Dear grandpa Lennox

Today it is a kind of gotcha day… that’s why I write you! Two-months-gotcha-day of sissie Lizzie, better known all around the world as the française!
As you know we still think off you down here and we talk about you! But these days, mum often says that the française surely is a “rincation” of you, that must be, she says! 🙂 ❤

[Reincarnation, Kita, reincarnation! If you write, do tell him correctly – sigh!]

So as I was saying, sissie seems to be your “rincation”. The most amusing part of this is that I know now a lot of things of you, grandpa, that you never told me! 😉
You must have been quite a character when you arrived and you were three years old! Wow!

It seems that…
❤ You pulled so hard on the leash that you ‘worked’ mum in the hospital for a few days! My dogness! Well Lizzie does too, at least she did but no one in the hospital. She is a quick learner!
❤ You were jumping around and jumping up all the time to get your food! Hahaha, Lizzie does too! But again: she learns quickly. She sits now and only jumps once or twice…
❤ You always ate very, very fast… you still did as a grandpa! Well, Lizzie does too… no quick learning for that matter! 😉
❤ You barked and started acting as a wild one when seeing a bird, rabbit, cat or whatever that moves, outside! Again, so does the française… slow learning for her in this situations… 😉
❤ You were always calm passing another dog but you could be quite angry when outside another dog started to yell and bark at you and then you made noise for ten dogs! 😉 We have such a française at our hands now too! 😉 She learns, but… mmmm.
❤ You were the best friends with every dog, but off leash… even the ones who attacked you before! (You were attacked by two big Turkish sheperds, 2 times your size??????) Great guy you did accept them in the dogpark afterwards!! Anyway, sissie is too.
❤ You were cuddling very much with dad, a real cuddler, dad says… The française is too! Incredible!
❤ You jumped up against people when you liked them very much and you were enthousiastic! Again: Lizzie does too… rather slow learning … 😦
❤ You were a daddy’s boy, Lizzie is too… at least a daddy’s girl!! hahaha 🙂
❤ You were a runner and very energetic when you were young, never tired! You took life at the wild side! I can tell you that this new little one does the same!
❤ You had this impossibly big will to please! I know that! I can tell Lizzie has too! Incredible! She is not stubborn at all! You tell her once to sit, she does. That’s not really airedale-like! Not at all!
❤ You were the most incredible dog ever, one out of a million, dad always says: big chance mum and dad found you! Well they say the same about Lizzie! For me YOU will always be the most incredible one…

You see, I know a lot of you now… You must have been quite a character, pppffffff! 😉 And that is why they say here that the française is your “rincation”… pppfffff… difficult to understand for me.

Anyway, it is almost dinner time… get the picture? 😉

Big hugs from

Kita Van ‘Asbroek, better known to you as the little one (although I am bigger than you)

– “This is very nice, Lizzie!”
Ah non, there we go again! Miss Know-It-All keeps informing me about what comes next. J’en ai vraiment marre!
– “We are heading for the huge dogpark alright!”
– Ah, ça change tout, bien sûr! Since this ‘heat thing’ ended (vous souvenez-vous?), we’ve been there several times and we can run free as much as we like. C’est génial!  🙂

“Viens, Kita, on y va!” What is keeping her, sniffing around at the entrance? We have lots of work to do! Si je me rappelle bien, running business comes first. Next we go to the hill over there, where all the rabbit holes are, for a thorough inspection, and after that we sneak out of sight to go to the brook, to get ourselves some nice mud-boots. Mum hates that! 🙂

“Look, Kita, there is a handsome gentleman over there!” Je vais flâner un peu avec lui… Do you want to play tag? Oh, je m’excuse, but I really have to go now: smartass Kita is already at the hill, and she’ll be nagging about me not attending to the businesses! A très bientôt, mon beau! “Wait for me, Kita, here I come!” Oh, she’s already tiptoeing to the brookside…

“Kita! Kita! Where are you?” Elle est partie! I can’t find her anywhere… “Kita!” Oh no, there you have it: that’s Dad’s whistle! I have to go back! But I’ve lost track of Kita and I don’t even know where the whistle comes from! Ca alors! Quoi faire? “Kita! Kita, wait for me!” Ce n’est pas possible! There is the whistle again, with more insistence… I’m in big trouble! 😦

Is that Kita over there? This is killing me! Trop stressant! – Ouf! There you have Mom and Dad. Kita has already found them. I run all I’ve got, straight to Dad. Never mind the treat, I’m happy as I am, having found you et tout. “Come on, Lizzie, let’s run off again, to the brook.” –”Non, merci, Kita, I’m staying with Dad now. We’ll see about that next time…”

Sissie Lizzie