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Basenji information worth knowing

                 

 

 

 

 

PYGMIES

The homeland of the pygmies and the Basenjis is threatened. The rainforest is being drastically reduced with consequences for various species and the global climate.    wwf.de/regionen/kongo-becken/stiftung

 

 

Basenjis Schensi dogs are hunting helpers at the Efe and the BaAka. The pygmies trained basenjis as hunting dogs for their settled neighbors the Bantus and got food especially bananas therefore.

 

 

 

 

Pygmies           Net Hunting with Success in the Ituri Rainforest

Photos Armin Heymer Die Pygmäen Vlg. List

 

 

 

1987 Net Hunting with Basenji in the Rainforest  

 Photo Michael Work

 

 

 

After a successful hunt, the Basenjis storm ahead with clanging bells into the camp and so announce the success of the enterprise. If the hunt was without results, the bells are silenced by stuffing them with grass.

 

 

 

Basenji with a  bell  

Photo William F Wheeler 1990

 

 

 

The  Basenjis  were used as hunting dogs in their natural homeland, independent to do their duty. Without their assistance the spear hunting for Elephants and other large wild animals would be impossible. In the rain forest with all its dangers they have to be able to independently take care of their food and survival.

 

 

 

The mysterious forest elephant ( dwarf elephant ) in the rainforest of Africa

 

Photos: WWF-Canon/Rick Weyerhaeuser

 

 

 

The wild life habitat Ituri Rainforest is threatened. You can help

wwf.org/     carpe.umd.edu/     ran.org/info_center/

 

 

The breeding dog Basenji worldwide today.

Basenjis have all instincts  very well compatible for their natural  homeland  in freedom. But they are not very well conformist to high tech civilization. Cars, streetcars and train are no danger in their mind. He still can provide his own food and find anything edible; look out for poison and spoiled food.  Therefore it's so important to feed them appropriate  natural food to the species. Basenjis learn very quickly to do what we want, but then often do  as they like. Take it easy and don’t worry. Start very early by  training   your Basenji and be consequent. In his natural surrounding the basenji is not accustomed  to stay alone  because he live beneath the people   Give the Basenji a chance to learn to cope with modern civilization. These intelligent dog need mental training and a lot of  exercise  You should like to learn the  basenji language , that makes the life with Basenjis easy going.

 

The world-famous Basenji expert Miss Veronica Tudor-Williams wrote an article (Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, Nr.54) on the Basenjis of Central Africa and called them a "living fossils". She wrote: "It would be a tragedy if these canines of such ancient lineage, having maintained their identity over numerous centuries, would now be lost to us forever as a consequence of expanding civilization".

 

I want to add, it is my concern that the Basenjis be not bred with purely optical fashionable or commercial goals in mind. It is our opinion that the BASENJI is perfect since thousand of years.

 

 

 

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