@sky-hunter said in Male Basenji dripping Urine constantly 😞:
@giza1 Thank you so much for your reply do you have any experience with the medicine Vetoquinol for male dogs?
No, sorry, I do not.
-Joanne
Large headed males
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He did not have a microchip nor was he tattooed. Nearly every day we still wonder how someone could let such a great guy get away…
Was it an elderly couple who let him escape out the door and who aren't savvy enough to use the internet? Surely it wasn't that he wasn't loved... But I don't understand how with all today's technology, if you wanted to find him, you didn't.... His mugshot was on the first page of Petfinder for pete's sake! Maybe he was picked up several times and ended up being a zillion miles from 'home'... He had been on the run for a while- he was in pretty bad shape. But he was well loved for at least part of his life- he is pretty trained, and obviously came from a reputable breeder (no dewies)... I just can't understand. I ask him all the time if he misses his other home... I think the person who really loved him was male. When we first brought him home all he cared about was my hubby. He'd totally follow him around and just gaze at him, ready to do his bidding. He only wanted to snuggle with hubby, etc. I was like, "WHAT?! You DO realize that I saved you with MY money and that Daddy had to be convinced to let ME do so... right?? You didn't even come from Joint Checking!!" And the first night when he and Lexi got into a fight that drew blood, I thought OMG, what have I done? But hubby had done a 180-- he was like, no, he's a good dog and he'll work out, etc. -A far cry from the "I don't want another dog at all, I'm only doing this for you" he was saying just the day before (which was crap bc I knew he would love another dog).
Anyways, what kennel is up there? I wish we knew something about his former life… Let's take guesses at what transpired...
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Your right, a great dog like Miles is prabably a run away or escaped on vacation or something. No one in there right mind would just abandon such a great dog, obviously well bred & trained.
I saw a show on animal planet rescue stories where a lady found a stray dog, felt in her heart, it was someones dog and spent two years contacting vets, breeders ect in there area, then in the state. It took two years and was about to give up, when someone she called- the person overheard someone else talking about their sister's missing dog that sounded just like her dog. It turned to be the dog's owner after 2 years!
The person who lost the dog said it ran away, could not find it, then they moved.
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And then the question becomes… Do you feel obligated to give 'your' dog back to the previous owner after that long... IMO, Milesy's MINE!!! MWHAHAHAHHA
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Here is my opinion of a great bitch head….. correct sized ears that are "hooded", however they could be a tad higher set of the head... and she could use a little side wrinkle
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and here is a male head, note again the ears are hooded… I think more then size we are loosing the "hooded" ears that the standard calls for....
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None of my Bs have had the "hooded" ears. Of course–Max was pet quality, and I'm not sure what Tyler and Zoey are. But I really love the standing up straight ears.
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Here's what the AKC has to say:
Head
The head is proudly carried. Eyes–Dark hazel to dark brown, almond shaped, obliquely set and farseeing. Rims dark. Ears--Small, erect and slightly hooded, of fine texture and set well forward on top of head. The skull is flat, well chiseled and of medium width, tapering toward the eyes. The foreface tapers from eye to muzzle with a perceptible stop. Muzzle shorter than skull, neither coarse nor snipy, but with rounded cushions. Wrinkles appear upon the forehead when ears are erect, and are fine and profuse. Side wrinkles are desirable, but should never be exaggerated into dewlap. Wrinkles are most noticeable in puppies, and because of lack of shadowing, less noticeable in blacks, tricolors and brindles. Nose--Black greatly desired. Teeth--Evenly aligned with a scissors bite. -
I forgot to mention–yes--I agree--that Miles is a handsome devil. And I loved following the story of Miles and BDawg and BasenjiBoy. It just warms my heart to hear stories like this that have such happy endings. Oh--and that Lexi is a little beauty, too. Such lucky dogs.
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Here is my opinion of a great bitch head….. correct sized ears that are "hooded", however they could be a tad higher set of the head... and she could use a little side wrinkle
Very pretty head…particularly the shape of the eye, and the size and set of the ears
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BDawg-they would have to pry that dog from your dying hands
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This is a pic of my Baron's head. (Sorry its so small but enlarging it made it blurry.) This boy oozes masculinity. He possesses many of the traits that are becoming hard to find such as hooded ears, cushions, side wrinkle, perceptible stop, and muzzle shorter than skull. The nice wrinkle and pleasant expression adds to his appeal. Yep, I love this boy's head.
His ears are relaxed in this pic but it shows his wrinkle and sidewrinkle better than the above pic.
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Wow that is a great looking male!
He looks totally different than Miles
I never realized how varied Basenji's can be till I came here. At dog shows most look the same, sometimes you will find one that is a true vintage looking basenji- smaller ears, lots of wrinkles & tougher looking over all.
But I love them all
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I have Baron's brother Nicky, their niece Rally, and her daughters Rio and Sophie. Around here I see lots of variation in the heads in the show ring. I think when it comes to heads there is a lot of different interpretations of just what the standard means.
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I have Baron's brother Nicky, their niece Rally, and her daughters Rio and Sophie. Around here I see lots of variation in the heads in the show ring. I think when it comes to heads there is a lot of different interpretations of just what the standard means.
I totally agree Lisa. Heads can look very different, but still be correct to the standard. I really like some very different (from each other) heads…but a few things really stand out as important to me...eye shape, wrinkle, underjaw, and ear shape.
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Yes, but if you go back to the TRUE vintage basenji...those is Africa, there are no small ears there! Ears are terribly important to animals hunting in deep, dark cover like jungle. The bigger they are, the better the receive and triangulate sound...and the bigger they are, the better they cool the blood; ears are thin, but carry a lot of vascularity, so lots of blood goes thru the ear and is cooled by the outside temps....that is why most mammals in hot climates have large ears..unless they have another way to cool (humans sweat, hippos bathe, etc) anyhow...blah, blah, blah...
I am not advocating going to giant radar dish ears in the standard...but I don't think that small ears is a "true" basenji quality. -
Interesting - I do like a smallish ear as called for in the standard although if you look at the standards of many other breeds of dogs in hot climates - they are larger as Andrea indicated for cooling.
I am more concerned with a couple of other things in our breed that are not so superficial. It's shoulders being set too far front, too upright and a short upper arm. What you end up with then is a B with what is called a catherdral front. As in you could park a church steeple between the front legs. This rusults in less room for lungs, less 'reach' so you will sometimes see fronts getting tangled up with rear if there is a good angle there.
It seems that more and more of our animals that are 'mature' (3-5) are looking as undeveloped as our puppies.
I'm not advocating bulldog fronts - but I do like to see something there.
The other thing is too little under jaw - you then get some heads looking awfully snippy and pointing nosed.
Oh well - I can't speak for the rest of you but I think in my kennel I have some very good parts that sometimes are not all on the same dog!
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Ah Yes…. I think any breeder can say that.... I have all the right parts, too bad they are on different dogs!
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Yes, I agree! But I was just listing things important to me for heads. Fronts are definitely a weak point right now for us, IMO.
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I agree..that is something that I really don't like...
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dmcarty, The dog in your pic is gorgeous. I went to your website but it does not have more pics of your dogs- can you post some more of your babies??
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I will try to find more - many of my pics were on a photo site that closed with no notice - so it's sort of a find them on my old computer and transfer.
The guy in the pic is CH Jacque Chewztoes - he's a cool guy that does have a chest
and a nice Masculine head. You can find a couple more pictures of him on Dogster. I think I posted some puppy pics in the galery but maybe not.????
