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My poodle acts like that when he wakes up. My Basenji is asleep in her crate and fireworks are starting to go off now. Happy I saw this now ❤

Nece 😂KUCA😊

I had a Basenji, that never happened that’s crazy!

❤ found you today, we have an 11-year-old Feist mix that looks a lot like your dogs. Considering adopting a 2-year-old basenji. Nervous but excited and these have been very helpful thank you! 💗

What training/food do you recommend or like?

Excellent points and demonstrations!

What a great reminder of the fun and utility of “touch”! It’s something I work on with my border collie, but you’re reminding me here of its many applications and the situations where I can and should be using it. Thanks!!

You’re incredibly thoughtful and forward-thinking in all you do with your dogs. You must have really done your research prior to getting basenjis. Your dogs were lucky you knew about the importance of this counter-conditioning while they were still puppies. It’s just wonderful how you help other basenji owners know what to expect and how to manage and train for the unique characteristics of this breed. You do a great job of filming and I loved seeing all the examples of typical basenji greetings. It is fascinating to see you work with your basenjis. It brings back memories of our basenjis, Emmy and Howdy, of thirty years ago. They were challenging for sure, but also unique and a lot of fun, with two very distinct personalities. Your basenji whose ears repeatedly lie back in a happy expression reminds us of Howdy, our male-just so full of joy and happy to meet new friends.

It is good that the information about this is out there but did you really need to make so many example videos where the resting dogs are being provoked to aggression on purpose...? So not necessary...

Bravo Makena

You gave my hope back. I thought basenjis are so hard to train, that I cant do it, but seeing you, it gave my hopes back :D

I have to visit a breeding farm in France this next week. After watching this video I am thinking about whether to get a puppy or not🤔😏

Only once did my basenji growl at me when he was sleeping.

Wow! Thanks for posting this. We have a 3-year-old girl who acts like this. It really freaked us out in the beginning. We learned never to try and pick her up when we're going to bed. It is interesting to learn this is just part of the breed.

Hi, thanks for these informations. Now I am having a little bit of trouble with my 5-months-old basenji puppy: he doesn't have any form of resource guarding, however he still tends to bite even though we aren't playing and he even spilled blood from my nose and fingers. I immediately stop when he starts biting me during playtime, redirecting his attention to a toy he can bite but it isn't working. Do you have any advices?

I love to see him have so much fun with the training and dancing! He's an exceptional basenji, and you're an exceptional trainer and basenji advocate!

Yes ! I noticed they don’t bark or jump up. Monty especially wants to go up to everyone outside and wants their attention. Ar home, he likes to approach carefully and doesn’t really jump. I will try this training. Love your videos! ❤

Of our two basenjis (35 years ago), it was our female who exhibited this behavior. Sadly, at the time, the advice i received was to punish it. In those days “dominance” theory was the norm. Since punishment obviously didn’t work, we too had to accept and work around it. Our male was easy-going, like Oringo. A real joy and delight he was, “Howdy.” He would yodel his happiness upon seeing an old friend (e.g. his puppy kindergarten teacher). While we still had our basenjis we moved from the suburbs to a house in the country with a huge yard. On the first evening there, Howdy sat down on the front step and let out a great big, joyful yodel! Emmy was very sweet too, when she wasn’t in “wild dog” mode. Thank you for posting this thoughtful and important video! ❤

What an incredibly rich life for your basenjis! Loved seeing contented dogs living a games and rewards-based life with lots of training, love and enrichment. Our two basenjis were my first dogs, over 35 years ago. They were challenging “first dogs,” and we made many training mistakes. I wish I knew then what I know now about positive reinforcement and relationship-based training. I love your set-up for them with a large exercise pen, couch/bed and crate, plus an area to relieve themselves and a big variety of toys! I also love that you give them time for walks and training individually. That’s so important in a multi-dog household, tho I did not know it when I had my two basenjis. Thank you for so beautifully filming a typical day in the life of your lucky dogs!

My basenjis never would swim and one would not even cross a 1 inch stream of water on a path. She could climb, also. No dog odor, quiet and beautiful. Energetic and more cat like. Fastidiously clean. Know, however, that they are independent and not motivated to please the same way as other dogs.

I have had 2 basenjis. You do very well with yours. Beautiful independent dogs that many misunderstand.

It's terrible that fear was induced onto an animal for a video.

Something funny, I saw your one Basenji do what mine does. To the lady in the red sweater, the dog sniffed her breath. My company sometimes are worried my Basenji will lick their face, when she only wants to sniff the breath. Is this a common thing with Basenji's? And what does it mean?

My dog gets mad as F when I wake him up and move him because I need to roll over. He bites but not too hard. It’s best to pet him for a minute first, let him get fully away…..I don’t have a basenji, I have a mini poodle….

Never approach a sleeping dog. Isn't this obvous? I cant believe you call this dog aggression when it is normal for any abinal (human included) to be annoyed and vecome like this when not allowed to sleep though. Dogs are not toys. Have the dogs sleep where they are safe secure and not gling to be bithered.. ensure they get adequate sleep and do not tortire your dogs in this way, please. Aggression here is from the owner and i föund ypur behaviours very inappropriate. it is gow to create a genuonely acgressive dog to do this. If you need to wake someone call their name and if they wake up then they will wake but anylne between sleep and wake will not have full control and not be as capable of maintaining control when provoked whuch at least you recognised you were doing. i think what you showed is on the spectrum of abuse. if any dog is not happy with something respect their communication and gakn their trust and definitely avaoid confrontation. Do not let ypur dog go to sleep somdwhere you arent happy for it to sleep. For a dog to have to sleep where an owner is gling to touch or prod it when half asleep will mean dog cant fully complete the sleep behaviour. Guarding can be a behabiour in any dog. A video on how to create aggression in a dog to my mind. But its good if ypu make the point not to wake a sleeöing dog of any kind and good if you tell visitors not to pet your dog, or dven make eye contact actually unlesscthe doc is indicating they are happy for this to happen.

You dont ukderstand this bevaviour, or their communication, you rag and provoke a dog but any dog between or in sleep anaesthesia will be disinhibized.. if your dog is sleeping leave it alone. this is owner aggression, nit the dog. if you do need tp wake a dog do it by calling their name or some such.. to wake any sleeping dog and to dosregard its clmmunicatoon like this is asking tonget bitten so i dont think ypu shpuld be showing this on yputibe. tjis to my mind is a form of abuse.

Great video. Is there any chance to upload an uncuted version of your entire walk. That would be very exciting to see what really happen during a walk if you are a dog owner. Best regards

I've noticed this kind of behavior in two of my previous Basenji's. Both dogs. My present 4 year old bitch is the opposite. She is very gentle and if she is disturbed she'll normally want a cuddle and then lick me to death. She is very affectionate.

Wow. 😮 never seen that. My Basenji even when sleeping you bother him move him kiss him push him off my bed etc , he’s the most tolerant dog I have ever seen. I’m so grateful. I believe I own the best Basenji in the world ! 😂

У нас таких проблем вообще нет. Он сам выбирает место где ему удобно в зависимости от того где мы. И наоборот любит, когда его гладят.

I think I'm going to cry LOL I have a 2 year old male Basenji he looks almost identical to yours. I'm thinking about getting him some company. You may have just pushed me over the edge

Hello, thank you for the helpful videos! What brand/model enclosure is that? Most of them I see have horizontal bars, which the Basenji's can step on to escape. I can't really find one with vertical bars only like that.

This is absolutely adorable!!!!! I gotta teach my dogs to do this. The youngster needs some love from her dad.

this is very helpful - we got Rory as a 15 month old and she's overwhelmed with the non-Kennel life and is going into the zoomies/nipping phase. She is our sixth Basenji - not counting our three litters - I can't wait to go through all of your videos

Hello ! I have been watching your videos for 6+ months now and we adopted a pure bred basenji. Your videos inspired us to create the same “basenji room” and use different types of games you demonstrated. We are not experienced and that’s why we need your help! How can I contact you ? We are having issues with crate training and sleeping all night. We have a 20 week old basenji. Hope to hear from you.

My! I'm so glad my Basenji girl doesn't do this at all. In bed, I always move her slowly and kindly and she is fine with it.

How cute they’re 😂❤😊

My Basenji (Zappi) goes crazy when he meets other dogs and especially small black dogs. he has a blackout and it is incredibly difficult to calm him down after such an encounter. do you have any tips? God vlog btw

Oh my gosh this is so funny. I never seen two basenjis more excited with a bundle of balloons. My first basenji was terrified of balloons and my current two don’t know what to make of them. Basenjis are such silly dogs.

Your explanation in the beginning was spot on. It's very rare my B will chase anything unless he's fixated on it, and even then, if I throw it more than a few meters away from him, he just looks at me like I'm the idiot lol. He'll bring back a toy once or twice if he want's to play tug with it. Otherwise he'll watch it with mild disinterest until it stops moving and then run back without it to play with me instead. I haven't trained fetch at all though. Something I do need to work on is "Stop" and "Off" though. He's usually gotta be told 6 times before he'll listen. ha ha

This channel is useful for me because my dog is a mutt but has a very high "wolfiness" score (aka high primitive dog genetics) so is very similar to your Basenjis. I like that you have so much fun while training. Also, were you ever gymnast? If not, you would probably have been a good one. You have the right body type to be a good gymnast

Hello Ma'am, I'm looking forward to your next film, I see how much heart and work you put into it, I know from my own experience how much patience it costs me with Hugo (he's the only one who's smart, but he's a flax) but I'm not going any further, it's a good lesson you showed today, I'm sure I'll apply it to Hugo's lazy days as well .Kind regards 😊

Interested to know what age this became apparent?

Great advice. I had an extremely smart tri girl. Almost human. She passed one year ago this month at 16. Feels like my mother died again. So empathetic, and intuitive. Almost supernatural. She was very, very well behaved with a fantastic personality. My all-time favorite being. Love you Sensen. My girlie. Thanks for your videos and channel. All the best to you and yours....

very interesting and informative video. i've never heard of sleeptime aggression before. thank you for spreading awareness.

Amazing! WOW! Вы оочень классные! Браво!!!

I am beyond moved by your bond that you've created with Oringo and this freestyle brought me to tears of happiness. Congrats on 1st place!!! <3 <3 <3

How long do you spend training your dogs each day?

Неповторимые! И Оринго, и Лана!!! БРАВО!!!