First, foremost and only she is a food hound!!
I kept coming home and finding my fridge open. I thought there
was something wrong with the seal. So I had it replaced. Then I
come home, the fridge door open, but now food is missing! So I
sit back,.. and watch,.. and wait. Gizelle has learned by
watching me how to open the fridge. And not by pulling on the
tea towel. She actually uses her paw like a hand and works her
nails between the fridge and door, pulls, and opens it! As you
can see by the pictures I had to put a LOCK on the fridge door
to prevent her from 'helping herself'!!
Show Clothes: Here is topic that many basenji owner's have
known. But Gizelle puts a whole new twist on the matter. When I
come home from a dog show, that I had food in my pocket, I MUST
make sure I put my clothes away. Not just in the hamper, as she
will pull them out and eat the pockets that I had bait in. BUT
she will get it from behind closed doors!! After a show, knowing
Gizelle as I do, I hung my clothes in the ' dry cleaning'
section of my closet. Figure I'd save some pockets. But alas
NO. I left the closet door open an inch, and she implemented her
'fridge antics' and pulled open the closet door, yanked the
clothes off the hanger and devoured the inside and outside of
the pants pocket. Then went to work on the suit jacket pockets!!
Gizelle also has a taste for buttons. Susan Coe, who finished Gizelle's
American Championship, was amazed that while cuddling Gizelle,
ringside in her lap, she would flip over and nibble on Susan's
shirt buttons, till they were undone!
Now that Gizelle is 5 years old, you would figure she would
settle down. Not MY Gizelle!! She has another talent. She
'dances' for her supper! She will stand on her back legs waving
and batting her front paws, while spinning 'dancing' at you till
she gets her dinner!
When I attend shows in the RV. I tend (ed) to leave dinner to
de-frost in the sink, like any normal person would. BUT I do not
live with a normal dog!! Many nights, I have come home to meat
wrappers on the floor! Alias, soup again.... God help me if she
ever learns how to open a can..........I will
starve.....................
I can't wait till next month to see what she comes up with
next....................
