With the approach of Halloween and other holidays I want to remind everybody to be especially diligent with keeping toxic foods away from your dogs. Chocolate in any form; drinks, candy, cakes is toxic. For more information on other foods your dog shouldn’t eat check out the WebMD slideshow.
photo by: Karen Hutchison
My Basenjis love being outside in the Fall sunshine, but as the days become shorter and the evenings become cooler, they will be spending more time indoors. Time to remind them of good inside manners. Where is your dog’s favorite warm spot to lounge in the in the house when it is too cold outside? This is Wilson soaking-up the sun. Photo by Jamie Masser.
While Basenjis do not have a sustained bark like your typical domesticated canine, they are capable of making sounds such as howling, screaming, growling, yelping and their famous happy sound, the yodel. Some can even be trained to make sounds on command, while there have been others that seem to say human words. You might get one that is very quiet to for years and then all of a sudden one day they belt out the biggest yodel that appears to have come from deep down and pushed out by the greatest of efforts. Each one is individual.
Puppies need to play with one another in addition to socializing with older dogs and humans. This is how they learn to play nice. They can get, what appears to eye as being kind of rough, but you can be sure that they will let each other know if it does get too rough. This is how they learn their limitations.
Basenji girls typically come into season once a year, unlike most dogs that come into season twice a year. The time for puppies is quickly arriving. They are usually born late Fall, early winter. If you are thinking you would like to add a Basenji to your family, you might want to start your research by checking out So You Think You Want a Basenji, provided by the Basenji Club of America, to determine if a Basenji is right for you.
