Made it to the UKC PREMIERE!!!
All is right in Aggie’s world, she has her emotional support squeaking tennis balls 🎾😂🎾
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Dogs in general can be prone to resource guard, whether an object, a person, or a favorite sleeping spot. Many basenjis that end up either returned to breeders or dumped in rescue or shelters comes down to them biting due to resource guarding. Prevention is KEY with this common issue.
One of the MOST IMPORTANT things you can teach your new puppy is resource guarding prevention techniques.
This is done most effectively in a training type scenario to start, and then can be reinforced during every day life and activities. The video is how I start resource guarding prevention practice with my pups. They learn the foundation and basics for my taking what they have and rewarding them for giving it up, and then they get it back. I transition to not giving it back every time once they have the basics, because sometimes what I will need to take away can be dangerous or just not something they’re supposed to have. You can also pair a “drop it” command with this training.
I do not practice resource guarding prevention with their food dish, my dogs are fed in crates so that they don’t have to feel protective over their food from anyone or any other dogs. Some behaviorists also have claimed that “messing with the dog’s food” can increase resource guarding tendencies but without the warning grumble, just straight to a bite or nip instead.
When practicing resource guarding prevention with my pups consistently, I am also able to pick up their food or be around their food dish without issue, but they never see my presence around their items/food as a negative thing.
Resource guarding prevention should be a skill worked on daily when you bring your puppy home for the first several weeks, and then reinforced at least weekly through the first year of life. Once they have the basics down, you can use opportunities in every day life to reinforce the good behavior.
If your dog is chewing on their bone or playing with their toy and you come in the room, walk up, t
Teaching your puppy bite inhibition!
Teaching your puppy not to bite and bite inhibition!
Puppy Biting!
Ideally (and in theory) puppies who stay with littermates until 12 weeks tend to learn not to bite so hard because their littermates and adult dogs in the home generally teach them that biting hard isn’t actually fun. Often times this works but sometimes you’ll have a high drive puppy who is more challenging, a puppy who didn’t stay with their littermates to learn this crucial skill, or a puppy that just doesn’t make the connection between fur and fingers very well.
Many people say yelping, screaming, or yelling “OUCH” works when the puppy bites (similar to what their littermates would do), but I’ve found this only encourages or instigates my guys to play and bite harder. It may work for some, just not me. I do not recommend adverse methods like biting the puppy back, gripping their snout hard, shoving my fingers in their mouths, pushing their gums into their teeth, spraying with water, or any other method meant to startle, scare, hurt or intimidate the puppy because depending on where your puppy is developmentally and emotionally, adverse actions can have a life long lasting negative effect.
When my pups are biting me too hard I say “no bite” and I pick them up and “turn the bitey part away” meaning if they’re facing me, I pick them up and turn them to facing away from me and hold them in the position (with their feet on the ground) until they have calmed down a bit. So if they’re twisting and struggling to get away or trying to turn back around to bite me, I hold firmly (but gently, I’m not hurting the puppy) until they have calmed down and relaxed, and then I offer something appropriate to chew on before releasing them. This isn’t something I invented, but something I learned through Puppy Culture and implementing Puppy Culture protocols when raising our puppies.
Some may say just hand them something appropriate to chew on immediately but I’ve learned this creates mixed signals in the sense that the puppy may
BetMe proving that basenjis CAN bark, they just generally do not due to the effort required, but sometimes circumstances call for a good bark fest 😂
This just proves basenjis are smart enough to figure out anything they want to, including how to go against breed anatomy and fairly continuously bark!
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Welcome to spring…..
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*sound on*
Enjoy the pack of coyotes a bit too close for comfort to my fence line….and me yelling at the dogs to NOT go up to the edge of the fence 😂 I hear the coyotes nearly every night, just not always THIS close 😱
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Basenji play time!
The “one year olds” teaching the 8 week olds how much fun cat toys are to play with!! Everyone had a blast! Poor Aggie gets a bit defensive of the puppies even though they don’t need defending, she thinks no one else should be allowed to play with them lol. Obviously all play time among adults and babies is closely supervised!! (By humans, not just Aggie 😂)
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The “one year olds” teaching the 8 week olds how much fun cat toys are to play with!! Everyone had a blast! Poor Aggie gets a bit defensive of the puppies even though they don’t need defending, she thinks no one else should be allowed to play with them lol. Obviously all play time among adults and babies is closely supervised!! (By humans, not just Aggie 😂)
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The “Puppy Call” is a great way to instill an automatic recall command with puppies. Using this “call” in association with VERY POSITIVE experiences such as meal time and play time creates an involuntary automatic response in the puppies to want to follow or come to the Puppy Call. It even works on adults years later!!
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Working on nail trimming desensitization with the puppies. I use a dremel on my adults, but this baby nail grinder is perfect for starting the babies out. All pups handled nail time with ease and no complaints! Desensitization and habituation to basic nail care will help tremendously in the long run as you won’t have an adult dog who fights you to get their nails done!
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Aggie LOVES playing with the basenji puppies!
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Agatha is definitely a water dog and the basenjis steer clear! ❤️🐕❤️
Aggy LOVES to run and play with the basenjis! She sounds tough, but she’s just a very vocal puppy. The basenjis LOVE playing with her too!!
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Here is tonight’s playful shenanigans before dinner time and bedtime. Puppies are really learning to play, wrestle, and terrorize each other 😂 pups are 5.5 weeks old now and personalities are really starting to show. We may have snow Friday, so we will be able to expose them to that too…even if just for a short time 😉 The more exposures to different things they can get during this time the better off they will be in the long run!
Our waiting list is CLOSED as all these puppies are already reserved, we will NOT be taking additional names for this 2021/2022 breeding season. For information on future potentials, please see our website for details on our processes and waiting list steps.
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*sound on*
Pinot (aka Mini cause she’s the smallest) had a lot to say this evening...wonder if she heard me say all the babies are going home this weekend!
*all pups reserved*
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Dinner tonight, placed the dishes in the front so you get faces instead of butts lol.
*all pups reserved*
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