Travel safe… cousin Islay!

Dear cousin Islay

I think it’s the moment to write you again, today! My mum says tomorrow is a big day for you. You are leaving the city in which you grew up to become a real aire-city-girl and soon you will be teenager-off and a real lady.

So, I’ll give some other European advice before you go to the States…

Never forget you are a city dale-lady! City-dale-ladies behave like ladies: they know how to travel and how to be polite and friendly. But you know that, we saw it in Cologne. City-ladies can be country-bandits too: that’s for relaxation-purposes only. Because it can be stressy to act like a lady… surely a city-lady. Never forget to remind your mum and dad of this! 😉

Never forget your European roots, my dear! Where you go you will be special because of these roots! Be proud of them, just as we do over here! So, I suggest you stay in touch with your cousin (me! 🙂 )and you write me once in a while and tell and teach me about the States, just as I thaught you about European manners (the French kisses, remember?). I count on that, my dear! ❤

Well, travel safe: it is far and it will take quite some time, but it will be okay! And then: enjoy your new home! Greet your human grandparents and human uncles and aunts from me too, will you? xoxox And be sure to make lots and lots of new doggie-friends! Send me some pics, will you?! 🙂

Big, big loving hugs to you and your mum and dad! ❤

Kita

PS Let me know when you arrive, then I’ll feel “tranquille”! 😉

 

Bloopblooptoot… and art!

This morning, very early, before all that rain, we had so much fun, me and mum! We were laughing all the time!

First we played with the coloured tail. Yes, I was in a good mood and I brought it back 11 times! Sometimes you have to please your mum. Surely when the treats are yummy, you understand? Then I started chewing on the thing and I had to give it back, it disappeared in mum’s bag. 😉

Then mum wanted a fototoot in my repaired dogpark as you can see in the pics. I did pose in funny ways and mum did laugh! So did I! bloopers enough, mum said, now a good one! hahaha, i just walked out of the picture! Hahahaha. Then I was tired of laughing and I lay down for a nice pic. 🙂

Off we went, back home. But then we passed by the new street art. Mum had the short leash and she had to hold it because of the traffic, difficult for good pics, but we have some. We were giggling again, of course! 🙂

In the end, in our street, we saw the orange humans, they are working in the trees! Me, I was jealous, could not go and help! 😉

An almost decent lady has a… breakfast-rendez-vous!

Mum, when do we leave? Is my fur alright? I was a bit impatient this morning! I had this breakfast-rendez-vous with Ernie, the Irish champ! Remember, the one who thaught me to fly! Finally off we went. With the car of course, that’s why mum and dad came too! 😉

We went to a place near the river Scheldt. No, no, not at home, up the river for about 16 kms (9,9 miles). There is a nice place to have breakfast. Ernie is a great guy, he is almost 9 now and he turns into a grandpa! Go figure: he fell asleep during breakfast! 😉

Afterwards we did a nice walk along river Scheldt. River here is smaller than in Antwerp! 😉 The men (Ernie and the 2 dads) went first. Everything safe? We ladies followed! (me and the mums). 😉
We saw street art too! Mum loves street art, I was more interested in the grass!

And then it started raining. We were all wet! My fur is waterproof: I am always “bien coiffée”. But mum had one of those “bad-fur-days”, hahaha! 🙂

At home, I had my nap, of course, after all these events, like a decent lady. (Mum often says I’m not decent enough, imagine that!) 🙂

Busy saturday… with fashionshow!

What a busy saturday!!!

1. Kita-Ten-Miles-running on the beach…. Tiring, that’s to understand for everybody. 😉

2. At noon: visit at the restaurant with mum and dad! Got a bully stick, me… a hard one! ❤ Weary too!

3. Big walk in the neighbourhood wit very, very big people… I’m curious, and that gets me tired too! 😉

4. “Coiffure”-time, mum said when we came home. pppffff… on that blue table… 😦

5. Fashionshow and fototoot with my new bandana… maybe humans don’t call me boy anymore! 😦  Fototoots need concentration… yes: tiring too!

6. I need a nap!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… for the rest of the day, please!!! 😉

 

Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitaaa!… klikklikklikklik!… tut tut tuuuuuuuuuuuuut!

Very often mums and dads in the huge dogpark and on the beach ask my mum how it comes that I (mostly) am very good in showing up when called! Mum says: training and she always talks about Pavlov too! I don’t know that dog and what he has to do with it!

This time, I’ll give you my version of the facts… 😉

When I was only a baby, mum called me with a higher voice: Kiiiiiiiiitaaaaaa… and I went to see her! Oh yes, if I went there very quickly, I got a treat! A little kibble of my breakfast or dinner!

Other doggies got yummie treats… When I was a teenager, I learned that you could act as you wish in stead of running when you hear: Kiiiiiitaaaa….! First result: other treats, but very small ones. So, I practiced again the “deaf girl”.

But then there was Lucien’s mum: she made a nice noise when the little boy did something wrong! I liked the sound and always went to see what happened. Go figure! Few weeks later my mum had that funny thing too…. She clicked or kind of ringed the bell and I always went to see her! I’m too curious, me! 😉 And best part, the nice noise always was accompanied by a treat! 🙂

But the klikklik-thing was rather soft and sometimes I was far away. So mum bought a whistle. She did klikklik and tut tut tuuuuuuuut at the same time. If I went there when I heard the two noices: two treats. Soon mum only used the whistle-language AND very good treats! Dried chicken!
The farther away I am, the faster I get back when the whistle-language is used… Yes, when whistle is used I ALWAYS get a treat! 

And better: every mum and dad is jealous of me and my mum! We are a real team, you know! As a full grown lady, most of time, I check if my mum is all right and go back to her without her calling me? Treats too? Not always, but often…

Video shows it all! It is long though… with a blooper in the end!

PS Of course, there are bloopers! 😦 But only one on about 30 times, mum says… I even came back with my shark!