Tamsala Basenjis

Where health testing and excellent temperament are of equal importance.


FAREWELL

my little old man





BISS CH TAMSALA SILKN SOKSI

Sire : BIS Ch Tamsala Silkn Memory
Dam: Ch Tamsala Snow Crystal (AI)

17.6.96 - 8.4.08

From a litter of 3 - 2 red/white dogs, and a tricolour bitch.




Look Mum, no hands!!




6.5 weeks old


HEALTH TESTING

Hips : 3 : 3 (equivalent OFA Good)
Eyes : Clear
Thyroid normal
Fanconi DNA Marker Linkage Test : Probable Carrier





Soksi was special right from the start - showing angulation that was exceptional. He was a dog that wanted to please ME - anyone else was ignored!!



my first show stack


His movement was exceptional - extremely sound and true in all directions.
Unfortunately, he didn't win as well as he was capable of in the showring - due to the fact that he didn't make it any taller than 16 and 1/4 inches. His sister Sparki had the height and length of leg, but she wasn't the show pony that Soksi was.
He won BIS at a large Open Show - purely on his movement - as were his Group wins.

Soksi had the show personality of a Poodle - freestanding - placing his legs just so, and cocking his head on one side "Like this, Mum??"


He was the sire of :
(from Tamsala Make a Wish)




DUAL AMERICAN CHAMPION TAMSALA ROCKET SOCKS SC, MCX (Exp USA)

and his younger sisters



NORDIC CHAMPION TAMSALA MAKES WAVES (Exp Sweden)




TAMSALA SHES APPLES

dam of
Multi BISS Ch Tamsala Lil Green Apples
Aust Grand Ch Tamsala Forbidden Fruit



and the litter sisters (from BISS/RUBIS Ch Tamsala Honey Myrtle)




GRAND CH TAMSALA AT ANY COST




CH TAMSALA IN THE RED

Soksi had a checkered "career" (healthwise)  later in life.
He had injured his neck over many years, playing roughhouse with his best girlfriend Mary.The Metacam (painkiller) that he was put onto gave him  quality of life.
2 years ago, he developed a sertoli cancer in one testicle and had to be  castrated as a result.
At the same time he was found to have developed a bad heart murmur. He was put on heart medication to alleviate this - and it did make a big difference to him.


Right up to the end, he enjoyed playing with me, rolling on his back in bed, and mock fighting.
He always greeted me with a yodel, and all his life was the most vocal Basenji I have ever bred.
It wasn't his heart that gave out in the end - although the heart murmur had got worse, and his medication had been increased.

It was his neck.
I made the decision that he was not going to have any more pain - and it was the hardest decision I have ever made.

Run free, my little man!!
No more pain