So good of you to give Congo a home and put in a good word for rescued Basenjis in pawesome.

He has been seen by two different veterinary ophthalmologists. The first said his eyes were fine (he was still having good days last year), and the second one did two different procedures. We went to the local vet yesterday as his eye was bad again after two weeks, and there were almost no tears in his eyes. He said to give the drops more often and I can give pain meds if he needs it. Even the artificial tears burn his eyes and he wants to rub. It is so sad.

No glaucoma. The ulcers were nasty; but at least they healed.

Howdy

I am wondering if anyone has experience with dry eyes? The vets have my 7 yr old boy Buster on artificial tears and Optimmune (cyclosporine) after healing the ulcers. He still has very one painful eye, and I am wondering what the future holds.

Thanks for any info you may be able to share.

We had a retired greyhound with our b for 5 years. They were most excellent running/racing companions when they were outside in the yard.
But i do I think another b is the best companion, because they have so many unusual traits that only another b "gets". And, it is so much fun for humans to watch two Basenjis together…

You are welcome. I felt like a foster failure giving her up after two weeks; but she has a better situation with an expert like Barbara. I definitely need some practice with introducing adult Basenjis. Those noises they make sound like the Exorcist!

After two weeks with me, I brought her to another more experienced foster home in Maryland. She was doing pretty well here, fine with people, and very slowly making progress with housetraining. But with me being out at work all day, there were limitations to what I could do. She is doing well at the new foster home after a week; she is socializing with other Basenjis and cats. The foster "mom" is at home most of the time and nothing much phases her. She is confident that things will work out for Penny soon. It was so very sad to leave her that day. At least I got her out of that shelter. No basenji should be in that situation for three weeks, and who knows what she lived through before that.

The shelter did not supply much information. It sounded like a family moving out of a home to an apartment where they could not keep dogs. They tried to keep them somewhere else and when that did not work out they came to the shelter. But the story changed a couple time. Who knows exactly what the environment was? I don't know if three weeks in the shelter could have caused her to lose her house training and cause such ingrained circling.

My male also occasionally paces in a circle waiting to go out. Then there is the crazy excited racing circle that I think they all do at times. Penny Rose's circling is the slower steady speed, and she rarely stops on her own; but she has only been out of the shelter for 4 days. She does a good job of exercising herself in the back yard. The excellent news is that she has been fine in a crate while I am at work for the past two days, and is house trained with plenty of oversight. Sometimes I wonder if she misses her dog housemate Pit Bull that was in the shelter with her. He is still there. Sad.

I have Bella, 18 months, and Buster 7 years. They are happy together, but I am keeping them separate from Penny Rose. She has enough to deal with already.

So, I am doing what I can for Penny, but I think she needs more than I can offer. At least there is some progress with housebreaking. She is learning how to eliminate outside. And I am learning to keep her attached to me so she won't go inside.

The circling is very disturbing. She is on Rimadyl for a front limb lameness, and it looks to me that the circling caused or aggravates the lameness. It is the leg on the inside of her circles.
She is great on a leash. Has not showed any signs of chewing, yet.