My wife and adopted a 7 year old guy from BRAT this past December and he does the same thing. He's a retired puppy mill stud that never learned how to climb stairs until he was "freed." If he gets a running start, he can leap a step or two, but if he walks up to steps, he goes up backwards, just like in the video. He also has a phobia with certain door thresholds. But don't worry. He's a super fun little guy who just has a few little quirks. He can outrun his 12 year old B-sister in the yard, but she always beats him up the stairs.
Crazy, unusual funny stuff our basenjis do. A topic that will keep us all in stitches even as we may weep over all the other behaviors. Remind our selves why we love these kids soooo much
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and wind up in a corner of the couch, standing for the longest time, on her head.
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I meant to say after a round of basenji 500, our first girl Ch. taarakians cairo jubilee, would slam into the corner of the couch and just stand on her head for the longest time.
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@joan-duszka They do love their headstands, don't they!
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My girl Lady used to do the B500, ending on our bed looking into a mirror adjacent to it. She would stare at her image with a very fierce look on her face, then launch herself off to another lap of the race. Rinse, repeat. We used to laugh until we cried.
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Cara does crazed spins on the bed. She sounds possessed.