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Just a quick update – Keoki did NOT adjust well, and after several weeks of me having to sit up next to his crate to prevent him SCREAMING in the night [we did try having him sleep in our room on a bed, no crate, but he just kept pacing and going from my husband to me, sticking his nose in our faces], and his having absolute PANIC attacks every time we had to leave him home alone we cracked . . .
and brought home Teazer Khani's Sorceress at Kabar, otherwise known as "Fiona".
Keoki was not happy at first and we had several really iffy weeks, but they've settled down nicely and while she does annoy him a lot when he's trying to nap and she wants to play {He's 6 1/2 yrs old, she's 1 1/2 yrs old – he likes to nap more than play, lol}, they do play together A LOT.
He's sleeping peacefully at night, and crating quietly when we go out.
Life is normal again :-).

With Jazz I used to hide the bicarb in blobs of peanut butter and stick it to the roof of her mouth. It's stickier than cream cheese and very nearly impossible to spit out or dig a pill out of.
Just a thought.

Jazz was also on PPA, which completely solved her incontinence issues for the last two years.

Whoa ~~ it's been a full week since this last happened: It is 6:45 AM and Keoki is still sleeping after a peaceful night! He's been in bed since about 11:30 last night. Hoping it's the new trend!

Thanks Everyone.
Keoki has not been handling the loss of Jazzy very well. He does okay, though he's not playful right now and hasn't baroo'd since her death and it used to be a frequent occurrence with him. Nights are VERY difficult as he is up crying most of the night. He is currently on anti-anxiety meds and we're getting 3 -4 hours of solid sleep each night, followed by another 3 - 4 hours of VERY restless napping.
We had him crated Sunday while we went to church and he went into his old destructive mode – my bad, I forgot to move everything away from the crate and had a few things on top of the metal crate. We came home to completely destroyed bedding, papers torn beyond recognition, my camera case chewed up , a camera cable chewed up. The bottom of his crate wasn't even under the crate any more.
Poor guy. Working with the vet to try to get him through this difficult adjustment. We are almost back to square one where we were when he first arrived. :-(.
We are hoping that a week or two on the meds will help ease him into his new life situation.

I know I haven't posted for a long…a very long... time, but for those who remember us ~~ I am very sad to day to have to say that my sweet Jazzy was put down today :-(. She had had Fanconi for the last five years and had actually been doing well, so her vet and I were both surprised when she suddenly began exhibiting symptoms of anything being amiss on Tuesday. I was planning to take her in and have her checked because she had vomited a couple of times and had no real appetite {refused dog food, ate popcorn, but not with her usual enthusiasm}....
but this morning she was semi-comatose. Took her in first thing and all of her blood work was off the charts -- forgive me for not remember numbers at this time {except BUN was >130}....
Had a long talk with the vet and made the decision. I am still coming to grips with how quickly this happened. Jazz would have been 8 yrs old on January 12.

We still have Keoki, who suffers from pretty extreme separation anxiety, so the next several nights -- maybe weeks or months with him? -- will be interesting.

He's looking for a kennel {ad vert is for "dog den"} , not a new home . . . Or am I reading that post incorrectly?

Wish I could help. BOTH of my Basenjis have pretty intense aggression toward other dogs.
Even walks in the neighborhood on lease get interesting sometimes.

Funny thing is, when they were showing, they never exhibited any aggression toward other Basenjis.
It was crazy. My Jazz would be snarking at every other dog on the way to the Basenji ring, and perfectly fine
in the ring of Basenjis.

Our female Basenji was great with kids for the first year of two. Now she is great with OUR kids and with those few who she deems part of her pack – the kids she has known well since she was a puppy.
Generally speaking, however, she does not like kids and doesn't really seem to like when adults visit. {She does have Fanconi, and often just doesn't feel spectacular. I imagine it's for them as it is for us -- family is one thing, but when you aren't feeling 100%, you really don't want a bunch of strangers over.}
We crate her when we have guests that she doesn't know well -- for their sake, and for her comfort. Our crate is next to the dining/living area, so she is not isolated --she can see and be seen -- but she seems to prefer to know that she'll be left alone/not bothered by guests. When people who are relative strangers to her come over, we just tell her, 'go to bed', and she runs right in, waits for her bite of chicken, and goes to sleep.

If they have kids who don't listen to our "let the dog sleep" warnings, I put up a baby gate to further block their access to her.....though I will also tell the parents that they need to watch supervise their child or I will :-)......

I'm picky now about my dog foods because I can afford to be, but honestly when I was a kid we fed them strictly table scraps – my folks never EVER bought dog food; we'd scrape plates and pots into a pan and the dogs ate it, loved it, and lived long and healthy lives on it. I never even remember taking our dogs to the vet.
When dh and I were starting out, we bought what many here call "crap", and our dogs always lived healthy long lives.
I'm just sayin' . . . . .

While I do not generally strike my dogs – the occasional pop on the bottom does happen -- I also think it's important to differentiate between giving a dog a slap or spank and "beating".......
do these people BEAT their dogs, or do they strike them in a tempered manner? There is a huge difference in the effect and the result.

–-Raw meat give my Keoki diarrhea, so it is a very special treat and only in very small amounts. No way I'd try to give him a raw diet! What a mess that'd be, LOL.

And Patty -- YES, Pumpkin freezes just fine. I cook and freeze pumpkin for my own cooking purposes every year!

@westcoastflea1:

im hoping brat will evaluate the home as though they are potential adopters before returning him, i cant imagine my dog being in a shelter for over a month and not finding him? she said looked on pet finder for a basenji in new jersey and never found him seems a little sketchy to me but…..
who knows?

He was lost while traveling – that happens and people often can't take additional time on a trip to search for a dog, esp. one that may move as quickly as a Basenji. It's possible she thought that any shelters would check for microchips and notify her if he turned up in a shelter. I can totally see her thinking he was either gone forever, or had been picked up by an individual
and kept or sold via petfinder, craigslist, etc.

I hope she gets her dog back without any difficulty.....

@sinbaje:

Speaking of blue eyes - did you know ALL blue eyed people share one common ancestor? This was a trivia question on Discovery Health last night. Such a small world. Sure am glad I have brown eyes - much more diversity in my background. :O)

Scientific theories are always interesting…even those impossible to prove

@dcmclcm4:

Many of these people lived in apartments and/or condos and they wanted a dog they could let out the door to use the bathroom and call back. Definitely not a B! I think they liked the size of a B since many apartments have a weight limit, usually 20-25 lbs. or less.

Jennifer

IMO, NO dog should just be let out and then called back. For the dog's safety and to avoid annoying neighbors, EVERY dog should be leashed or fenced.
But…. you know, that may just be me.

But I get your point about definitely they are not looking for a Basenji!

Really….too sick for words.

As some of you may recall, I had HORRIBLE problems getting Keoki to crate – took me until he was 9 mos old {and three crates!!} before he would sleep at night at all w/out screaming and shredding his bedding. For him, the issue was NOT crating, but separation.

I could put him in the crate and while wasn't crazy about it, he would lie down and go to sleep as long as I was in the room w/him. As soon as I moved to leave, he would go absolutely insane. X-pen didn't work either as he tore his nose up while moving the pen across the floor.

I finally bought a large crate {-a great dane could be comfy in our current crate} and we crate Keoki and Jazz together. Jazz would prefer to be alone, but she has always been a dog that rolls with the punches, so she does fine. Keoki now runs to his crate if I just say, "Go to bed". They go to bed at 10 PM and although I open the crate door at 5:30 AM, the seldom come out before 9 AM. I can crate them when guests are over if necessary {Jazz gets uncomfortable if too many people are over}, when we go out, and all night w/no complaints. {I am home all day, most days}.
My family says he still whines at the window for a few minutes any time I leave the house, which is funny to me because he doesn't seem to be particularly attached to me when we're all home together although both dogs seem to know that I am THE MAMA and they behave best and listen most to me.

I wonder how often the dog's anxious behavior in crates is like Keoki - not a crating problem, but a separation anxiety issue.

Not that it is probably significant, but were the pups born in Dec. '09 or Jan or Feb '10?

YEARS ago I had picked up a mutt via an ad in the paper. She was about 6 mos old, and while the woman of the house at least talked as if she had some concern for the dog, the man couldn't get her in my car fast enough.

The dog was okay immediately in my house with me and my sister who was visiting. But as soon as my husband got home, she ran outside and didn't want to come back in. It took him weeks of just sitting and ignoring her, holding food in his hands, etc. to get her to want to be near him. Eventually, she loved him and we had that dog for 13 yrs and she was a wonderful pet.

I think she was abused by the man from whom we got her, just based on his demeanor that day. Makes me wonder about yours…..

We were recently visited by a priest from Uganda and he had no idea that our Basenjis were an African breed; he'd never seen any dogs like them before. He said in Uganda the dogs are large, bark, and are used for protection of property and family. He did guess that, due to their size and shape, the Basenji must be some sort of hunting dog.

So, yeah, Basenjis are not throughout Africa and all African dogs are not Basenjis!

I'll show this to my niece…she has three pits and was involved in rescue until her son was born two years ago. She is a HUGE pit advocate. Sounds like something she might like.