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Help! I have a rescued Basenji, that we got about a month ago. We think he's about 3 years old. Previously we had 2 Basenji's that we raised from pups to old age, so we're not new to the Basenji antics. Oliver has a problem in that when we start to play, he gets so rambunctious that he starts nipping… hard. There's no growling involved, but he gets so worked up and fixated on what he's doing that he's hard to stop. if you get him away from you, he just moves on to the next person. Neither of our other dogs did this. I'm assuming it's a dominance thing, but don't know how to stop it. We're not aggressively playing with him so that he feels threatened, but that Basenji switch goes off and all of a sudden his hair's on fire, he's going 100 mph, and then he starts nipping.