They are lovely, intelligent, friendly, loyal -- but easily bored and hard to train because of it, and therefore often fall short in the "intelligent dog" tests. They need constant stimulation or they can be destructive, but all the ones we've had have been brilliant. They are intensely devoted to one person, though, and we watched my dad's last one, Doc, simply pine away after dad died. They are quiet and commanding (one we had, Pete, ruled the neighborhood dogs -- they'd bark at everything except him!), but while they don't bark, they CAN "talk," with a lot of emotive sounds.
I'd love to have one again, but Basenji adoption is almost as tough as adopting a kid!
Writer's block is VERY real. Although reading back through this hard-to-get-going ghost story, it's actually not as bad as I thought it was. It may shape up into something, although I'm still struggling with the "short story" format!
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Date: 2012-09-22 11:33 pm (UTC)I'd love to have one again, but Basenji adoption is almost as tough as adopting a kid!
Writer's block is VERY real. Although reading back through this hard-to-get-going ghost story, it's actually not as bad as I thought it was. It may shape up into something, although I'm still struggling with the "short story" format!