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Cute! Who is her breeder, again?

When I got Abby she was about 12 weeks or so and I actually slept in another room during potty training and she slept in the bed with me. We did it this way as to not disturb te hubby in the middle of the night when we had to get up, but there was a reason I did it that way and that is because when she got up and jumped off the bed I knew she had to go out. It didn't take long for her to get potty trained where she would sleep all night. We slept that way for a couple of months just to be sure but our other dog Missy sleeps with us and we did the same thing with her when we got her at five months. It's just works for us. 😉

Here's the link for them all.

http://www.scaashanghai.org/funstuff_cleaner.shtml

Zahra only screams when she is seperated from Chase. I took Chase out for a walk tonight and left the Princess in the house to finish her dinner since she was taking her sweet time to finish it. When I walked back from the neighbors house I could hear her screaming when I was in my drive way. I have warned my neighbors so they know that it is probably just Zahra unhappy about being left alone.

Such a drama queen.

I have to admit when my husband said he wanted a Basenji I did the research online about them, I was terrified by what I read, Chase was our first dog who we only had about 6 months at that point and he was not too bad but the things I read about the Basenji made it sound like it was this scary creature. Then I saw Zahra for the first time and I was convinced that there was no way this adorable little creature could be as evil as the things that I had read. She seriously hasn't been that bad, she is very different from our Puggle and when I explain to people that the things she does she does because she is a Basenji they try to act like they understand. I think if I would have let all of the scary things keep me scared I would have missed out on a very sweet dog.

Zahra is very smart, obedient is another story but the first few days we had her home she climbed up and down the stairs something that took our Puggle months to master and he still could not come down the stairs on his own until she came and did it her first week here. She has mastered every baby gate we have bought but I am planning on buying a different kind of baby gate on the recommendation of another B owner from this site.

You will just have to find what makes your B happy, I can't seperate Zahra from Chase or else we have her screaming bloody murder. The vet has figured this out, the groomer and the daycare people. I have forgotten to tell them not to seperate them at the Groomers and they actually have had to hear the screaming, guess they know now! LOL! I haven't figured out if she is really attached to Chase or if she just thinks he is getting a better deal. LOL!

Welcome to the site. It's so much fun reading about these exceptional dogs and their owners. You will learn a lot of interesting stuff. My labrasenji and I live in Frederick, MD, not too far away. I just met a lady in my doctor's office who has a purebred basenji so they're around but quiet.:D Have fun with this site.