My personal experience with basenjis: A customer of mine had a pair, and I boarded them in my kennel. They were not destructive or messy. They were, however, rather aloof. They did not seem to seek any attention or affection for anyone but their owner, and not a whole lot from him, either. Some people like that personality in a dog, while it would be upsetting to other people. He also reported that they were not particularly good with other dogs, except each other.

He did breed the dogs and had a litter of the most adorable puppies! They were SO cute. I was SERIOUSLY tempted to take one, but at the time I was very involved in rescue and simply had far too many rescue dogs in and out of my house to take on another permanent resident, let alone a puppy.

I have a Jindo, and the basenjis' personality reminded me of his. He just ignores everyone but a select few people ... me, my dad, sometimes my husband, occaisonally my son.

Here is a site with some more information on them. http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/basenji.htm