Originally Posted by
RugosaB
That is soooo true (I raised/bred/showed before my accident) and when I was placing pups. I first told families the bad things about them. If the people still wanted one, they had potential.
Not dogs for dumb people, the way to live with a basenji, is to sometimes outsmart them!
Great post!
When I was growing up, our neighbors (who, quite honestly, weren't the sharpest knives in the drawers even tho they were both college profs) had a Basenji, Red, & he was the terror of the neighborhood. The general consensus was that he was so smart that if he had something to occupy his time/mind/energy, he could be a great little dog, but he was bored out of his skull, so terrorizing man & beast alike was his only outlet. I always felt sorry for him. They weren't mean or anything to him... they just sort of let him co-exist with them.