Everyone needs to talk about a spay/neuter... while in Europe it is not the "norm" to do so... however in the US it is.... that said waiting till the pup is mature is the best... but in the US we have issues with puppymills and Backyard breeders that breed/sell pups for profit... My contracts say that the pup needs to be spayed/neutered... and we talk about the age. Again, I will say that my puppy people are "Vetted" before getting a puppy, but many Puppymiller puppies and/or Backyard Breeders could not care if those pups were bred or not... nor are they health tested... so as they say "buyer beware". Responsible breeders stay in touch with the pups they place... the others... NOT... could not care less... OK I said my 2cents... And many in the US are not ready to keep a female that is in season... a short story about a friend that had 2 German Shepards... Male/Female in tact.... female came in season, so they locked to male in the backyard, female in their garage... the male "ate down the door to the garage to get to the female..".... puppies happened... no health testing either... IT HAPPENS... DO NOT THINK THAT IT WILL NOT! And I can tell you stories about males coming through windows in the home to get to a bitch in season....years ago we had a 12yr in-tact male lab 3 blocks over, he knew exactly when my Basenji bitches were in season... thankfully we had 12ft fences... but he was there every single day... not so for many homes that have fences this big... and if this boy was younger... I can bet he would have found a way over the fence
My B Scared me to DEATH!!
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AWW man, this one night when my husband was on duty and i was alone. i was reading a book and Jack was DEAD asleep at the end of the bed (I believe he was snoring) and it was rather quiet and late at night. All the sudden, Jack sits STRAIGHT up raises the hair on his back, and Stares at the left corner of our room and sā¦l...o...w...ly follows Something to the right corner of our room, then lays back down and goes to SLEEP!!! I ABOUT had a heart attack!!!:eek: i was SOOO freaked out that i woke him back up, turned on the TV and left the lights on that night (and forced Jack to sleep next to me) I'm over it now, that was MONTHS ago. and hasn't happened again since, BUT HONESTLY, it was the SCARIEST thing Ive ever had to go thru!!!! I don't think i believe in ghosts, but who knows what it was!!
HAVE YOU EVER HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN??!!
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Any time I'm alone at night with or without my dog(s), anything can scare me. It is a fight or flight situation when the imagination goes wild. Duke hears outside noises and freaks if it isn't normal. So - I love having a dog that alerts me for safety, but even better if they bark (Duke bark-barks) What better reason to have a dog? IMO- It is normal to have fear, be it furry or not. Keep your car keys (for panic) and cell phone (911) close at all times.
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Do you think he might've been sleepwalking? Or in basenji termsā¦sleep stalking?
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My male scared the crap out of my wife & myself. In the middle of the night I hear a man screaming like he's getting knifed to death. Loud blood curdling screaming!
I go down stairs and find the dog in his crate looking at me like "what?"
I never heard ANYTHING like that.
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I'm not sure about Ghosts
but they definitely hear things we don't sometimes. It's strangeā¦my little C3PO is my radar for sure..when I see his ears perk up I know something's up :eek: :eek: he could be past out asleep but he'll be UP in a jiffy! -
I guess its a good thing, but i wish he had done it when someone was with me, so i wouldn't have been so scared!!! It was like he saw something i couldn't go from one side of the room to the other. And if he hadn't had his hackles up, i dont think i would have been so affected by it.
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Do you think he might've been sleepwalking? Or in basenji termsā¦sleep stalking?
I thought that, but his eyes were definatly WIDE open and Hackles upā¦he was awake...
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My male scared the crap out of my wife & myself. In the middle of the night I hear a man screaming like he's getting knifed to death. Loud blood curdling screaming!
I go down stairs and find the dog in his crate looking at me like "what?"
I never heard ANYTHING like that.
WEIRDā¦so it was your dog that made the noise? i wonder how, just a high pitch yodel i guess??
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N o it was him. It was a dark deep scream that was human in nature.
Like they describe here-
http://basenji.20m.com/ReasonsNottoGet.htmI have never heard anything even remotely like that coming out of him. He had to be having a really bad dream to scream like that. Or his tail got caught in his crate bars?
his tail will not uncurl
He won't tell us though
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LOLā¦I dont think Jack has ever made a noise like that...It would scare me to death tooo
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Well, if it was a ghost, know that Jack was there to protect youā¦.hackels and all.....
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yeah, "NO quick moves dead floating guy or ill Get'Cha!!"
lolā¦
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What are Hackles?
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it's when all the hair stands up on their back
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i swear my boy sees ghosts all the time - he will be laying in the hall and then get up and go to the living room and start to play - i swear with someone but no one is there - he runs into another room, runs back, looks around - it's nuts - i always tell my b to tell them to go to the light! LOL!
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I have had a couple of basenjis that howled occasionally in their sleep. That is really spooky, a long, low mournful howl, sitting up but asleep. I have never heard one scream while asleep. Our first screamer would do it to let you kow where he was, and that he wanted you to come to him. Sounds like what your boy did in the middle of the night! And it is nothing like a howl or yodel, it is a bloodcurdling scream!
Anne in Tampa
