Posts made by taryn121

I just switched Ripley from ProPlan to Evo yesterday, and he's had diarrhea last night and all today. I was wondering if that was normal because he had a food switch? And if it is, how long does it normally happen? I put a little plain yogurt in with his meal this morning and it seemed to help some. Is there anything else I can do?

Ripley is just a little over 5 months and I think he only has one baby tooth left. I just found one on my bed yesterday!

Whenever I'm eating crackers, he always has to have one too, even though I know he won't eat it! He's crazy…

And, I will be in Muncie all summer, and I was just thinking that we should have them play soon!

He's growing so fast!

Here he is in his new car seatbelt. He doesn't like it too much.

Sleepy…

After he shredded a cracker on my bed but REFUSED to actually eat any of it.

Sleeping again.

He loves to cuddle.

He also loves his rawhide

His AKC Star Puppy Medal!

My 5 month old, Ripley, has started having awful gas in the past few weeks. He hasn't had any change of food, but I'm thinking that his food may not be the best quality. I'm giving him 1/2 cup of ProPlan Performance twice a day and a little bit of salmon oil once a day. Any suggestions about what could be causing the problem, or what I should do?

I recently contacted the breeder where I got Ripley and asked her if there would be a time that I could bring Ripley by and introduce him to the other Basenjis. I thought it would be really fun for him to get to play with some other B's, and I wanted to talk to the breeder about conformation training.

She emailed me back saying that I shouldn't bring him by because the adults probably wouldn't accept him, and that Basenjis can't be together with other adults unless raised by certain pack members. She said she can't run her 4 together.

I just thought that was weird, and I was wondering if it was true/normal?

I love the sweater!

Here are a few more good ones of Ripley. I'm going to try to post every couple of weeks so you can see how fast he's growing!

Yesterday, I was eating spaghettio's on my bed. I looked away for 2 seconds and Ripley had jumped INTO the bowl! Not only were there spaghettio's all over my bed, walls, and clothes, but his legs were orange!

Sleeping

Sitting with me on my bed

We are in puppy obedience class right now, and I'm definitely going to continue with another class afterwards becaue he is pretty stubborn… haha

Congrats! I can't wait to see pictures!

I'm a new owner as well, I just got my Ripley in January. So we'll be going through the same things together

My little boy Ripley is almost 4 months old. I think it would be really fun to do agility with him (and would help keep me active!), but I didn't know when would be the best time to start working with him on it.

Also, if anyone knows of any agility stuff going on in east/central Indiana or the Indy area, I would love to know! I've never done this before!

Thanks for the info. How would I go about getting him tested?

Ripley does this as well! I was so excited the first time he did it. It's the cutest thing ever He's started to make noise more often now, and I'm really excited. I hope he is vocal when he gets older, I love their noises!

These are wonderful pictures! You have two cuties

He's so gorgeous!

Maria told me that he was guaranteed against Fanconi, and it says in the papers I got from her that he wouldn't have it. Should I have him tested anyway?

Ripley doesn't like to sit all the way down either! Especially if he is outside or on a tile floor. He usually only puts his butt down if he is on my bed. And then he'll do that thing where he sits all the way down on his butt and his back legs stick up.

I had no idea how many quirks these dogs have!

@tanza:

Which of the Basenjis from Mariah are his sire and dam?

Paladin is his sire and Tinder is his dam.

Hi, I introduced myself over in the new member forum yesterday. Here are some pictures of Ripley, my new puppy!

Here's the Ripster when we first brought him home. So tiny!

Here he is terrorizing at puppy class:

Caught in the act!:

I got him from Mariah Akitas and Basenjis in Indy.
Thanks for the advice! I'll post a picture of him soon!