The Story of Crazy Bella

My next door neighbor has a Mexican Chihuahua named Bella. My wife and I call her Crazy Bella because like many dogs of this breed, her mouth writes checks her body can't cash. In other words, she is quite aggressive. As many of you know, on May 31 of this year my wife and I rescued a female Rottweiler, Duchess. I call her Dutch because it's easier.

Anyway, on Thanksgiving day, my son and I were in my back yard throwing a tennis ball around for the Dutchster to chase. All of a sudden, Crazy Bella crawls under the cedar fence, usig a hole she had dug. This has happened before Bella barks her head off trying to intimidate Dutch and Dutch just kind of looks at Bella as if to say, "Are you really a dog?" This time however, this 4 pound whack job proceded to attack the 70 poundish Dutch. My son and I immediately tried to seperate the two. As it turned out, no harm was done, but at the end, Dutch had this little dog completely in her jaws and off the ground. I thought Bella was truck music for sure, but Dutch did not bite down, thank God. I gave Dutch the "Out" command and Dutch put Bella down, whereupon, Bella beat feet back to her own yard. The crazy dog was still barking her head off though. She has some brass.

It is good that you have trained your dog. It could have been a mess.

Dan

Bella's guardian angel must have been on duty for sure Dan. Fortunately, Dutch is not an aggressive dog yet. She is still young. I'm told that at about two years of age, Rotties become more assertive. My goal is to have her very well trained and under control by then.

That could have got nasty... Glad one of the dogs is well behaved- and trained!

Yes, good training and dog Willie!

It's a good thing that most big dogs aren't as aggressive and high strung as many of the smaller breeds. Wolves are tamer than some of those little dogs.

yeah, hopefully you work that fence situation out with your neighbor before dutches gets sick of that barking 4 pound freak of nature excuse of a dog and tears her to pieces. =]

glad that didn't get as bad as it could have.

the ONLY reason I'm glad dutch didn't eat the chihuahua is because then the rat dog's owners would have thrown a fit, and demanded she be put down. I hate little dogs with the white hot passion of 1000 suns. and 95% of the time their owners are human garbage.

Hey Din, how ya doing? The lady who owns Crazy Bella is by herself. She doesn't really want a dog but her kids keep buying them for her. I guess she takes some comfort from having a companion who will alert her to the presence of an intruder. She has gone through quite a few dogs over the years. In the past, they've been largely neglected and just kept in the back yard. Bella, despite her delusions of grandeur is okay. Even though she barks a lot, the noise doesn't rattle our windows.

hrmmm. I guess that puts her in the 5%, but I'd still rather have a neighbor with a pack of basenjis. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
and I'm well, bill, thanks. how're you doing?

wait.. are basenjis the dogs that like never bark? dont they like whine or something?
or maybe they bark alot... idk i forget, I used to be so into dogs it wasn't even funny.

Very interesting story, Bill. I've always wanted a Chihuahua, but I've always found one reason or another why I'd probably be better off without one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

good story.

Short dogs usually have the Napoleon syndrome.

Basenjis are known for not barking. But, they do make some vocalizations. Some people refer to it as a yodel, but I don't know why. I have never heard anything that sounds like a yodel. Some people call it a roo sound. It does have a little more of a roo sound. Sort of like a Beagle's baying sound, but not nearly as loud and more pleasant sounding than a Beagle (IMO). My dogs never really get much louder than average human conversation noise levels.

I have two. My female rarely makes much noise of any kind. She is very quite.
My male will often greet us when we come home and sometimes he likes to greet visitors when they first arrive. That is about all the "roo" type noise our two Basenjis make.

Our two Basenjis will wrestle sometimes. They growl when they wrestle.

They do whine sometimes. But, not that often. Usually, when they want to chase something, but can't. They get a little wound up and frustrated. But, even then, they don't whine that much or routinely. I imagine it varies per Basenji. Mine might whine about once a week or so about something.

If you go to You Tube, there are a few Basenjis that sort of sing. A few that seem fairly noisy - much more vocal and even louder than I am used to hearing. I don't believe it is common to have Basenjis make noise for any extended periods. So, Basenjis vocalizing" for more than 20 - 60 seconds seems rare.














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yeah.
i knew there was something about like...how quiet they are.
they seem like good dogs, the breed began in like...what like brazil or something?
they're like pack dogs right?

Generally acknowledged to have come from Africa.

.... although, there is a small group who believe they may have come from China or something prior to that (?????) - I don't see the connection (????)

They are pretty much pack dogs and have a pretty strong hunting instinct.
They are known for bonding very well with their owners. Ours are noticably strongly bonded to us. But, Basenjis are known to be "aloof" with strangers.
I see this when out in public. We used to make it to dog parks a lot. A lot of people are always wanting to pet our dogs. But, our dogs don't tend to get that close to strangers. They might get close enough to satisfy their own curiosities, but not close enough to be petted. If they get close enough to be petted by strangers, they usually just walk off anyway.
But, if we have guests inside our house, our dogs are very different and can be very social. They will sometimes sit/lay next to guests if our guests are giving proper attention.
My dogs don't seem to care for "rowdy" kids. My wife and I don't have children. But, have neices, nephews and friends with kids that come over. They seem fine with "calm" kids and will socialize and let "calm" kids pet them. But, rowdy and loud kids make my dogs edgy.

Most dogs have a reasonably dominant sense for hunting - either sight or smell.

Basenjis are known to have pretty strong senses for both sight and smell.

As a result, when we go walking in the neighborhood, my dogs look like they are constantly getting sensory over-load. They run all over the place if I give them a lot of lead. My walks are more sane looking if I keep them on a short leash and in the middle of the street.

Walking them is ..... interesting. ... and a little challenging. I have had other breeds that were much easier to leash train. Ours are four now. They still can be a little challenging on a leash, but they are getting better.

If they see another dog, they want to go "greet".
If they see a cat, they want to chase.
If given enough leash, they have to run around and smell everything.

But, they love to walk and love to run. They "expect" an evening walk now and go through "antics" to get us to take them. They can be fairly humourous dogs.

They are "extremely" easy to potty train. They instinctively (as a breed apparently) don't like to use the rest-room in "their space. - .... Partly, why they expect walks in the evening so much. I don't think they even like to potty in our yard. They like to potty in "other" yards. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

They are usually about 22-25 pounds in weight. Just a little large for lap dogs, but they really like to sit with us in the evenings. So, are are very much lap dogs. My male (black) is actually sitting behind me in my desk chair. He does that a lot. Probably likes to stay warm.

But, they are also very out-doorsy and like to go for hikes and such.

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yeah africa thats it! you can see that they look like african wild dogs..kind of.
they sound like good dogs.
=]

Glad everything worked out Willie. Dog fights can be tough to break up.