Training Conversation
Enduring quote: Lotte Hotaling, "I don't know about Basenjis being difficult to train, but it is not at all difficult for them to train their humans."

Renee Meriaux - This is how you herd with a basenji. (Click on the photo to see the video).

No one was hurt in the making of this video, neither sheep, dog, or human.
I accidentally bopped her with the swim noodle, but other wise a good time was had by all.
Just tried to keep her off the sheep and work on a little stay.

LGRA & NOTRA Nationals, Fort Mott, NJ, 17 & 18 October 2015

photos by Natalie Culver

A few pics from LGRA/NOTRA nationals.

Hannah having fun! & checking out the Hatch Award (such a sweet handsome dog) & remembering our dear late Apu racers (Laser, M, Trill & Hatch) with the "spirit race", sentimental addition to remember all... & hard to make out, but 4 B's rounding the curve, NOTRA hight point.

I'm proud of Hannah for staying good natured with long days on the field & proud of 10-yr-old Obike tied for 3rd place!!

And amazed I only forgot Hannah in stroller at the finish line once. Got back to my car with Obike after a race & thought, I'm missing something here! To be fair she was napping & finish line judges make fine baby-sitters

High Point race, 1st Program.

Hannah's first Nationals.

Spirit Banner.

The Hatch Award.

Congratulations to Karen Christensen's home-bred lad, the handsome Rip!

Photos of the Nationals by Marc Stumbo

NW3! - Professsor!

by Liza Lundell

HE DID IT!!!!!!!!

NW3 X 3 = ELITE!!!!!!!! And THIRD PLACE OVERALL!!!!

Professor finished his NW3 Elite title today at Martinsville, NJ. Karin Damon ran a beautiful trial, as usual. The weather was perfect--sunny, some nice fluffy white clouds, a cooling breeze. The site was beautiful, with some wonderful search areas.

Seven people titled today, and there were two Elites. AND PROFESSOR WAS ONE OF THEM!!!!!!

It's possible I'm just a wee bit excited!

It was a beautiful day for a nosework trial--sunny, not too hot, nice breeze, blue sky, lovely site.

Our first element was interiors, in the performing/fine arts building. First room was a conference room, with a long table in the center and assorted
chairs against the walls and at the table. At the debriefing, the CO said it was like an interior search with a vehicle in the center of the room! Pro found a hide on the table, at the far left-hand end, then ran down and found a hide in the radiator on the far right side of the room. I asked him to go back and detail the chairs along the wall, and he ran back to the hide on the table, so I called finished. Second room was the ladies' bathroom. The stalls were locked and out of play. One hide, on the trashcan right inside the door. He explored a little, then was ready to leave, so finished. Third room was the men's room, so just like the ladies, but with urinals. The trash can was under the sink, and he alerted on it (almost had it over!) then left the room. So, finished, called him back (good boy, Professor!) and we were done.

Next was exteriors. A long porch on a cabin, and a roughly circular patch of grass with a picnic table in it. He found a hide on the second pillar from the end of the porch, then on the second pillar from the other end of the porch. Because of the set-up, he really had to work back and forth from the
cabin wall to the pillars. I took him around the grass area, and he jumped on the table, but fortunately didn't stop to pose this time. Finish.

From exteriors we went to containers. Three lines, the center line of luggage, the lines on the right and left consist of a thermos and two ORT
boxes. He was interested in the first bag in the center line, but didn't alert on it. We went down the line of luggage, and he alerted on the last bag.
Down the line on the right, and he alerted on the thermos. Across, some interest in the bag in the middle, then a definite alert on the other thermos. That's three, that's a finish!

Last element of the day was vehicles. Three cars/SUVs parallel to each other, with a white SUV perpendicular to them. Found a hide on the white
SUV, worked the line of cars, found a hide on the end car, worked back toward the beginning. He was very interested in the first car in line, a red
chevy, but never truly alerted and left it to sniff the building. Went back, still interested, but no alert. So, finished. And off we went, wondering
if there were two hides or three in vehicles. Two, we've got an elite; three, we're toast.

Well there were two hides in vehicles, so Pro is now NW3 Elite.
And with a third place overall, to boot. I could not possibly be more proud of this boy.

The Basenji Club of Southeastern Wisconsin was host to (3) Coursing Ability Tests on 17/18 October

by Lisa Marshall

The primary motive was as a club fundraiser, but I would say that the most wonderful benefit turned out to be that coursing isn't just for sighthounds anymore . We met so many awesome dog and handler teams who were delighted to be out having fun with their dogs.

We had 44 dogs at CAT 1 Saturday morning; 43 dogs at CAT 2 Saturday afternoon; and 40 dogs at CAT 3 on Sunday morning. The tests were held on the wonderful grounds of the Greater Racine Wisconsin Kennel Club (my all breed club). We had the kind of weather that Wisconsin is famous for in the fall - sunny and cool! Our judges were Karla Schreiber on Saturday and Don Goodrich on Sunday. Our lure operator was Lauri Stromberg who also runs Lure Coursing Fanatics on her property, offering fun coursing for all breeds.

We had a huge range of sizes running including a Great Dane, a Treeing Walker Coonhound, Dobermans, Rottweilers, Vizslas, and Golden Retrievers, all the way down to a Papillon, Boston Terriers, Dachshunds, and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels on the other end of the size range. We even had a 4 point white tail deer buck dash across the field during the festivities. He did not stick around to get his Q ribbon.

Lunch on Saturday was a baked potato bar with a table full of toppings and seasonal salads and desserts. Sunday morning we took the chill off with slow cooker spiced oatmeal.

BCOSW is looking forward to repeating these events in 2016.

Permission received from Sally's owner, Deb Chvilicek, and the photographer, Mary C Huff of Tails In Design,
to use this photo of Sally, the Boston Terrier in full stride at the BCOSW CAT event this past weekend (Oct. 17-18).

Thanks to Brenna Fender for putting this video of Fiddle & I on the Clean Run facebook page.

She wrote: Haven't seen a Basenji tear up an agility course before? Well, click on this!
Susan Kamen Marsicano's Fiddle is a three-year-old Basenji that earned
her first Excellent Standard Q recently with this great run. Her mom
also qualified on this same course. Basenji power!

Click the photo to see the video - Fiddle's 50 second Excellent Standard run at American K9 Country, with judge Mary Mullen.

Training Conversation Enduring quote: Lotte Hotaling, "I don't know about Basenjis being difficult to train, but it is not at all difficult for them to train their humans."

Training Conversation
Enduring quote: Lotte Hotaling, "I don't know about Basenjis being difficult to train, but it is not at all difficult for them to train their humans."