My boy is a real escape artist, and I mean real - Julius K9, loads that people have recommended as being for 'Houdini dogs'. He also chews through leashes, including a beautiful, very expensive leather and brass….which he neatly chewed into 8 inch lengths when I was foolish enough to leave it below 6 feet up....the only thing I trust my boy to be tethered in is his current harness - a Ruffwear Webmaster. For walking, yes, a martingale (and oddly enough, Butu has never worked the trick when slack), but I'd definitely not trust him tethered. I'd get him one of these, and probably a chain and trust him in an open stall where he can see you and you can chat....I'd make the chain long enough that he could stand in the entrance, but could go inside the stall if he wants a sleep, drink, food from his bowls....do not let him near tack, horses feeding stuff, horse's anything - and I'd be cautious about hay too.... Chealsie508 - have you tried these (Ruffwear Webmaster?) If this hadn't worked I was going for a Ruffwear Doubleback, which costs a serious amount of money (but when I think of the number of useless harnesses I've bought..) but is the nearest thing I've seen to a doggie straitjacket - it's used by those people who drag labradors rock climbing....
http://www.ruffwear.co.uk/dog-gear/harnesses/doubleback-harness
Basenjis and Rain
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My adults can "hold it" for many hours, will eventually go out back when they are about to burst.
It rarely rains all day long, and even then there are light periods. We run up to the dog park and toss them in, they will pee and poop in about 30 seconds then be ready to get back in the car (we are lucky, the dog park is only a mile from home). I can't drag them out on leash, they just put on the brakes and won't go.
In really bad weather, when it does rain all day, we drive up to a long highway overpass, get out and walk up and down as cars whiz by overhead. The dogs are pretty quick here, too!
Anne in Tampa
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I forgot to add, you can hold an umbrella low over the pup, to keep the rain off the head, and she will probably go out to potty without any issues. Keep telling her what a good girl she is when she ignores the wet grass!
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Mine won't go out off leash when it's raining or looks like rain. I have to take them on leash out to the stream to potty. Go figure.
Ditto. If mine didn't absolutely love leash walks, they'd never leave the house when its raining. Won't go out right after a rain either, or a heavy dew on the grass, or a recently watered lawn.
Katie isn't quite a bad as Ty, but she's still pretty particular.
I HATE RAINY SEASONS!!!
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Oh my - seems from your replies that some B's are stalwart and will put up with the weather, but more do not like the rain at all. I can only hope her standing at the door occurs before or after the rainstorms! Otherwise, it will be doing like MacPack, driving to a dog park - although they are all much further from me, and tossing her into it. Maybe like my friend once said - first year or so, they drive you crazy - then, all of a sudden, miracle dog appears!
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yes, when its raining, they will not get wet unless I get wet with them.
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yes, when its raining, they will not get wet unless I get wet with them.
Yup… that is how a Basenji mind works!!!!
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Typically if you walk you B when raining they will go…. but you have to go with them...gggg
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yes, when its raining, they will not get wet unless I get wet with them.
Good point…if I were to leave my 3 to their own devices in the rain, Liyah (puppy) and Brando would do their business, Ruby, I have my doubts. I always go with them in the rain...walks or out in the open in the yard.
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For the first couple of months of having Jazz live here, I got more wet trying to get her to go out in the rain to potty than she did, I swear. She's four now and on rainy days I STILL have to step out on the porch and insist she go potty. LOL
Keoki just gives a reluctant look and takes off to pee and get it over with. He's always had less a problem with it than Jazz.
But then, she IS a princess…... LOL.... or at least she thinks she is and rather expects to be treated like royalty.
Keoki's just a regular guy and doesn't have any great expectations -- he just wants to be loved. -
I recently spent 6 months in Florida with my 11 year old B. She hates the rain, but it just makes her go outside and do her business faster. I also have to coax her to go outside. I walk her in the rain though. It takes her a bit to accept that we are going on a walk. She looks at me like I'm crazy. Non the less we go outside. I did notice that she gained weight through the rainy season because of the dislike, so I watched her feedings more closly. Then comes the dry season and she's fine. Even in the pouring rain she walks around puddles. She will stand at the waters edge but not go in. I have seen them in the keys up to their tummies though. I guess it depends on the B.
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or so Princess Basenji Sahara thinks, she hates the rain, but if I go out with her and hold the umbrella over her she will go, and fast at that. I have seen her hold it almost all day and I would go to the steps and she would go when she is about to burst, but most of the time she wants the umbrella. My neighbors look at me like I am crazy, but then they don't have the love of a Basenji, it is like no other dog.
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@simba's_mom:
My basenji Simba absolutley hate to rain, and refuses to go out if it is raining. If there are puddles on the ground he always walks around them never through them. I know all b's are diffrent, so hopefully ur b wont be a hater of the rain!
This is exactly how Bella feels about rain!!!:eek:
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Kananga must be part of the minority. He walks right through puddles, even when there's a clear path around them.
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Mine have never liked the rain and would refuse to go outside at all – cajoling time.
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I rush home from work sometimes if I know it's going to rain so I can take them out before it starts. lol.
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If I'm home I do the same thing-Quick! get them out! It looks like it's going to rain any minute!
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Both boys here, hate rain.. They are very very angry when the have to go out in the rain (in hollands thats often!)
Buana gets his jacket on..But chafuko loves to swim in every water (till his feet don't feel the ground hahah)
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When Zak was a puppy I made sure to take him out a lot in the rain and tried to make it seem like a fun thing to do. Although he doesn't love it, he will go out.
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My first two beasties hated going outside in the rain - I usually had to go out in the yard with them and hold an umbrella :(; eventually the spruces grew big enough to provide cover. My current pup doesn't seem to mind it - but she hasn't experienced a hard rain yet either.
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When it rains I normally have to pull colbey out of the doory, once he gets outside he quickly does his business so he can get back inside faster. Once back inside he promptly licks himself dry. Over the past year he's gotten more comfortable with water and its less of a struggle to get him outside in the rain. He even voluntarily gets his front feet wet in the pond (usually when he is trying to figure out what our mutt is doing wading in the pond).
