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They are stuck on lead and bored, you own a basenji. If you don’t trust them off lead, get them on a long line and let them explore. They are trying to be dogs and they aren’t able to.

A over stimulated dog means you aren’t meeting it’s needs so to them “they NEED to get over to the dog across the field or they see a bird and they NEED to chase. My basenjis chase birds but come back straight after because they are stimulated and they are not desperate to get everything.

Start doing more stimulating things on walks instead of loose leading walking; you’ll find once you start meeting their needs and let them be a dog the pulling will reduce because you are providing for them.

What I do with my basenjis is bring their daily allowance of food on the walks and throw their food around in a spot and let them sniff out their food. Usually 15mins a day.

They are a sight hound and scent hound so I use a flirt pole at least twice a week and let them chase a fluffy toy

Lastly I do tug of war with them which love.

Good luck

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I used this when my boy was a baby and if he was underweight I would increase his food and if he was on the right track I would keep the same amount.

It’s good to have a look at the dogs behind your pup to see how the dogs in his lines turned out full grown if they was compact, slim etc.

I feed raw and used this guide

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An adult dog needs around 2 – 3 % of their total body weight each day. To maintain your dog's weight 2.5% and to fatten up a skinny dog 3%. For a porky pooch it is recommended to reduce to 2% to help slim. Puppies may need up to need up to 8 - 10 % of their bodyweight to aid growth.

@tanza yes that’s right depending if they have a garden to access whilst you are out etc.

Dog theft is all still high in the uk so I wouldn’t risk a basenji at home for a really long period unattended and having access to the garden incase “worse case scenario happened” and someone came into the garden.

In the Uk I haven’t seen any positive news with a basenji at day care, I personally won’t put my two in daycare at all.

Oh no, 8hours is way to long!

You won’t have a house to come back to if you leave a basenji in their for 8 hours.

All breeds can have separation anxiety.

I personally wouldn’t Buy a basenji if I knew I was going to be out most the day 8hours plus. It’s way to long for any dog and isn’t the life they deserve.

@Lustopher work through the frustration, start with simple work at the start which he enjoys then move him onto whatever you are teaching him. He needs to understand getting frustrated isn’t solving anything.

Good keep working at it impulse control don’t give in when he’s frustrated. You want to end on a positive note not him getting frustrated and walking off.

Yes my boy heels on lead and off lead in the park and to the park.

I have videos of heel work with my boy but I’m not sure if it’s possible to sharing on here.

I use his daily allowance for food for training and his favourite toy when it comes to off lead heel work and lead heel. You do not want to make this session long at all. Heel work is very boring to them. @eeeefarm has gone through heel work nicely I would follow that advice as it’s very similar to what with my boy.

I wouldn’t waste money on a harness at all. I personally use a slip lead; when he is a little older you can use a gentle leader. Collar placement is important you don’t want the collar down at the chest m. Once you control the head you control the mind of the dog

@Lustopher teach bed means bed.

If you are working on a command for him to go to his crate give him the command once he is in there don’t reward him straight away but reward him maybe after 5 seconds. “Yes” or “free” I use for my boy to so he knows to get a treat, those are words I used to release my boy from what I asked him to do. Teach you pup a release command; you can do it when he is sitting, in the crate or whatever. Wait for him to do the command after a few seconds say “yes” and free when you want your pup to be released; you will be able to increase the duration to the point where he won’t leave the crate till he hears your release command.

@Lustopher when he pulls don’t move wait till he settles down before you set off again. Pull to him means he gets what he wants; you don’t want that.

I’m surprised you are having such issues with a 11 week old pup already.

Don’t lift him up when he’s having his tantrums. He most probably does not like being picked up frequently. He needs to learn to calm down by himself pop him in the crate with the gate open; after training and playtime teach him how to switch off. Remember he is 11 weeks old, he is also Teething. You don’t want to be lifting up a 11kg Basenji whilst he’s having a tantrum when he’s older so I wouldn’t recommend picking him up now to relax him; you don’t want that to be a habit. Currently he’s seeing you picking him up as a reward.

Pups tend to want to go toilet straight after waking up, after a meal and after playtime.

I’m trying to narrow it down, and it could simply be that your pup needs help with knowing how to switch off after play time and training.

Basenjis are independent, he wants to do things for himself im sensing.

@Zande what are your thoughts?

Sounds like your Pup is in charge already!

When my boy was tiny he learnt very quickly going toilet outside means he can get back inside quickly. You don’t want to teach your basenji, whining and biting gets what he wants, he does this and you take him back inside. You are in trouble! .

Bathing is a forever battle with my Basenji a 11kg Basenji suddenly turns into a 450kg Basenji with arms waving and grabbing onto everything near him to avoid the tub. If his paws are dirty use a sponge and water to clean him off. I’ve never had to wash my boy.

When he gets annoyed when you don’t give a treat what do you do?

Your training sessions might be too long; if it’s Repetitive and the same thing you ask him each time he’s getting bored.

He is taking advantage of you, what stimulating games are you playing with him. Do sent work with him he is a scent hound he will love to work with his noise.

And what do you mean by physical play, that could be contributed to the biting.

How old is he aswell?

Hi Matt, you can join Northern Basenji Society and Basenji Club of Great Britain on Facebook; plenty of reputable breeders there.

@Zande Can also Help you; she also has a website full of useful articles.

Website:
http://www.zandebasenjis.com/inform.htm

Scotland, just seen her post on Northern Basenji Society fb page @zande

Welcome Hugo!

Sally is amazing, listen to any advice she gives you and your Basenji will be great !

We are based in West London, Hugo can meet Kenji and his Basenji friend one day and have a nice run.

He could be part Rat terrier. He looks very similar to a dog in the park I go to, however she is a Jack Russell and Staffordshire bull terrier mix.

You will only really know his mix with a DNA test.

He has quiet a long body which may also mean he could have little bit of dachshund inside.

None the less is gorgeous!

They are not trainable if you have 0 clue on how to train a dog or working with such primitive breeds.

I think new people to the breed will have a default mindset or expectation that they can train Basenji the way people train for a example a Labrador, but they will quickly realise it’s not; and are quick to label the breed untrainable.

Before I got my first Basenji everywhere I searched, people would say how you can never train a basenji off lead or whatever... I got my Basenji and he’s a off lead Basenji 90% of the time; till this day. What helped me train my basenji was a documentary where they was with the Pygmies and watched how they hunted and worked with Basenjis; and what always stuck in my brain was when they said “ the dogs stay with us because they know they will get fed by us, we don’t force them to stay”. So I knew with my boy to get the best out of him and to keep it natural as possible with him was to train him with only his breakfast and dinner on walks and training sessions, no treats. I did this since he was 8 weeks old and I still only used his daily allowance of food on walks and training sessions.

So they are trainable as the Pygmies have been working with Basenjis for many years but the right approach and mindset is crucial.

When the weather is cold I am sure Kenji retracts his balls, sometimes people ask me if he’s a neutered male but as soon as he’s feeling warm his balls appear again

@sanjibasenji no problem , expect it to happen each year.

It’s part of the package with owning a male Basenji

They do change during rutting season,I think it’s different for each Basenji.

My boy was less welcoming to big males during rutting season this year, he had 2 scraps with his German Shepard mate that my boy has known since a pup and adored. But he wasn’t interested in mounting, only tried mounting when we came across a bitch in heat on our walk that was giving signs to my boy.

At 1 years old when my boy understood what rutting season was he would sit by the front door and howl his head off, he will look out the window and howl his head off. But when he became 2 years old he learnt to a extent how to control himself, he was quieter this year and didn’t do the crazy howling like he did when he was 1 years old, but did whimper in the morning for walks to search for females.

He tricked me twice in the morning into walking him thinking he was ill but I realised straight after walking him what he did.... he wasn’t interested in going toilet he was interested in finding females!

Cockerpoos and Basenjis are very very different.