Our club sends yearly donations to Karen Jones’ Medfly Basenji Rescue.
Here’s a note from Karen to our treasurer, Karen Sahulka.

Hi Karen

Chuck and I and our many kidlets thank you so much for thinking of us. I will never forget that first donation from the Rip Van Wrinkle Club. It was a total surprise and meant so much to us that a club so far away recognized what we were doing out here to help Basenjis in need. I don’t know if your club received our end of the year update, not for the entire year but some of our happenings in the last few months. If not, I would be happy to send you our story. Last year was a good year with some great pooches and wonderful homes merging together. This year so far has seen the good and the bad. We picked up four Basenjis, one very happy big tri boy and three gals, who had been chained on overhead cables their entire lives. All three gals had had litters in our very cold (by California standards) December and all litters died. There was virtually no shelter, just old doghouses with holes on the floors and sides so the cold winds and our very wet December took a huge toll. We were on hold for over a month as to when and if these four were coming to us and had no idea what the Basenjis would be like. Finally word came to pick them up and we ended up with four sweethearts. All of these as well as a handsome big guy we named Chad and our newest little guy named Lewi need to go in for their spaying/neutering, rabies, and microchipping. Lewi was in Devore Shelter in quarantine and was not available for adoption since he chomped the person who caught him as a stray. Fortunately there is a wide network of all breed rescues we work with and an incredible woman met us there at 10 am on a Monday morning with the special credentials for bailing him out for us. Lewi would have been killed without the efforts and connections of many in the rescue community out here. Chuck and I have both fallen head over heels in love with this charming little gentleman who purrs when he is being held. Not quite the nasty pooch he introduced himself as to the man from animal control.

Not only is the bad breeder of the chained dogs out of business (he is in jail for shooting out the back window of his departing girl friend’s car with four children in it in a residential neighborhood!) but our puppy mill in Anza who used the Cambria name for years reportedly had no pups this year. In addition the horrible woman who had dumped four Basenjis that we know of over three years to be killed has received her Karma…her house has been foreclosed. Not that we celebrate people’s misfortunes but we cheer for the lessening of every chance for Basenjis to be in trouble.

 

Elfu, a 15 pound boy. Chad in the foreground. One gorgeous guy who has come a long way.

 

Hadithi, the happy boy who came in with his harem of three. Little Jana. One of the gals. So young to have had pups.

 

Kanzi got torn up just before we rescued these four.
Super sweet. Ishi has obviously been producing pups for several years.

These pics were taken on their first day here and they are looking quite a bit better and feeling more secure.

Our sweet, handsome and ever so skinny Lewi on his first day.

All our info is the same and we can assure you that every penny will be used to help prepare these kidlets for their new happier lives as well as caring some of our other kidlets waiting for their homes. Thanks again for thinking of our kidlets and helping them get ready for their new families.

Karen Jones

Basenji Rescue of California

PO Box 93

Acton, CA 93510

Tel: (661) 269-2364 ~ Email: karen@basenjirescue.com