I am glad to hear of her improvement. Sometimes we live with dogs and don't see the changes they start so slow. It's good to make it a habit to actually inspect them monthly. I hope she keeps improving but as Sally said, too much weight gain isn't good.
Tail wagging
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We have 3 Basenjis. Two older litter mates, a boy and a girl almost 7 and one puppy about 8 months old who is a girl. The older boy will only occaisionally give a little wag, usually when we have him sitting prior to getting a treat or tossing him a ball. Our older girl wags a ton when we first come home and any time she is happy and excited but it moves maybe an inch either way tops. The new puppy wags her tail even more, almost completely side to side.
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I had a bitch once who really didn't wag her tail but she used it like a propeller. I was certain one day that it would lift her off the floor but it didn't.
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My dog's tail is wagging most all of the time! Doesn't curl tightly but looks most like a big question mark. She'll wag it when she's standing, sitting, or laying down and sometimes spins it like a propeller when stalking squirrels.
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Cheyenne wags hers all the time. Apache, only was when he's playing with Marlowe.
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Here's an example of some tail wagging. We call it "Belly Dancing" when she really gets into it since her whole torso is wagging too!
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Zoe's tail is curled when she wags, which is a lot! It looks adorable.
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Hi, My Zoe is a B mix also. She is 1/2 Jack Russel, 1/2 Basenji. She is a great pooch. What type of mix is your pup?
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Tail Wagging?? My Duna never wags at us, but you know she's pleased to see us as she comes up to you with her ears down and has a grin on her face. she wags just a little, when she meets other dogs, but just slightly. Will she wag as an adult? I do miss those happy wagging doggy tails!!!!
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Tail Wagging?? My Duna never wags at us, but you know she's pleased to see us as she comes up to you with her ears down and has a grin on her face. she wags just a little, when she meets other dogs, but just slightly. Will she wag as an adult? I do miss those happy wagging doggy tails!!!!
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Tail is too stiff to wag, and way to undignified.It cant uncurl.
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Otis does wag his tail ever so slightly and he puts his ears down when he greets you, and this morning he said 'Good Morning" when I let him out of his crate….his first "real" (?) Barooo deep from his thoat..yeah.
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All 3 of mine wag their tails…
Brando (tight curl, flips back & forth - not as animated as Liyah's) wags his when he wants to play with Ruby or Liyah or is about to get his dinner.
Ruby (loose one curl, actually moves more than Brando's) only wags hers to welcome me home.
Liyah wags non-stop (tight curl, flips wildly back & forth)...for play, food, attention...anything that makes her happy, which is pretty much everything.
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Gossy's tail is a tight cinnamon bun so it looks odd when she "wags" it - usually only when she's on scent of something and then it just wags kind of slowly (if you can picture what I mean). Sometimes she'll wag it when I come home from work and usually just flattens her ears (makes her look earless :)).
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My Basenji mix died and I'm going to get another soon.. I was wondering: Can you tell when they're only a few months old if they're going to be waggers when they're adults?
My mix wagged his tail pretty much non stop whenever he was standing. He was always really happy. Whether playing, if I had a toy, when I said anything to him, when I got home, when he was following me around, anything. Only time he didn't wag was when he was relaxing, pointing, or eating.
It would be very very weird for me to have a dog that didn't wag their tail. If they wag as a puppy will they wag when grown up? I worry that their tail will change or something and it stops wagging.
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I don't know needless to say since my puppy is only almost 5 months, but he has coinsistantly gotten to be more and more of a wagger. it is so cite to see that cinnamon bun wag ever so slightly on his back, I love it.
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My Basenji mix died and I'm going to get another soon.. I was wondering: Can you tell when they're only a few months old if they're going to be waggers when they're adults?
My mix wagged his tail pretty much non stop whenever he was standing. He was always really happy. Whether playing, if I had a toy, when I said anything to him, when I got home, when he was following me around, anything. Only time he didn't wag was when he was relaxing, pointing, or eating.
It would be very very weird for me to have a dog that didn't wag their tail. If they wag as a puppy will they wag when grown up? I worry that their tail will change or something and it stops wagging.
My 5mo b-pup, Liyah has been a serious wagger since before I took her home at 11 weeks. She still is a big wagger (maybe even bigger)…I don't anticipate that changing as her personality is super happy, outgoing, playful and wiggly. Everyone she meets always comments about how happy she is and practically wiggles out of her skin :D:D. Her personality reminds me so much of another Eldorado bitch I know (Liyah is also from Eldorado, but only distantly related to that girl) that is 2 years old. I anticipate Liyah behaving very similar to this other girl when she is older (the other girl was just like Liyah as a pup).
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Well I wondered because I don't think not wagging their tail doesn't mean they aren't happy. But I like lots of tail wagging showing their happiness..
Thanks though!
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Out of all my B's I only have had a couple that were real tail waggers… baby puppies at about 5 or 6 wks will begin to wag their tails if they are going to be big tail waggers (at least in my litters)... and I agree wiht innociv, not wagging doesn't mean they are not happy puppies/adults...
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and I agree wiht innociv, not wagging doesn't mean they are not happy puppies/adults…
Oh, I completely agree…dogs have many different ways of showing happiness...tail wagging isn't everything.
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I have had, over the years a variety of tail 'expressions' - I had one that her tail would just slightly undulate, several waggers, a couple of tip waggers, and the previously mentioned - helecopter rotar tail. Sometimes it is VERY subtle.
