New update: Tika is no longer in heat! Yay! Remy got neutered and is doing great! We got a dog trainer to come in assess the situation and she thinks it is starting to improve compared to how I described it when I booked her to come. Only Maia seems to need the muzzle, she seems to be very unsure of the puppy. We are working with her to build her confidence. The puppy doesn’t seem to have any stress with Maia around and won’t start anything. The muzzle is on just in case when I am home alone as I don’t want anything bad to happen when if I can’t separate them. The puppy is getting lots of training time to help her learn how to behave properly. With 2 people here we can have the girls on short leashes and they are fine together. They did have a small altercation of snarling but no biting and no one got hurt. The older female backed down and walked away. As much as I want her to be the top dog it seems that the puppy has a much more dominant personality. If they figure out the pack hierchy hopefully everything will settle down. The trainer says there are no pack instincts in domesticated dogs, but after having 6 basenjis I can’t agree with that in regards to basenjis. We can walk the girls together without muzzles now so I think things are more positive and they seem to be improving every day. When Remy is healed from his neuter I will get the puppy spayed and hope that calms things down even further. So far there is a lot more peace in the house. Please anyone let me know if there is anything else I should be doing to keep these girls on track. Thank you for all your advice and guidance! I am so grateful for this forum as what is normal for other dogs is not so much with these guys!
Basenji vs. Cat…Cat Won
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Chance is back home from the vet. It appears to have been a close call but he will be fine. The vet cleaned out his eye and said to keep ointment on it in the meantime. Guess we are really going to have to monitor playtime between the cat and dog
I've attached a closeup picture of his eye.
~Vanessa
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Poor little guy
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Oh poor baby!! I guess someone's gotta lose in those feline vs. canine battles
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Aw…He'll heal quickly. It looks like his pride may have been damaged. You'll get 'em next time, Chance!
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That was close, but at least it was next to, not on, the eyeball itself.
Our cats have been declawed, but they can still inflict SERIOUS bite wounds, and can do more harm with their back claws than ever with the front. Keoki is DESPERATE to get at them, but I know from experience the results would be quite disastrous for him.
We use gates so the cats get the upstairs and the dogs get the downstairs.
It's working okay so far. Although, our younger cat loves to sit at the stair rail and taunt poor Keoki until he goes near insane. I do worry that one day, he's gonna make it over {or through} that gate. -
Well, we all have these same type of stories so i thought I share a slightly different one. My parents keep Deke when we're away, they have a cat. Deke went over to her with a toy. she just looked at him. He put it on the floor and pushed it closer to her. She just looked at him. Finally he turned and walked away. My parents said he acted totally rejected. She was just too snobby to play !!!!!!!!!! So it doesn't always end in scratches just most of the time.
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isnt that the sweetest baby senji picture you ever saw?
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isnt that the sweetest baby senji picture you ever saw?
I was thinking the same thing–Chance is such a little cutie pie.
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Ouch! My cats always bop Kiora when she gets too frisky with them, but they never use their claws on her. since she is not serious, neither are they. However I always keep a spritzy bottle on hand and find it a great detterent for either cats or basenji. My coyote mix Ananda though would happily kill any one of them (cats) so I keep her seperate from them. On a previous occasion when she broke through the barrier my cat Gaudiur sliced off the tip of one of her ears and escaped without injury. It seemed painfull to me but she didn't even notice..except for then I cleaned it.
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There's a lot of roughousing between She-Ra (the
and Booger and Monkey (the cats). Monkey loves it to a point, and then will get up high where the dog can't bother him. Plus they both have gated rooms they can get into that the dog can only watch and wish from. Booger, however is an older cat and he ain't playin! All he really wants is to be left alone by the dog, but I think She-Ra really likes Booger and wants to be friends with him, so she doesn't quite get why he swats at her when she's just sniffing him. Oh well…no war wounds to report as of yet.
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There's a lot of roughousing between She-Ra (the
and Booger and Monkey (the cats). Monkey loves it to a point, and then will get up high where the dog can't bother him. Plus they both have gated rooms they can get into that the dog can only watch and wish from. Booger, however is an older cat and he ain't playin! All he really wants is to be left alone by the dog, but I think She-Ra really likes Booger and wants to be friends with him, so she doesn't quite get why he swats at her when she's just sniffing him. Oh well…no war wounds to report as of yet.
Aw, She-Ra sounds so sweet and in need of a playmate. Maybe Booger (love that, BTW) will come around. Thank goodness no war wounds yet…
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Chance has not really learned his lession. (ARGH)
He and the cat still go after eachother. Alex and I have been quick to stop any horsing around
On another note though…his eye won't heal. He keeps scratching it. I've been putting ointment on it for days but everytime he is crated, I come home to a open wound. Hmmmm.
I am really hesitant about applying liquid stitch. Its too close to his eye and has a ton of chemicals in it. -
@Vanessa626:
Chance has not really learned his lession. (ARGH)
He and the cat still go after eachother. Alex and I have been quick to stop any horsing around
On another note though…his eye won't heal. He keeps scratching it. I've been putting ointment on it for days but everytime he is crated, I come home to a open wound. Hmmmm.
I am really hesitant about applying liquid stitch. Its too close to his eye and has a ton of chemicals in it.You might have to resort to the e-collar if he will not leave it alone, which will stop him from scratching with his feet, but also rubbing it against something to scratch it. And I would not put anything on there that close to the eye…
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hi, try some neolsporin for his scraches you can use it on cats, dogs. and people can use it too. my vet told me about it and he deals with basenji's allthe time .!. it's like 5.00bucks and the 200.!!
