Adoption information
About Lotte
Hi my name is Lotte. I am a desexed female Basenji, 3.5 years old.
Preferable we would like to find a family for Lotte who can take her for walks and spend time with her. Lotte is affectionate, playful, enjoys human company, and is well trained. However, Lotte does suffer from separation anxiety which means she will need to have company. Ideally we would like to find a family who has a calm Basenji boy and who would be prepared to intergrate Lotte into their family. So this would require patience, time, love, and to let Lotte adjust to her new life at her own speed.
Her new family would need to have solid experience with Basenjis and be prepared to work with BBNA through the settling in period.
Other than her anxiety, Lotte is a top Basenji. We have provided a brief Basenji profile in the photos, just enlarge the view for reading by increasing the size on your browser.
Once a home is approved BBNA in conjunction with a new owner will ship to any Australian state. All our Basenjis come with up to date vaccinations, desexed, and health checked.
Contact Ethel on: ethel.blair@gmail.com / 0402 580 898.
Medical notes
There may also be a requirement for her new owners to maintain some level of anxiety medicine whether that be natural product or vet prescribe as a condition of adoption. We have made a lot of progress with Lotte and she is now down to half a pill a day from 8 pills a day, and we intend to wean her completely off so that we can assess her true nature and determine whether she needs medication at all. So far we are very happy with her progress.
Adoption details
How does our Adoption and Rescue Programme work?
**Steps for our Program 1 - 4 **
Basenji owners contact us from anywhere in Australia and generally the situation is they are wanting to surrender their Basenji(s). Sometimes we also get a rescue situation where a Basenji is lost/abandon, or it has ended up in a pound or with a welfare group. Annually Basenjis that are surrender by their owners to BBNA make up approximately 90% of our cases and around 10% of cases are rescues.
The FIRST step that we do is to assess the safety and welfare of the Basenji. If it is determined that a Basenji needs to be removed from its current environment because the owner won’t keep the dog anymore, or that its safety is at risk, then we will make arrangements to remove the Basenji to a safer environment. In such a case we will transport the Basenji to a Foster Carer who is available and/or to a carer who is the most suitable to take on the Basenji. In some circumstances the owner will continue to look after the dog until a home is found.
Basenjis that come into our care may have varying settling in, health and/or retraining requirements so the SECOND step is to conduct an assessment of the Basenji. A good understanding of the Basenjis in our care helps us to accurately match a Basenji with its future home/family and, it also helps us to understand what we need to do to specifically address the welfare of each Basenji.
The THIRD step is to ascertain what veterinary treatment the Basenji needs. In many cases Basenjis that come into our care will need their vaccinations brought up to date and desexing. Sometimes we will need to do testing and/or provide medical treatment to a Basenji.
The FOURTH step is to develop a profile of each Basenji and advertise the dog. We publish all our Basenji profiles with photos on Social Media, the BBNA website, Pet Rescue and Dogzonline. Our Basenji profile contains information for example on: temperament, behaviour, medical issues, vaccinations, and the location of the Basenji.
**Steps for Potential Adopters 5 - 6**
Contact the BBNA Rescue and Adoption Co-ordinator via email or mobile number and we will discuss your specific requirements. We will email you a detailed profile of the Basenji that is available for adoption.
Once we get suitable candidates that would like to adopt, our FIFTH step is to do further shortlisting and then we will arrange for an environment check with potential adopters. It is important that we carefully match the right adopter with the Basenji available for adoption. BBNA has a number of volunteers who are situated in every state of Australia who help us to do things like: transporting Basenjis, conducting environment checks, liaising with current and future owners, Foster Caring, and being available to advise/help the new owners. Without the involvement of these volunteers BBNA could NOT run its adoption and rescue programme so successfully.
Once we reach an agreement to proceed with a new owner then the SIXTH step is to organise our documentation and transportation to take the Basenji(s) to the new home. Prior to the Basenji being released for adoption, new owners are required to jointly sign an Adoption Agreement with BBNA and to transfer all adoption fees and any associated transport costs to BBNA's welfare account. Adopters are also automatically given 1 year free Associate membership with BBNA, which they can choose to renew if they would like to remain a member.
