ie. agility tunnel.
10. Mobility training (ie. following the lure)

Any ideas what else should the basenji puppy know before moving to the new home?

Regards,
Camilla

@Janneke:

Are you keeping one?

Maybe (dont' know, yet).

Now they are 3 weeks old and started toilet training and puppy food eating ;)

A. Abrash girl

A. Afshar girl

A. Ardebil boy

A. Arabesk girl

A. Abade boy

My children has opened their eyes (2 weeks old) and looks like this now:

A. Abrash girl

A. Afshar girl

A. Ardebil boy

A. Arabesk girl

A. Abade boy

If they continue to grow so fast as they have since birth, they soon are all bigger than me!

Love,
Ciara-mum

@BART:

Are the boys already trying to shred toys?

They only push the toys, because they don't have any teeths, yet (1 week old). But I have prepared a lot of toys to shred, when they'll became older :)

New pics next week.

Puppies had today their 1 week birthday.

Boys 1 week old:

Girls 1 week old:

And here is Ciara's "puppy" (right) from last year and puppy (left) from this year :D

It is very hard to succes with photographing with 5 of the puppies even now.:D

How hard it will be, when they move faster?

Luckily one pic of many tries succeeded a little better:

Regards,
Ciara's slave Camilla

Thanks!

This is the first time for us family, mom and the puppies, so every day is a new day full of experiences!

Regards,
Ciara & her family

Here are my babies (D.O.B. 20th January 2010) in their birthorder:

A. Abrash female

A. Afshar female

A. Ardebil male

A. Arabesk female

A. Abade male

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With love,
Mamma-basenji Ciara

Ciara wrote this to Santa in her blogg (http://www.rissa.cc/blog/Ciarasdiary)::)

This year I have a special Christmas wish for Santa Claus: give me healthy and easy puppies on January! Help us to find loving homes with common sense, understanding the basenji temperament and activity needs. Give me chance to quide my kids the proper start of living: enough self-confidence and courage to meet every day challenges, initiative thinking to avoid problems and a lot of adaptability and sense of humor to meet the new owners odd manners.

Sending lot of X-mas yodels to all my friends!