LMMFAO.. between Huskies & Chihuahuas, things will never be heard again, like important breaking news: "there appears YIP! to be an alien YIP! hovering over OHHRHORRHOR Bob's house" huh?!? Sorry, I can't hear anything! I should get my hearing checked! [or reconsider adopting a husky and a chichi at the same time - duh, Bob]
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto For sure they do. Our basenji we rescued so we actually didn't even hear of that breed until that day and the noises she made scared us at first bc we never imagined that kind of sound coming out of any canine 🤣 (Also note that she is also mixed with chow chow so she also does have a bark but rarely uses it unless a stranger comes to the door... otherwise, it's a yodel 😅)
@@johanfriberg4705 we had a corgi and then adopted a mutt who was mostly basenji. She learned some odd sounds, and every member of the family had a unique set of sounds. When my sister got engaged we knew her fiancé was accepted when the dog’s sound for her changed
@@shelleyharris4176 yes. My family had a corgi, then my sister adopted a dog that was mostly basenji. Because my sister was in college, my parents kept the basenji and she also became a family dog. The corgi was an adult at that point, the basenji was a puppy. So, she learned all kinds of things, but because of her physiology could not do them quite the same way. In addition to the odd noises when she tried to bark, because she was learning from a male dog she did the natural squat to pee but also hiked her leg because that is what he did. It was funny as heck watching her learn stuff!
Hey to be fair...he is god - Why should I do it? - Who am I? -God. - Who is... - The source of all knowledge and truth in the universe... -Therefore... - Ekhm...cause...you said so? - See...it was not so hard right? - (silently) I start to get Lucifer - What? - I said I need to get Lucy for that.
I had a basenji when I was a kid! She was older, and just the sweetest thing. Definitely did all of the above, plus her legendary zoomies around the living room. People would think it was crazy she couldn't bark! The neighborhood kids loved her. I miss her
My parents raised and showed basinjis before I was born. They kept 2 of them and gave one to my grandfather. They were funny creatures. Sirius, the male would sit at the apex of my baby swing and lick my feet as I swung forward. He'd have the zoomies so wild and fast that he took corners on the wall. Heidi, the female, was more chill but she had wild zoomies too. Both were tough little dogs but HATED the cold, except the 1st good snow of the year which was honored by wild zoomies around the backyard for like 5 minutes. Then they were done with the cold for the year.
@@bieuxyongson, a Basenji looks at a chain-link fence, "this is a VERY wide ladder!" Had one, I did. Great dog that acted like a large dog, and weighed less than 20 pounds. steve
And destroy a high end motorcycle helmet in under 15 mins. These little charmers give the Belgium Malinois a run for their money in tear things up department. Climbing trees and fences to escape are their forte.
Can confirm after having a Basenji-mix as my first childhood pet. Basenjis run cat software on a dog system. They love to jump and climb, they will patrol endlessly to make sure your home is safe, and boy are they SMART. Our dog Lindy picked up on both English and Spanish phrases we'd use and I swear with no hyperbole she could understand about 100 phrases. Bilingual dog! She learned every trick we ever taught her, she was great at getting rid of vermin, and she only ever managed to learn a soft "Bruff!" in place of an actual bark after intently listening to and imitating our second dog, a Flatcoated Retriever, which ironically is a breed known for their "talking." Amazingly enough, my parents never PLANNED to get a Basenji. They thought she was a Chow-mix at first until we started realizing she acted nothing like a Chow. But it all turned out for the best. She was a fierce guard dog but utterly sweet towards me and my sisters. She lived to the ripe old age of 17 and would have been willing to hang on longer (cause boy are Basenjis STUBBORN as well!) but we knew it was time and sent her on over the Rainbow Bridge.
My Basenji knows exactly what "Che Che, That's not your house!" means because as soon as I say it, she'll immediately move away from whatever she was sniffing or whoever's apartment she'd wandered in front of (back in the day, she'd wander IN, too 😅! Thankfully she never got very far and the few times she did it, the neighbor who's house she started to wander into found her to be delightful and not freak-out worthy). Now all I have to do is say that phase if she wanders a little and she'll immediately move to stand in front of OUR apartment door. It's crazy how much you get the feeling they understand what you just said. Cat software on a dog system, indeed! 🤣🤣
My sister and BIL have a shepherd Basenji mix. Dog is almost completely silent, but when he decides something is bark-worthy, everyone knows. Everyone. It’s like six months of stored shepherd barking comes out in this one huge mega “WOOOOOF.”
"I hate this job..", best line in this video. And that's how I feel 2 go 3 hours after my shifts starts at the pharmacy. I'm a pharmacy technician, yay me!! Lol
My basenji is from West Africa and she loves warm weather and has no problem hanging out in the summer heat for most of the day (I keep water for both of us handy, of course). Basenji's are not just good with desert weather, they also are great with high humidity heat, too! My pup is from the jungles. The heat is never too much for her! But if it dips below 50F, she has to wear a jacket.
Their little curled tails are the cutest! Mine has a little white dipstick tail, so she's got her little curled tail with a little white tip at the end!
@khaleesireyna731 Yes!! My girl is a red and white and I love calling her my little cinnamon roll or my cinnabun because the brown curly tail with the white tip looks like one 🤭
I have to socialize and take them to obedience classes. And when leaving the house, you have to crate them. My mother’s friend’s first basenji wasn’t trained and socialized. As he got older, he got more possessive of his care taker.
Should have included the fact that basenjis cry real tears. My basenji/beagle mix would cry every time I scolded him for escaping the yard. The tears flowed. 😢. Only heard him "bark" (his beagle 1/2?) on one occasion. When he treed a cat. Counted 23 barks.
My basenji has done her little "baarrrrraarrr" type yoddle a handful of times and it has confused tf out of everyone who hears it for the first time, but I'm used to it and so I'm just always explaining "oh, yeah, that's her yoddle... she does that".
I swear they don't bark because they don't have to. Their faces are so expressive with those brows and they're so smart that you can just look at them and know what they're trying to tell you. 🤣
Omg hilarious 😂 please do dachshunds pitched to God next! Edit: I'll tell you about my dachshunds, I've had them for about 15yrs. Right now I have 2 males Frankie & Limo (everyone laughs but I couldn't resist naming my extra long doggy Limo, as in the extra long car a limousine) They think they're much bigger than they are, very brave they'll take on anyone/anything to protect themselves & you. They're curious (1 of mine once decided it'd be fun to swallow a sewing needle! The vet had to carefully go thru his intestines looking for it!) Love digging! When I take my boys for a walk i have to remember my phone bc I will spend time just standing around while they dig tunnels hunting mice, gophers and rabbits. When they want attention and aren't getting it they'll poke you with their nose, we call it the nose jab:) Ofc they are unique in the way they're 3 times longer than they are tall with short little legs & round feet that make perfect little shovels, they were bred for digging tunnels to hunt badgers. when they're young they're very energetic but as they get older they can get lazy and fat, they live to eat instead of eating to live lol When it's your dachshund they are sweet loyal & protective but they can definitely be unfriendly to strangers especially if that stranger has a dog with them! I laughed so much at the "dachshund" cursing out the robber in your other video! They definitely don't appreciate a stranger just walking in to their territory & are very vocal about it!
I have a dachshund/pitbull (Bullwiener). Marvin will be 2 at the end of september. You are so right about the snout-punch, as it's called here, and living to eat. I really enjoyed the cussing dachshund also!
@@TH-kd1ju He looks like a dachshund on steroids, or a pitbull with dwarfism. About once each week, a stranger will see him and ask to take his picture. He's about a foot tall, two feet long and 32lbs of concentrated cuteness.
I adopted a rescue puppy that the lady told me was a Chihuahua/Pug mix. I already have a Chihuahua that is the best. He was very cute and affectionate. After the papers were approved and I’d given her a check, she mentions, “oh, he might have a bit of Dachshund.” Holy crap, he’s MOSTLY Dachshund, I think, because he 100% acts like one. The pug smushed face mixed with the long dachshund snout came out medium length, and the tail looks more like a Chihuahua, but still curls over the back; one ear stands up and the other flops over. He’s always wanting to play-fight my other dogs, and he HATES other dogs and most other people. His mission in life is “destroy”.
I was so excited to find this one because I have a Basenji, but we don't see any other Basenjis in the area we live in, so a lot of people mistake her for a fox terrier/jack Russell terrier/chihuahua/dingo (we've had someone ask if she's a dingo more than once 😂). My girl got some recognition!!!
I wonder what basenjis think when everyone else is yapping away around them & they sound so different... Do they notice? Do they try and imitate the others? 😂
A more accurate way of saying it is that they are not capable of sustained barking due to the shape of their larynx's. They definitely can get out a bark if they get excited enough. Our Zulu did one recently and we got it on video, at least the sound of it as she was off camera at the time, but it surprised all of us including her. 😂
BAHAHA! 😂😂😂 Sent a link of this one to friends of mine with Basenjis - once they finally stopped laughing, they said it allllll makes perfect sense now 😂🤣
My dog is a basenji mix- she is very much like one. She yodels, (kinda) she grooms herself like a cat, has the same coloration and it very agile with thin, long legs. I think she’s also a chesapeake bay retriever, because she has webbed paw and does that little smiling thing by barring her teeth when she’s happy. I also think she’s part greyhound, she has the same looking ears and and tail. thank for reading my comment!
Does she also have a little furrowed brow? Furrowed brows are a pretty telltale mark of a Basenji from what the vet in Africa told me (my dog is originally from there, so we had a few trips to the capitol city for vet care).
LOL our basenji was half chocolate lab. So she scared herself half to death the first time she barked (no yodeling), and even though she had webbed feet like the lab, she hated getting in the water. And she had the big basenji ears. She was the best!
I've never seen a lab/basenji mix!!! That's amazing! As far as I can tell, mines a full Basenji (she's also from Africa, originally, so it's pretty likely she's either mostly or all Basenji). She absolutely hates water unless it's to drink. Won't go swimming, screeched at me when I put my feet in the water at the beach (would have absolutely NOTHING to do with that ocean stuff), and looks at me like "this is the worst day of my life, why are you doing this???" when she gets a bath (the groomers always say she's VERY good for them, tho 🤨). Basenjis really are just cat software being run on dog hardware and the combination is truly something else. 😂
We had Basenjis growing up. My mom saw an old movie and fell in love. Yep, they don’t bark and they yodel when they are happy. They use them packs to hunt lions in Africa. They are small but fierce. Ours used to kill snakes very efficiently. They also climb fences. If they can get their paws into it they can get out. Sweet dogs though. Very loyal. I love their sweet wrinkly faces.
My basenji is from West Africa. One of my neighbors had 3 of them for hunting. She's always been a sweetheart, tho and in my town back in Africa, she loved playing with the kids near my house (they loved it, too! It was kinda like a novelty because over there, kids are more leery of dogs and petting dogs isn't really the norm). She's absolutely a little escape artist. Back in Africa, she'd slip through and get into just about anything. Here, she's wiley and good at finding little hiding spots when she wants a break from the other dog (she comes out when she's ready to play again) and she wiggles out of clothes when I put them on her and she no longer feels like wearing them.
But humans bred designer dogs. They aren't natural...god didn't create sausage dogs, humans bred them. Soooo it's not funny. God literally had no hand in it. Don't you get the difference? The entire premise is bad. the joke doesn't work... Same way God and angels didnt create pharmaceutical medicines. It's as ridiculous as that. unless you're incredibly ignorant to not understand that humans bred most dog breeds (like daschunds)... It's like thinking aspirin grows on trees. It's just .. a silly joke. A cringe attempt at humour.
Our neighbors had one. Before we knew that, I heard this strange sound coming from next door behind the fence. And for some weird reason I thought that sounds like a basenji. They really do yodel. Wild! On a different note, I heard down the block once this bang sound and it was a bloodhound. They don't sound like any of the other hounds. Yet another wild moment!
We had one of these as a kid. It was back in the late 70s. NO ONE had ever heard of this dog and thought we were lying to them. Our large animal vet had one dumped at his door. He loaded him up and he came with Doc Warren out to the farm to deal with the calves and our 2 pregnant mares. Anyway he was great dog. Doc couldn't keep him and no idea who the owners were. He didnt even really know what he was until he heard the 'yodel ' i guess he talked with other vet buddies or something and they explained about him. Well he need a foster family until he could find a good home for him. The yodel was tough to deal with in town and he was a 'i need to run 12 hours a day' dog. So mom and dad fostered him for about 6 months...did i mention he was a 3 legged dog. Obviously named Tray. Well thats what the vet called him they ole tray dog. Mom raised white German Shepherds so we had and knew how to deal with dogs. Thats why he felt safe letting us foster an unknown dog, since he didnt know how he was was pets and kids. We made sure he was good with the larger animals, as well as poultry and cats. I think he went to an old 'retired' farmer, they don't actually retire. They just ride around in the pick up and tell they guys they are doing it wrong. He was his truck dog. Went out with him to the fields and ran around while the old man talked. Then loaded back in the front seat and off they went. He was missing his left back leg. Never let it slow him down.
Many years ago I rescued a pitiful puppy. Even the rescue tried to get me to pick out something else. Well much love and money my new Vet told me it was a Basenji. Great baby that we had for many a year. He was so smart and he and my Jack Russell were so smart it was scary lol.
Brought back fond memories of our basenji Benny.😂 He once slept so close to the heater, he singed his hair. He would also lay on the BBQ plate, hot enough to fry an egg on. 😂Go figure.
Obviously not because humans bred those dogs ... God had no hand in it. It's like thinking god made pharmaceutical medicines. 🙄. Humans bred 90 percent of dog breeds, for hunting or fighting or just being cute. .. but it's not natural. God /nature didn't do it, right , Soooo the premise of the joke is just not funny to begin with 🤷♀️😑. Why even bring god into it? Take it up with the humans who bred these unusual breeds of domestic animals, dude... The jokes sort of on him for not even knowing this...🤣. The cringe is strong. Any other NATURAL animal I get it but why focus of dogs that were actually artificial creations by breeding. Heck, These breeds didn't even exist until the last 120 years, for goodness sake.
I own a Basenji and they are just cute as hell (only when they are tired) they are sometimes being a pain in the ass but overall they are pretty good dogs, Im glad I don't have to deal with barking, they are good with babies, (sometimes) like mine just licks a babies face whenever he see's one, rare breed too, they are honestly ❤lovely dogs❤
"...and let's make a Japanese dog that also doesn't bark & cleans itself like a cat. Actually, make that one just be a cat in a dog suit...but make it look like a fox." "What?!"
