i know its not a chihauha but my basenji (who is pretty high prey driven) plays with a chinese crested as well as a mini foxy. it just depends the temperment of the dog.s

great news shes got on so well, any photos?

@Knipper:

Anyone else have a difficult time explaining to others why you love your Basenji when they have done something bad…
For example, we had a family BBQ at our new place. Everything was going great until Husband went to turn on the BBQ. At some point during that day, Cricket had decided it was the perfect time to chew through the hose attaching the propane tank to the BBQ... why? I have no idea, but I do know it was attached that morning when I warmed up the grill to clean it.
I told everyone to thank her. Husband has a tendancy to get distracted, thus creating a charcoal steak. The pizza was cooked to perfection... ;)

i had a similar incident. except with our boat trailer (pfft we dont need working lights for that anyway , right? lol) Ebony chewed the boat trailer light cord that connects to the car … so after a few swear words and a trip to the shop, the handy man hubby re-wired and MODIFIED our trailer connections (ahem, basenji proofed it), now we'll never have that problem again LOL

I wouldnt swap them for the world, they are so unique in personality and tricks and highly mis-understood by my friends (but totally amused by them).. :) my friends just say i have two toddlers... lol

would we have to arrange it now due postage delays etc ? :)

@MacPack:

Glad to hear from you, Lysh, hope this year is better than last for you (health-wise anyway,the rest of the year sounds pretty OK). Love the photos, especially the "TP'd yard" and all the pics of the girls together, so sweet that they love each other.

..its been a roughish year but looking forward to the new year :) things have all come back on track, its just the hard yards getting back that level of health :) ..yes the tp'd yard, LOL …the other half was actually sitting in the boat doing his boat stuff and he forgot he left the door to the toilet open, well they took advantage of that error and he didnt actually notice until i got home and asked he what the ?? lol (of course they didnt get in trouble, just a stern talking to, afterall its only toilet paper-- thats the worst they do then im happy lol) although it would have been nice if they done it in the house, could have vacummed/swept it up but it was in the lawn lol did consider mowing but i didnt.

@nomrbddgs:

Hope you are feeling better. I am in danger of working myself into the ground as well, so I understand where you were-to a point (I'm putting a stop to it before I fall apart). Hope your CF is better and under control! The girls are sweet and love the TP incident. Always do what you love and the rest will come. Don't be a stranger!!

.. hope things are better for you. nothing worse then working yourself into the ground. its horrible. CF is getting better, the girls help out with the physical stuff perfectly :D yes it was a classic TP'ing… we live at the end of the court, i could see our front yard littered with white as i drove up our road LOL neighbours might think we're crazy...

@curlytails:

Nice to get an update, and love all the pictures of you and your beautiful girls! The painted B is pretty neat!

thank you! :) yes i love Hope's "tattoo" its so unique and it looks neat. she doesnt mind it at all. its been around a month and a half now. its slowly fading. thinking of getting it redone though :)

@Shaye's:

Lovely pictures! What did you do the "fancy work" with? My girls are both red and white and would love to decorate them like that with a holly and berries theme for Christmas, but don't know what to use!

thank yoiu. We did the fancy artwork at work (i work at a dog grooming salon hehe). the girls went down south (sydney) to do a creative colour course and were taught down there how to do it. its very similar to henna but i forget the name (starts with B?) and so they brought it back and we used Hope to show it off (the girls come to alot of promo's and events with us~ they get totally spoilt with pats and doggy treats) as Townsville is quiet a small country town and we dont get alot of creative artwork/colouring around here (our salon is pretty much the first to do creative colouring up this way, there are other doggy hairdresses that do plain dyes too though). Ill attach some of our recent "artwork" :)

all i could find on my pc :) the pink tiger and blue/yellow dog was done up for the RSPCA million paws walk :)

we also attended a charity event for CF ~ a 5k walkathon .. group photo :)
we were the only entered "dog team" and made our entrance with them all in red bandanas :)

and heres a wet poodle :) mr Hugo :)

when Ebby was spayed, we dropped her in at 8am and picked her up at 4pm. the OH dropped her off with her blankie and toy as i had to go to work and in my morning tea break called them to check in on her, the OH must have warned them i would as they were expecting my call. They even called me after she came out of surgery to let me know she was recovering well.

When Hope dislocated her hip, it was of course at 11pm and we rushed her to the emergency vet clinic. they took her in and sedated her & gave her pain meds and done all their procedures while another vet nurse was dealing with me and paperwork for Hope. Once done i would have happily slept in the waiting room but was ordered off home. They were brilliant and rang me straight after her procedure. Within 4 hours from her hip being put back in place they asked me to come in. Naturally she had to stay quiet for the next 3wks with minimal movement (omg and she was like 10mths old)… they OFFERED to keep her in (crated and sedated) for a few days (at my expense of course) but i happily declined as of course we had crate trained her (i was ever so thankful i did!). They said any issues to bring her back in, she came out (back leg was in a sling) just as lively as she usually is and gave me the floppy side ear look like you left me mum. The staff were quiet smitten with her actually. That night me being a paranoid mummy thought her sling was just not quiet right (slipping and naturally, she hated it), took her back and they decided since she is crate trained and happy to stay in the crate that they could take the sling off provided she stayed on strict bed rest. Then we just had a free check up with my proper vet to make sure it was all healing nicely.

I chose my vet because it wasnt a large commercial vet, but a small qualified vet that my breeder also goes to. So they kinda get Basenjis :)

I wouldnt leave my basenjis overnight at a vet unsupervised full stop. My friend picked up a paralisis tick and was at his local vet during the day but needed to stay overnight and was transfered to an overnight clinic which have vets there. there is no need for unsupervised stays

loved watching all the vids and looking at the photos :)

she looks so happy :)

Last round of pics :)

Akward sleeping position from Hope,,, down the back of the couch

Ebby poking her tongue out whilst asleep

Random Play pics :)

And last but not least…. well the other half was sposed to be watching them while i was at work..... they nicked the toilet roll and decorated the front yard. All i could see was toilet white toilet paper littered when i pulled into the driveway.

Can you see in the pic that Hope was yodelling at me LOL

My lovely girls

HALLOWEEN party !!! :) The girls went as "spider-dogs" lol i am so proud :)

Hope had some (temporary) fancy artwork done to her. She loves showing it off and i think it looks rather neat :)

Bath time, uhoh!

Hi all,

its been a whille. a Very busy year for me. We moved houses, my job description changed and i accidentally worked myself into the ground resulting in a 2 wk hospital admission which was a plane flight away from my precious girls (cystic fibrosis related admission), loss of a cr@ppy job but then going back to a previous joyful job as the receptionist at the dog grooming salon and that is where we are at. Hope and Ebony are inseperable and theres never a dull moment. moved closer to the beach so they are becoming water-senjis (still in the making) lol

Enjoy the photos.

Some pics from our beach adventures.

Hope infront of the Campfire

Cuddles and Ear cleaning is a favourite past time

New collars! woohoo

Going on new adventures and find new parks :)

my two lap it up and splash it everywhere too…. we had a seminar at work (i work at a dog grooming salon) only yesterday and i gave them a bowl of water and there was silence as there was just the instructor talking and alls you could hear was lapping water (almost sounded like a running tap)... you'd think they never get watered the way they drink it but they always have fresh water (they have 4 water bowls placed around at home). They love drinking their water (we do live in a very tropical place though)

their teeth and gums are fine (i clean Ebby's constantly as she has a bad bite, hence why she got placed in a pet home as she was sposed to be the breeders show dog) i check their mouths regularly anyway.

the smell didnt go so i took them to the vets and they had a minor tummy bug (baterial) which cleared up with a dose of AB's and their breath came good! they put it down to the pipe run off from our sink and we now have a sturdy cage (with a lid of course) around the outlet :) as they both had it

p.s. i thought it was just me but i kept asking my partner and he said he could smell it too lol

@dcmclcm4:

It depends on the table scraps. When I think of table scraps, I think of junk food which is not good for the dog.

Jennifer

our table scraps are usually left over dinner scraps which is vegies and meat :)

i cant offer any help except that most basenjis i know loved being picked up, however they have been raised being picked up. I also find all of them love laying on their backs and wrestling or getting a tummy rub (however we did turn our pups onto their backs as they were younger to play, if that makes sense). One of my girls came to me at 6mths and she used to hold her breath when we picked her up, but doesnt mind now (rolling on her back was never an issue though). My other girl that i got at 9wks will bunny hop into my arms so i dont have to pick her up :)

some may be fine with it, some may not. each dog is different

done :)

search Hope An Ebony to follow their adventures and HEAPS of photos :)

i added Hope's half sister to our family a year and a half later (however Hope was born 2010 and Ebby was born 2011, same father). I loooove having the two of them! (and the mischief they get up to lol). teeheehee. i was always content with just the one but couldnt pass up the cute little bundle especially when Hope loved her too :) love having two now.

J@sac:

and he'd come bouncing back in.

I think he was feeling rather pleased with himself for tricking you lol what a cheeky devil.

Hope does the door knob thing. i would be in big trouble if i had levers in my house lol and if i ever got to build a house, as much as i love levers i wouldnt be getting them!

we recently moved into a new house that has sliding doors - well they worked that out too (screen and glass sliding door that is…. lol this is mainly Hopes specialty)... Ebony worked out how to open the sliding doors to the cupboard (big sigh, as we thought she wouldnt work that one out as it sits so flush) but nope, shes just too clever and realises theres OUR hidden stuff behind there - the mirror doesnt even distract her! :)

they are smart cookies. they even know where 'nan & pas' place is (2 doors down but the properties are spacious as we are on quarter acres etc) and they go flying over when we let them. They are smart and remember things. Teach them things all the time :)

Hi all,

So im home from my 2 wk hospital stay and everything went well, the girls appeared happy and spent lots of time between home and at nan n pa's (which they run to as they are just 2 doors down) playing with their dogs.

However when i got home i noticed they both had smelly breath (they didnt before i left).

Nothing has changed, diet etc and both have clean teeth and mouths. I thought it would go away but it hasnt and it truly is a horrid smell.

The only other thing i can think on is that we have a pipe that runs our water off into the yard, but its only water and not scraps - this surely couldnt be the reason to making their breath stink and it didnt affect them before i went away? (however i have now set up a fence around the pipe).

Both of their breaths stink, no body stink and both are well and high in spirit, fit and happy.

Any suggestions why and how to get rid of the smell?

Cheers,
Lysh

@Patty:

What breed are the cattle?

i think they are brahman off the top of my head