I gotta agree with Basenjimamma on this. They are fakers when it comes down to it. That said, also, short trips, give much praise when home, then leave again.

All that being said, and fabulous advise it is, My first guy was in a wire crate for about 8 years because I was never sure I could trust him. I come home from work one day and he meets me at the door!!!. I walk into my apartment wondering what destruction to expect and there was none!!! He had not done any…thing that you might expect a basenji to do. From that point on I left him out in my one bedroom apartment everyday with no problems. "Course his best doggie friend around was a Basset Hound" maybe that relaxedness had a bit to do with it.:)

I've had my guy for a while now and he has been quite well behaved in many circumstances….until recently. I have/had a box of tissues on the bottom of my coffee table for a while. Previously he never really paid much attention to it, the last couple of weeks he's been just, what I can only describe as "drive by" snatching tissues. It's actually kinda funny 'cause he goes into that B500 mode and there's just not that much space in the house and I'll get on the floor to play with him and the next thing I see is him snatching a tissue. Then I grab it from him and we play some more with it (yeah,yeah...bad teaching:eek:,)...but he has fun, I have fun..and at the end of the day......anyway, I got tired of him stealing my tissues and found a different place for them. Don't ya' know he's still looking for them. When we do the B500 now he still runs by looking for those tissues, (gosh, wouldn't want to humanize or anything:) - read lots of the forum)...but I think he looks disappointed 'cause they are not there.:D