Ah, wat een vondst! Gitte, kom kijken!! Wat denk je hiervan? Wel zwaar, hé?

Hela, ik heb het wel gevonden, niet afpakken, hoor! Neen, ik wil er nu mee spelen… Dit wordt weer zo’n touwtrekgevecht. Oei, Gitte heeft het! Airedale-verstand gebruiken nu, voorzichtig…

En wie wint er? En loopt er mee heen???

For the German friends: scroll a little further for a version without music, 😦 that will work overthere…

Today I had a “rendez-vous” with Kato and Jaimie, two Irish Woulfhounds. But their mum was ill today, so they weren’t allowed to come. Weather was good so my mum said we could go anyway…

She often has great ideas, my mum (and often not, when she is stubborn!!), but today’s idea was supersplendidfantastic! What did we do? We went to a place, a very very very very big place the humans call Linkeroever.
My mum never wanted to go there as long as I didn’t ALWAYS came on her command! Because that place is very big, has no fence like other dogparks in town and dogs can get lost there… or killed if they run to the highway… My mum knows that I don’t want to loose her or I don’t want her to be killed by a car and when she falls in the water, well… 😉 – So I did agree: mum’s safety first! 😉

After almost  two years of training (really necessary, I admit!) with the whistle-language… (tut-tut-tuuuuut means: come now here as quick as you can), I was already off the leash at the seaside a few weeks ago. And I behaved as a good girl, a very good girl. So finally we went today to that place all my friends talk about!

And me???? I was the best girl ever! Mum was so proud of me and all the compliments she got of other mums and dads saying I’m such a nice and lovely and cute dog and that I obey so well!

I barked once to say that I’m not just any dog: I’m an airedale-lady! And I was real proud of myself! 😉

This morning was rather rough! In the dogpark, my friend Gitte had lots of energy, too much energy… lots of too much energy! The judo-wrestling of today was complicated! But after a few moments I was out with an ippon!
My mum, this time, had the little blinking thing ready so there is a proof of this ippon-situation! (see below!)

But at noon, the human puppy of my mum came over for lunch! Well, pup… the human pup is already 26 years old… She has two dogs too! Shasta (malamute) and Goofy (Berner Sennen). But they didn’t come with her today. That’s a pity! Anyway when she comes, that’s cuddling-time! Oh, yes!

After lunch and dinner (at coffeetime) I’m allowed to cuddle, I can get on the knees of my mum or dad and look around over the table. But I may not touch the table! Mischief of the day: I put my head on the table. And nobody said a word?????!!!!!!!! The cuddling went on! Just once, my mum said! I know that word: just once! 😉

I was soooooooo happy with al this attention and cuddles (Not that I don’t get cuddles all the time… ;-))  … so the rest of the day I was a very, very good girl. Mum was proud of me in the store: I did not bark, I sat down and waited when she said so, I didn’t pull on the leash on the way home, not one moment! Mum was soooooooooooooo happy too! She said she thinks that one day, I’ll be (maybe) a perfect aire-lady.

That’s what she hopes, yes! 😉