Sounds like you are due for a visit.

Laskiblue, there is a really nice dog park in Redlands that you should bring your pups to! I take my dog Dopamine there 3-4 times a week.

i live in Redlands, but I go to LA almost every weekend and would be down for a play date.

Here are some pics of Dopa and her "auntie" Sequel the jindo….

and one picture of Dopa being eaten by a bear. hahaha UCLA is my alma mater. I had to get a picture of her with the bruin statue on campus.

I can't get over how much happiness she has brought me. She is ridiculously funny, smart, and affectionate (at least towards me and my roommate, she tends to just want to sniff other people). She is practically all the way potty trained by 11 and a half weeks. I love how curious she is about everything, even if it does mean a lot of cleaning up and keeping a close eye on her. I feel like a proud mom of a baby genius. Hahahaha…I'm sure my friends are going to get sick of me bragging about Dopamine all the time, but I just can't help it.

I love breeds like basenjis that think for themselves and figure things out. The only other dogs I have had were jindos and they are similar in character. My jindo (her name is Sequel, and I guess she is really my parent's dog but I claim her because I found her in the pound and trained her and she is really attached to me) lives with my parents. I wanted a dog that was similar in character but small enough to be under the weight limits that a lot of apartments have on pets. I've always wanted a basenji, and Dopamine is the perfect dog for me.

I've got some new pictures of Dopamine after she has settled in to her new home with me. She's really living it up in the sun in a few of these.

Here are pictures of my new puppy. Her name is Dopamine or "Dopa" for short.

She came home yesterday evening and is quickly getting the hang of things in her new home.

My puppy is going to be turning 10 weeks old this friday and will be ready to come home. I am so excited to bring her home! I will be posting pictures all over the place once she comes home.

I am moving to a new apartment on 3/1 and bringing my first basenji home on the 9th as well! woo hoo!

Thanks for the replies! My puppy is coming from Denise Searcy from Nuevo CA. She had two litters this year and they were both whelped on December 28th…two hours apart!

I spoke with her the other day and she said that my puppy will be ready to come home around March 8th or 9th, when she is 10 weeks old. I am moving to a new place with a private backyard March 1st so she'll have a convenient place to have some outdoor time. I'm really lucky to work in an office that is dog friendly and when she is a little older I am expecting to bring her to work with me a couple times a week.

Thank you for the input about what to get before she comes home. I know it's impossible to know everything my puppy will need since every dog is different, but I am trying my best to have my bases covered.

I will post pictures as soon as I can.