Today the puppies had some visitors, it was friends and other basenjibreeders that came to admire them   

It was really nice to meet them all, most of the times we meet each other on dogshows, but now we could sit down and talk and eat with out the pressure of the show. But of course we had to take some photos of them stacked and also some headshots. But what happened, well............... the ones that always has their camera with them had forgotten it at home and the battery in my camera had died  . Lucky for us Monica had her camera whith her  

This time we used chicken and whiped cream as a treat. Here you can see the results.

Night Play, my keeper

Night Play

No Mercy or Patra as she's going to bee called when she moves to Denmark.

No Mercy

Dream Hunter

Dream Hunter

Dream Chaser

Dream Chaser

Dream Chaser or Lilleman as I call him has escaped from the puppypen and found paradise! I found him in the big dogs playbox with all the stuffed toys. He found a big stuffed bunny, he got it in the puupypen now.

I have to say that I'm really happy that I got Kassi that can help Ive with the pups and play with them. Kassi has always loved puppies and also to play, she's my crazy girl. She also has a lot of patience with the little ones when the bite her.

Today it's a wonderful day, I'm off from work and the sun shining in full swing. The temperature this morning was minus one degree Celsius. I received an sms from my friend Michelle, and she wondered if we should take a walk. Of course I said yes. We have a perfect place to go with open fields where the dogs can run free and of leash. Our dogs are the best of friends and they have grown up together. Of course I had my camera with me so enjoy the photos.

Kassi is enjoying the taste of frozen mud   

Ive and Kassi with Ulla

On this photo you can see the difference of the fiealds, the on in the sun dosen't have any frost on it and the one in the shadow is covered in frost.

Ive's belly at almost 6 weeks.

Today was the day that Ive was going to get her ultrasound done at the vet. I have been almost sure that she is pregnant but since I have to plan my schedule for work and plan my vaccationtime for the delivery of the puppies I thought it would be best to check.

So at 8.30 am I was at the vet for the ultrasound, my mother and Kassi was also with me and Kassi yoddle a lot at the vet. She's a bit nuts sometimes   but I still love her. I can just say this if Ive's belly would have been empty I would have been very surprised, but it was not empty. The vet said that she could see 3 puppies for sure, but said that it might be 4. She could also se an empty fetal bladder.

Now I just have to wait to see how many puppies will be born in december.

Ive thinks that the big blue IKEA bag would be the perfect place to have the pups in

I've had my blog for about a year and a half now, during this time I have always been writing in Swedish. Now I have decided that some of the posts will be written in English. Why you might wonder. Well, Ive is hopefully pregnant and as I have some friends who do not speak Swedish, I thought it might be fun or them to read about this as well.

On October 10th Ive was mated with Pajaz and she hopefully will have a litter of puppies on December 12th.

I will know for sure if she's pregnant on November 11th when I take her to the vet for an ultrasound.

Keep your fingers crossed!

Basenji världen har fått helt underbara nyheter. Även om vår ras i det stora hela är en väldigt frisk ras så finns det naturligtvis sjukdomar som vi arbetar med, precis som på alla andra raser. Den sjukdom som jag personligen tycker är den värsta på vår ras, Basenji, är Fanconis Syndrome. En njursjukdom där njurarna inte tar upp alla näringsämnen. Detta är en sjukdom med dödlig utgång. Vi har under en tid kunnat testa våra hundar med ett markör-test, detta har gjort att vi har kunnat fått reda på om våra hundar har varit fri, anlagsbärare eller sjuka i sjukdomen. Men ett markör test är inget hundra procentigt test vilket har gjort att de provresultat vi fått tillbaka har sagt troligen fri eller troligen bärare. Har en hund varit sjuk i Fanconi så är den så där finns inget troligen. Nu har man äntligen hittat den mutation som gör denna sjukdom och vi har nu ett gentest. Detta gör att om resultatet säger fri så är hunden fri! Helt underbart!

"The BCOA and the BHE are pleased to announce Dr. Gary Johnson has identified the mutation responsible for recessive basenji Fanconi Syndrome. A new test, a direct Fanconi gene test is now available through the OFA. The OFA is working on a process to order the test on previously stored DNA. However a dog’s owner should go ahead and order the test now thr...ough the OFA website. Dogs that have not been tested before will need to have a cheek swab kit ordered via the OFA, returned, and the direct gene test will be run.

Results will be sent to the owner, and displayed on the OFA website. To be able to differentiate the new direct test results from the Linked Marker test results, the new direct test will be resulted as Clear, Carrier or Affected. The term “probably” will no longer appear on the certificate and there will no longer be an Indeterminate category.

We should all congratulate Dr. Johnson for his work locating the gene and the genetic alteration responsible for recessive Basenji Fanconi syndrome. There is still work to be done to further characterize the mechanisms that cause the disease to manifest, and whether there are things we as Basenji owners and breeders can do to ameliorate the onset and severity of the disease. We hope everyone will want to support Dr. Johnson as he continues this important work to the benefit of our breed."