that is so true. 😅 thanks. ❤️

they’re just ridiculous. silly babies. 🙄

lol. my husband is actually thinking of buying a big pop-up tent to put in the backyard when it rains. we are pushovers, too… especially my hubby. ❤️❤️❤️

@@GrumpyGirlProductions they are so cute. Who wouldn't do that for them!

Our Chihuahua hates going outside in the rain and we're planning on bringing a Basenji into the family, and they're notorious for hating it too, so we are planning on making a pathway off our deck that's covered and a covered potty area 😂... the things we do for our pups

@@floater9873 …what nice puppy owners you are. ❤️

as someone else said: “the struggle is real.” 🙄😅❤️

Thank you. My husband and I love basenjis so much. Your Freyja sounds pretty. 🥰

She is absolutely the sweetest! I have a video of her playing with her new toy, a stuffed Lamb Chop with sqeakers. I want to upload it here. Basenjis are amazing dogs, unfortunately I have not been able to find another one.

@@Stormblast729 Have you looked into B.R.A.T.? (Basenji Rescue & Transport.) www.basenjirescue.org They are just a wonderful organization. We fostered (and then adopted) our 4th basenji from them… “Little Girl.” And it was through them that we learned that Dabi had not yet found himself a home when he was a puppy (although it IS a show breeder - Sundiata Basenjis - who we purchased Dabi from).

i’m sorry that you miss yours. 💔❤️❤️❤️ they really are special. 🥰

for sure, they do. ❤️❤️❤️ they made us into basenji people. ha ha. …probably the way you must be an ibizan person. 😘 here is a page on “the good, the bad & the ugly” characteristics of / experiences with basenjis. ❤️ basenjirescue.org/REALITY%20STORIES/Good-Bad-Ugly.asp

I had a basenji Chihuahua quite by accident. I never had a little dog before my whole life I've had huge dogs! But I went to the pound and there was only pitbulls and I have nothing against pitbulls but I never owned one before and didn't feel like it was the right time to start that. I went to the end of the road cages and there was this cute dog just wagging her tail in circles because they don't reg side to side and I told her I didn't take little dogs she told me she wasn't little :-) she was much bigger than the average Chihuahua but smaller than a middle-sized dog. I now don't have her because I had to put her to sleep a few years ago because of health problems she was having I didn't want her to suffer. I must have had 30 dogs during my lifetime and she's the one I think of the most. Great dog

@@jimmiedeeflynn946 aww. that’s the sweetest story. ❤️ (sorry it took me so long to see your comment. i have memory/mixup issues.) one of my sons had a chihuahua-mix that he named quesadilla enchilada (casey 😅). little casey loved mark more than probably any other dog will love him in his life. 😭❤️❤️❤️ casey was the ring bearer in mark & his wife’s wedding. he wore a little top hat. we knew that he would not run off in the park in spite of the large group of people / distractions. as soon as we pointed him towards mark, who was waiting with his bride and the pastor under a gazebo, casey made a beeline straight towards him. 🥹 it’s nice that you’re a dog person. hoping you enjoy many more years with your treasures. 🥰

aww. ❤️

lol. oh no. ours have all been ridiculous about not wanting to get their paws wet. crazily, they like to run around in the very occasional snow that we get here in the south. our first boy - neo - thought that snow was stuffed animal filling. he would grab mouthfuls and toss them to his left and right. ❤️

i’m sorry. i don’t speak spanish and my phone isn’t letting me translate your comment. 🤷🏻‍♀️❤️

@@GrumpyGirlProductions , she or he said, "I love them. I have a little girl." 😁

We literally had to carry him over to the other side of the yard

@@Chunga9 lol. yes. sometimes we’ve had to go out to hold an umbrella over one of ours. 🙄😅❤️

ha ha. ❤️

the struggle is real. 😅❤️❤️❤️💦

That’s nice. We had one basenji - in our previous pack of 4 - that would “hold it,” rather than have an accident, until she was finally ready to get her feet wet. Cece was such a good girl.

i think they do. we tell cat-loving friends that if they would like any dog, it would be a basenji… basenjis are so catlike. 🥰

@@GrumpyGirlProductions haha it’s the weirdest thing to me, I’m new to the dog world and exploring the different breeds, I find it fascinating that such attribute and personality traits exists in a dog 😆

@@hugoschkiglitz i was new to the dog world, too, in 2003 when we got neo, our first basenji. he was a black & white boy. 😍 my husband had had outdoor dogs in his family as a child. but my parents’ house was a no-pet zone. my mom was very particular. ❤️ and that’s rubbed off on me to a degree. 😬😅🥰 but around the early 2000s a few things happened in and to our family that made me more conscious of how short life is / can be. as a result i stopped “sweating the small stuff” to the extent i had previously. …not enough, though, to prevent me from extensively searching for the right/appropriate dog for our family. i still have the dog breed book that i studied while on the search for a first dog for our family of: my hubby & me and our 3 teenaged children. i must have mentioned my quest to my coworkers (at a graphic design company in lancaster, PA that had armstrong as our biggest client). a man named john leddy told me about basenjis. he was in love with the breed. i had skipped over the breed in my book… the author had chosen the only unflattering picture of a basenji in the world, i’m convinced. lol. 😅 but when john showed me info about basenjis online i was instantly captivated by the beautiful breed. i kind of knew what we were in for if we got one. the best source, of learning everything there is to know about basenjis, for me has been b.r.a.t. - basenji rescue & transport. i could go on and on with my stories. but basically, my husband & i already liked cats, and the particulars and peculiarities of basenjis really appealed to us, so when our oldest son saw an ad for what would be our first basenji in the paper, he set in motion our awesome life as basenji caretakers (servants? devotees? “…owners” isn’t really the right word 😅). as with having children in the house, a person can’t expect the home to remain as pristine as it can be made to be if it’s a petless home. but i gladly trade a perfectly neat home for one risking some basenji shenanigans. they are so worth it to us basenji lovers. of course, they’re not for everyone. that’s why a lot end up in rescue. b.r.a.t. is just awesome at placing discarded basenjis into their forever homes. (in 2004 we bought 2 girl basenjis, afterwards we started fostering b.r.a.t. rescues, and in 2007 - i think - we adopted our 4th basenji… a 7-year-old puppy mill breeder from b.r.a.t.) sadly, as far as i know, john’s wife never did give up her plans on having a perfectly neat home so she didn’t allow basenjis to become a part of it. 💔 poor john. i tell you all of this because, even if you’re completely new to dogs like i was, you may find that you’re a basenji person. but make sure you prepare yourself by researching what you’re in for first. ❤️❤️❤️

well, it’s been awhile… but knowing dabi, when he couldn’t wait any longer: he daintily and begrudgingly made his way to a tree or bush, quickly relieved himself, and sprinted back into the house as fast as he could. prisca may have tip-toed a few feet into the wet yard and peed before also rushing inside. or she may have had one of her accidents in the house… 😳 prisca is our 5th basenji to raise from puppyhood. and she is the only one of the 5 to be accident-prone in the house. 🙄 we thought that we knew what we were doing before she came along… kind of like how we thought this parenting stuff was easy when our first 2 (human) children each slept through the nights beginning at 3-1/2 weeks of age. then we had our third child and it took him 7-1/2 long months to sleep through [most of] the night for the first time. just when a person thinks that they know what they’re doing… 😬🙄🤣🙃 (our 4th basenji was a rescue from a puppy mill. she had been made to breed litters for the first 7 years of her life. we fostered her for b.r.a.t. - basenji rescue and transport - and then adopted her. she had accidents in the house. we put it down to her tough early life, living in a cage. but, like i say, we tried to housebreak prisca the same as our earlier 4 basenji puppies, yet she still has accidents, here and there. we forgive her, though. 🤷🏻‍♀️😭❤️❤️❤️)

Yeah, pretty much! lol

My basenji could hold it for hours. Anything but getting wet!

for the most part. 😅😅😅 i wish i had filmed dabi last night. when my husband came home from work he crept in the door instead of just walking in and dabi barked at him about half a dozen times. 😅🤣🙃❤️

@@GrumpyGirlProductions, ours barked occasionally, but she'd yodel when she got tired, sad, or excited. 😁