Now, I have this beautiful harness! Thanks, mum, I’m so proud about it. So I want to show myself, of course, just as a lady does!

There is just this annoying problem! A real beauty-issue! My dogness, I’m so embarrassed! I explained it to my mum, she did not agree! What did you expect?   😦

My coiffure is in a real “bad day” these days! My dogness, yes! My curls don’t curl as they should! Embarrassing, no? I think so! It looks like a bush growing on my left side. And I could live with that, I turn my nice side to you, you see, to show my harness!
BUT… there is the problem in the middle of my back! Seems as if wings are growing there! I’m so ashamed! Everybody who admires my harness, sees it! I asked mum to brush it again! Nothing to do about it, “it” always gets “up” again!   😦

Mum says I have to be patient! We’ll go to the hairdresser’s within a month! A month!!! Mum, can’t you do some ‘scissoring’, as you did around my eyes? No way, she says!   😦

I pity myself… can’t laugh today!

Today I’m still very tired! How come? Because of yesterday! That was a pretty filled day, no time for naps…

First we went to the dogpark in the morning! It really was gent’s day over there! My dogness, all those machos wanting to be the biggest macho! Even my grandpa wanted to act like a six year old… Mum says he’ll never learn! He always was the boss and wants to stay the boss, that’s a clear thing! So, I was the only female and completely ignored by all the rest. But I was happy about that! I was quietly alone in my tree during the rough playing and the fighting! Blinking box missed the fighting of Duke (dalmation) and Django (border collie) (Lennox barking all the time!) though, mum was too surprised… I saw it coming, she didn’t. 

After lunch I could come in the car with mum, sitting next to her and cuddling… 🙂 Where did we go? When we stopped, I did not know where we were! Never been there before! We go in! What a surprise, this is a petshop! And look! That’s mum’s human pup! I see, she works here now since about six weeks! Of course she likes that! And me too! Pic was taken! And I got a new little harness to go to the dogpark. The human pup knows about aire-lady fashion! It suits me very well and it fits to my new collar! (You see this, Molly and Winnie?)

So after the shopping, I had some showing to do! Of we went for a walk and  to the dogpark to show my new harness! I’m a very proud lady!

Coming home, I had a nice ‘meeting’… Long time, no see: the cat of the neighbours. I’m a little afraid of him… Sssstttt, don’t tell anyone! When I was 8 weeks old, I met him for the first time and then he was an angry one! But now we are distant friends. I want to play but he never wants. He sits and looks at me… But he is nice, very nice! Neighbour (his dad) says he is surprised we get along so well. No fighting with this doglady as he otherwise does! Neighbour does not know aire-ladies don’t want to fight, I think… 😉

There are a few sentences we fear, grandpa and I. When mum says: I’m going to do some cleaning…… Then we both try to be the most invisible dogs ever! Are we afraid of the vacuum cleaner? Oh no, what are you talking about, we even sleep through that noise! What the problem is?

Before the vacuum cleaning starts, we get brushed. Grandpa does not like it, so I don’t like it. I learned that very quickly. I’m not afraid of storms, grandpa does. During the first storm with mum (when I was 11 weeks old), we went outside in the rain and wind and thunder and lightnings because I should not be afraid of it and because I should not copy the behaviour of grandpa. Very smart mum… but for the brushing, mum was less smart… so, I imitate grandpa and I don’t like it.
Smart mum brings grandpa in another room now when I’m brushed, and then I don’t mind that much. Can’t loose my face before grandpa, can I?

So, today was brushing time! Mum puts on the ugly trousers (that’s the signal)… Brushing time is treats-time too! That’s the good part! I asked mum to film a little bit (not all, it takes too much time) and to make pics!

And then??? She said something about grooming only in the beginning of july. She can’t see my eyes anymore? Scissors? Who is that? Oh, grandpa is not here, I can’t ask him. More treats? I got a bit suspicious. What’s that? She opens the treats-bag with that thing too… 
Guess what? My mum “scissored” the hairs away around my eyes! I was a very good girl, she said. But I kept my eyebrows of course! My doggie-mum’s dad would be very proud of me, she said. She says, I have such beautiful eyes she wants to see them! This time I agree with her!

Well, well… tonight holidaymum was in the dogpark. Yihaaa!!! But with her came Lokum and Fritz. This Fritz-guy, well, my dogness, he is special!

First of all, he always wanted to jump on grandpa Lennox. Holidaymum did not want him to do so because grandpa didn’t like it at all. His hips don’t allow all those jumping dogs… Talking about stubborn? Well, that’s what you can say about Fritz! 😉 He was put on the leash for some time.

Then he came after me… Haha! I’m bigger and I can run faster and… I can climb! But we played a little bit, he always run after me.

Then holidaymum wanted to go home… Guess what? Fritz did not want to come… So holidaymum said that I should be her assistant! I did, I always do what holidaymum asks! 🙂 I made him run after me and brought him to the little gate and to holidaymum! My mum was so proud of me! And I got 2 treats! One from holidaymum and one from my mum! 😉

When mum goes to her library… She is not only an airedale-mum, she also is a library-mum, you know… So when mum goes to work, and I stay with grandpa and dad, in the park mum always meets a little doggie called Boubouche. When Boubouche sees my mum, he barks and pulls on the leash. Her dad gets him of the leash, although that’s not permitted and Boubouche runs as fast as he can to be cuddled by my mum. That’s something I understand. When his dad arrives, he goes back on the leash… I never met Boubouche. 😦

Mum and me went to the park for a walk on Friday morning! And guess who we met! Yes! Boubouche! He did not recognize my mum, he did not see her! He only saw me of course! He seems to be a nice guy! He’s smaller than I thought, but he is a nice gentleman! 

When we went on, we passed by the pond, with the fountain! Mum, look! A rainbow! Do you see it too? Is that Grobber and Sadie and sir Darwin and… saying hello to me?   ❤   It is beautifull, isn’t it?   🙂   Can you see it on the pics?

This afternoon was rather busy. We went for a long walk. Weather is fine, it is a bit like summer here these days. But not too hot though, otherwise we wouldn’t walk that much.

First thing that happens? Big surprise! We met two wheaten terriers. Mum never saw one, a real one, in her whole life! Now, we met two of them. With a very friendly dad. He told mum a lot, in French, she had to translate for me. So he told that he wanted two airedales but could not find dales so the choose the wheatens. Very sympathetic ladies!

I was not completely recoverd from mum”s surprise when I got the surprise of MY life! Walking trees! My dogness, I was barkless, so amazed I was! Mum had the blinking box in her hand! We went on in that street, I can tell you, we fell from one surprise in the other! At least, I did. Mum says I was so surprised I acted like a real lady: I forgot to pull on the leash, I forgot to bark, I forgot to whine…
Tell me! Did you ever see an adult horse, smaller than an airedale! No, no, not a cuddletoy! A real one!!! And more than one!

And goats, and gooses and… We walked for two hours to see everything! Nice saturday!

My mum has lots and lots of work. So this wednesday we did not go to the dogpark in the afternoon, but we went in the evening and for a long time! 😉

And who was there? Arkan, the huski! One of my favorite young gentlemen! I did all I could to get his attention so that he would play with me. When I finally had success 🙂  … there came Sammeke (in English: little Sam). This young adolescent with too much hormones wanted to play too… Little bit disturbing… In fact, so disturbing, Arkan walked away… 😦

Pics tell the whole story, mum says! And the movie too! 🙂 Oh, also this: you can hear very well, we live in the city! The noise you hear, well that’s the highway (around Antwerp city) nearby!

training

Good news and bad news! The good news first? Yesterday evening my grandpa went to the vet’s place! He had to go for his annual vaccinations. The poor one, he does not like it at all, he simply hates it, my grandpa. Said he gained weight again because of his special food for the kidney thing… Less treats for him. 😦  

That’s bad news, yes. But that is not THE bad news! He also got another shot of anabolics! Doping! You understand the very bad news? We can’t go to the doggie-olympics for the relay run, when they start organising them! 😦 Would not be fair to go in competion, with that doping. Grandpa says we can run anyway! He is always such an optimistic guy!

Mum said that if I want to go to these Olympics I can train another discipline: the circle-stay! That’s an awfully difficult discipline, at least for me! For those who are not familiar with it. It goes as follows: in the dogpark or on the beach or somewhere else where I am off the leash… I have to sit or lay down (I can choose) and I have to stay. That part is okay. But then mum walks away and makes the stay-sign. That’s okay too. 🙂  But then mum walks around me, a whole circle and I have to stay, I can not move… Oh, that’s not okay! There always is a moment I cannot see my mum!! 😦

But if I really will, I can… 🙂   Mum filmed the bloopers too… That’s the training, she says!