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lack one, and a red brother, Kopagi. Tahzu went on to become the to four boys and we did not consider that Zambia was the right
first black basenji dog champion in the Southern Hemisphere. He place for us any longer. I mated Beauty to Taysenji Tigee, a black
obtained his championship on August 4th, 1963.
son of Tahzu and Titema, and sent Tahzu, Beauty, and Titema
Miss Miller, who is attached to the Lutheran Mission in back to England and their stint in quarantine. Beauty’s pups were
Liberia, has been interested in the little native dog for many years allowed to leave the kennels at ten weeks old. That was the litter
and had been breeding them for some time. Though the dogs were that produced Samogi and Miss Campbell’s Tuyey. The two blacks
not registered with any kennel club she did keep pedigrees. She in the litter went to Gwen Stanich in the States.
kept basenjis because she loved them.
The rest of the story involves a ship in the Highlands, the boys
About a year after Tahzu’s arrival we had his father, Fisibu, growing up, my husband’s death, the dogs and dog shows, and lots
flown down to us. Tahzu had impressed us so much with all his
good qualities, temperament, coat, length of leg and his wonderful
of fun, as always, with basenjis.
independent nature that we had thoughts of breeding Fisibu to one
of our bitches. But, as things turned out, that was not to be. Fisibu
was a small, stocky little red dog with a beautiful coat and nature.
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He accepted the change in his environment without a qualm and
his yodel was a joy to hear. But while he was with me in Kitwe he
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night after we had all gone to bed and the lamps were out, Fisibu
dashed out from his sleeping place under my bed and there was
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the sound of a terrible dog fight. Grabbing a torch we found Fisibu
and the Doberman from the next farm in the middle of a ding dong
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fight, with Fisibu getting by far the worst of it. The basenji tore
himself out of a throat hold and fled inside with blood pouring
from him. I dashed after him. In pitch darkness I tied the first piece
of material I could find round his throat, picked up his limp body
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and then we drove like mad over bush roads for ten miles to find
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the one and only veterinarian surgeon, woke him up, and held a
very shaky lamp whilst he examined the dog. He found that the
jugular vein had been completely severed, but that somehow when
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the vein that was nearest the heart, thus stopping the blood from
pumping out. It was more than a million-to-one chance.
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After that, as soon as Fisibu was fit to travel we sent him home.
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We felt we might be taking a chance keeping him any longer. As it
happened he did die about a year later—in a dog fight!
During 1963 I had a lot of correspondence with Mrs. Stanich
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Andersley Atlantic’s daughters. One, Coptokin Copper Beautique,
to stay with me, the other to go to Bert Blewett of South Africa.
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Beauty became my pride and joy. I was always distressed that
we left Africa before I could make her up. She actually won enough
C.C.s but two of them were while she was still under nine months
old and therefore could not be counted. She died about three years
ago but most of my present basenjis are descended from her and
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I can remember many pleasant times with the basenji pack,
sometimes we had nine or ten running in and out of the house.
When we went riding the Africans had to ask us to keep the dogs
at home because they used to round up the goat herds. There was
the day the dogs encircled a small crocodile and our bullmastiff
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had to jump over the circle to see what was going on. You never
heard such a fuss and commotion. Fortunately it was a very small
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elephant grass is something to be remembered for a very long time.
They appear to hover in mid-air, looking both ways before they
disappear again. No wonder the Africans call them the “jumping
up and down dogs.”
In 1965 we thought it better that we bring the children back to
England to complete their education. The family had now grown
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