Barb Kunze

At a recent dog show, I was waiting for a photo, so Rod had Jamani with him. He went into the bathroom stall with Jamani. Another guy came in, dropped his pants - which happened to have his bait attached.

Jamani dove under the stall, grabbed the bait and the guy is yelled, "no, no, no...."

Rod yelled at Jamani too.

The guy saved half his bait and fortunately had a sense of humor. Rod said they were both laughing pretty hard, but he still got out of there as fast as he could.

It's not like you can blend in when you have a Basenji and hope they never figure out who did it.

Here's how the dogs prefer to spend a winter day (snow or not outside). This was from a not-snow day recently, when we were off work between Christmas & New Years.

Kunjo is always on the stair first, and often he leaves in a huff when Obike joins him (even if Obike is two stairs away) but this time Kunjo was "willing" to allow Obike to join him on the stairs. To be fair to Kunjo, Obike usually starts by batting him in the head to try to oust him from Kunjo's prefered stair. Even if there are other sunny stairs available Obike just likes to pick on Kunjo and get-his-goat... They were doing a lot of that this morning in front of the fireplace and cracking me up.

Guy Noir once took the receiver off the hook when it rang at the Senior Residence. He was much admired for this.

So I'm watching TV and the phone starts to find on my nightstand, knowing it’s the nightly telemarketer, I ignore it. Gambit jumps over me, grabs it out of the stand and tosses it in my lap to get it to stop ringing. How to explain screening calls to the pup.

Stewart photo

Lol! My Data used to do that! He would swipe it off the base and then when the people starting saying "hello? Hello?" he would do his best impersonation of the RCA Victor Dog! ("His Master's Voice")

Oh. My. God. Zepar just flirted Brenna away from the coveted spot in front of the fire! This is a first!

I am spending the first day of 2012 assembling a NEW SOFA! Zepar says the box in which it came is the best gift he ever got.

Decided today that running Zuri {in agility} is like running a 3 yr old playing with light switch: brain on, brain off, brain on, brain on, brain off......

All my dogs know how to sit. Not necessarily on command..... Anybody who demeans Basenjis does not know Basenjis. Basenjis are too clever for some people who need to have the power to dominate.

Basenjis are not too different from Arabian horses. Use a harsh tone or a whip with an Arab and see how far you get! I've never seen a breed of dog that could make my heart dance the way ours do.

Karen P. Christensen

Laser is a hungry lad! He just rooo'd so loud he fell over!

If you can't get to the sunny spot in the bed first, lay on the one who did. This seems to be L'Ox's philosophy.

Note to Bakari.... when I get out of the shower I don't like finding the towel bar empty. I know you will try and lick the water off of my legs but I still need something for the rest of me, and I really just like drying off on my own!

Note from Komet..... Another forced march on a cold and dark morning. What is she thinking when there is a nice warm bed waiting?? Yes, she does give us warm broth over our food on cold mornings.... but I think she should be serving it in bed!

Newton still plays like a puppy... play bow central around here.  When I'm not playing "hide in the kitchen and make the dogs guess which door I will come out of", (super cool we have two doors to the kitchen so it's a crazy B500 circle track via living room to kitchen to den to living room, etc), he and Bella play the game on their own.  She rears up on her butt and clicky-paws at him.  He play bows and his little onion ring wags like crazy.  Then the crazy chase commences and they alternate hiding around the corner, etc.

I guess we know who owns this chair. Chair from 1982.  It rocks too, which is really funny. When he starts digging around, trying to get comfy, the chair just rocks like crazy while he tries to keep his balance.

Sailor Photo

M in the Dog Wrinters Association of America Winter 2012 newsletter, curtesy of the editor, Marion Lane.

Thank you Marion!

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