Well if you go to Stella for the third set of shots, let me know and perhaps we can get the puppies together. That would be a lot of fun!

Yes, Zola is one of the tri's. How about Zuni, is she a tri too, or red & white?

How have your older B's been with accepting Zuni into the household? Are they pretty accepting? We took Zola back to Stella to get her second series of shots, and Jewel and the other two females were right on top of Zola letting her know that they were in charge. They wouldn't let her walk around for about 1/2 an hour, then they lightened up and let her play.

Rivermoon, that is so cool that you have one of Zola's litter mates. Are all four of your dogs basenji's? If so, you must be an expert on the breed. The two in your avatar are beautiful. Perhaps someday we can get Zuni and Zola together for a play date.

I'm surprised how many of the Basenji's have names that start with "Z". When we named Zola, I had no idea. We thought of naming her Lola at first. Our cat is named Zuka, so I suggested Zola and everyone seemed to like it. So now we have Zuka and Zola. It can be difficult when you are trying to remember which one you are calling. LOL.

I appreciate all the input.

We are very diligent about getting Zola outside to pee also. When she comes out of her crate, after sleeping/napping, after playing, etc. But since we are a family, there are times when we are caught up in homework, cooking dinner, doing a bath for the little, etc. and we miss the window. We realize that is not Zola's mistake, but ours for not paying attention to her or the time since she last went out.

She is a great pup, but she is strong headed. One big challenge is with our 5 year old. He wants to hug and lover her, but all he gets in return is a chewing. Zola doesn't bother the rest of us with the biting much, but with the 5 year old she seems to take advantage of him and his inablilty to control the situation properly. But if she is sleeping, she is happy to curl up next to him.

I saw something in a different post that has me curious who others are handling this. We have given Zola free rein to jump up on the couch and sleep or sit with us. In the other post someone mentioned only letting the dog on the couch when the dog is asked to be on the couch. What are other doing in this situation? I would really like to know. At this point Zola just jumps up at anytime she wants to. I think it would be difficult to change that behavior now. But if we should I want to get started on it now.

Thanks again everyone.

Thanks for the breeder links. I have sent them emails.

I hadn't heard of litter box training for puppies. Interesting. But no, our puppy was not litter trained.

Her breeder is Stella Sapios. I'm not sure what litter training is? Do you mean cat litter, or puppy litter?

We didn't get housetraining articles, but we had purchased a housetraing book as well as a Basenji breed book. We read them front to back several times before we brought our puppy home.

I'm sure you are correct, she is still a puppy, and still learning about the house training. Her behavior at that moment seemed to deliberate to me. I'm sure I am just projecting onto her. My bad.

lvoss, where are you in California? Let me know if you know any good trainers in the Ventura area. We want to start Zola in a puppy class as soon as possible. She is excellent at "sit" and she is doing a good job on the leash. She is distracted easily on her walks, but she is young and it is a big new world out there right now. We have friends with dogs so she is getting some social skills too. But a puppy class would be great for our boys to be involved with and be part of the training.

We have a 13 week old female tri named Zola. We are a family of four; parents and two boys 10 & 5, plus a cat.

We have been working on the potty training since the day we brought Zola home. She has a grassy spot in our back yard where she is always taken to do her business. Since we live in SoCal we leave a back door open so that she can let herself out to go potty, which she does occassionally, she is still learning. The rest of the time we take her out to her spot and have her go potty, and she is very good about it.

Yesterday she went in the house 4 times. This morning while I was getting dressed for work, she was getting into my closet wanting to drag things off to play. I told her "no" several times and each time redirected her toward the door. After the third time, she turned her back to me and started going pee on the floor! I told her "no", picked her up and put her outside.

So my questions is… Will a Basenji pee right in front of you if she is angry at you for some reason? Can they be spiteful?

We give her so much love and attention. I don't understand?

Any insight on the issue, and correcting the behavior would be appreciated.

Thanks!