Training the Basenji? You don’t train The Basenji. The Basenji trains you. What did Nietzsche say in Beyond Good and Evil? WHEN YOU GAZE INTO THE ABYSS, THE ABYSS ALSO GAZES INTO YOU. Just kidding, they can be trained. It’s like playing Chess, you always have to be thinking three to four moves ahead. Fell in love with the Basenji Fourteen years ago, had two males and now I have two females. They will test you.