Can I bring my dog and cat into The Netherlands?

The Basenji had almost totally disappeared from the West when Europeans came across it in the Congo in 1895. There, the Basenji was prized by locals for its intelligence, courage, speed, and silence. They were assistants to the hunt, chasing wild game into nets for their masters. The Azande and Mangbetu people from the northeastern Congo region describe Basenjis, in the local Lingala language, as mbwá na basɛ́nzi. Translated, this means “dogs of the savages”, or “dogs of the villagers”. The word basɛ́nzi itself is the plural form of mosɛ́nzi which is a deformation of the French insult once used to describe illiterate indigenous Africans: mon singe (meaning “my monkey”). In Kiswahili, another Bantu language, from East Africa, mbwa shenzi translates to “wild dog”. Another local name is m’bwa m’kube m’bwa wamwitu, or “jumping up and down dog”, a reference to their tendency to jump straight up to spot their quarry. However, it should also be noted that in Arabic, dogs from Africa were referred to as 'be'zenji', meaning 'of the tribe of blacks', while during colonial times the term 'shenzi' (Swahili: 'wild' or 'savage' via Arabic 'Zanj' meaning 'black African') was a derogatory term that could be applied to anything shoddy or native, but was used particularly to refer to native dogs (as in 'Shenzi dogs'). (See also "Zanj" and "shenzi").