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The most distinctive feature of the alert, finely built Basenji becomes apparent only when it is disturbed - instead of barking like other dogs,
it has unique yodeling and chortling calls.

The Basenji was developed as a hunting dog in the Congo and it may be related to similar dogs portrayed on ancient Egyptian artifacts.

Green vegetables are favored by these dogs and should form part of their regular diet.

Final scores:

FloppsyLadySally89 - A(29) I(27) M(5)= 117
Randi - E(42) L(15)= 99
delidog - O(22) S(20) F(8) N(24)= 96
CookieBaker - T(31) = 31
Jessica12345 - U(8) = 16
Miss Meow - H(12) R(20) = 32
Koxka - W(2) = 2