Sissie Lizzie, we go to… a meeting!

Sissie, listen to me now! Choose yourself a nice outfit, we are going out!
Mum, I want the Australian cat-in-the-hat-bandana! Then I’m dressed at my best! 🙂
Sissie, no, not one of my bandanas for you, you’ll tear them apart. Choose yourself a great collar! – No harm can be done that way! 😉
Great choise, française, you have a nose for charming clothing! The British red terrier collar.

Stop it, stop calling me always the Lady-knows-it-all. I just do know it all – accept it! Get out of the car and follow us! 😉
You see it, I told you: you would not believe your eyes! So many, many, many airedales and mums and dads! ❤ I tell you: more than last year! Although it is very, very cold today!
Yes, you ‘miss questions’, we can off leash in a moment, on the beach! Be happy you have a big sister to watch you! I could not off the leash on the beach at your age! 😉
And there is Louis, a Belgian friend between all these Dutch dales! 🙂

Mum, you put all the pictures with the story, will you? No, there not too many! There are never too many pics with dales! 🙂 And the friends can search for me and sissie, we are  dressed to be recognised! 😉 😉 Yes, mum, and the pics in the restaurant too, where we were well behaving during the raffle! 😉

Okay, sissie, I admit, you are not bad at all: you almost behaved as a lady. You are a quick learner! In less then a month!! I knew it: I am a good teacher! New business started! 😉

PS The nice airedale-loving-lady with the cats made great pics of us too! Mum will add them in the end, all together, and put her name with them! 🙂

 

 

Pictures made by Maya Van Breemen:

 

Dale-trio… in action!

Since a week mum and dad realised it too: the “heat” is gone… Yes, it’s almost winter. I said it for weeks. But they did not listen.
Anyway, it means that without “heat” we can go to big dogparks, parks with fences… for the française… hahaha. Not old enough yet to go to my huge park (which is not fenced).

You remember I have this friend Louis? Well today we had a playdate with him in a big park somewhere in Antwerp. Same one as where I met him last time!

We had fun! To start there was a kind of treat-bar! 🙂 A mister with treats for all the doggies! His one is very, very big!!! 🙂

Then we played and ran and met lots of friends. Just one very big black one was not too friendly! He attacked me! Growling and trying to bite me. I know what to do! I immediatly went on my back and growled too. People (my mum too!) were yelling and his dad came to get the black one. He went on the leash! 🙂
And me? I got up and calmly walked to my mum to comfort her. Nothing wrong, mum! Come one, let’s go and play! 😉

And we did! We were running more than an hour… Can tell you that we were tired in the end! Till saturday, they said! Oh yes, this Lizzie sissie will not believe her eyes on saturday, my dogness! 🙂 And she’ll even have less to tell afterwards, that tired she will be! 😉

 

Lessons to be thaught… and learned!

The learning seems the most difficult part for this one, for our française! 😉 🙂

Well, I explain it to you! You know this lady is a mum’s girl! But sometimes I’m a dad’s girl too. And I exactly know when I want to be dad’s girl. 😉
You see, there is one couch in the house that more or less is dad’s couch. If I am a good girl, I can lie there… Dad allowes us, you know!
daddy’s girl…

But now there is the française: she is the daddy’s girl in the house these days… Of course you get the picture! She was with dad on the couch! And I could not…
But we cleared that out, oh yes, we did! When dad was not there, I got in… She came too… Took as much place as I could, of course! We had a nice nap! 🙂

But then dad came and made this noice with his fingers. I know what dad’s language means: the couch is no longer for doggies! Lizzie was very puzzled! Why do you go out this nice bed?
That did not take long… hahahaha! Mum and dad wanted to see the news on TV! Even françaises get off then! 🙂

Listen carefully French new little one! There are some rules here about this couch!
1. You never go in with wet or dirty paws, then there is a chair in it! 😉 That must be even clear enough for françaises. 😉
2. You can go on it when there is no one!
3. You get immediatly off when you hear dad’s finger-noice-click with the pointing: out! Yes, even françaises have too.;-)
4.When we are on the couch I get the biggest and the best place!

Is that very clear, sissie Lizzie?
Lessons are to be thaught clearly… Question is: will this française learn it???

There are examples… and examples…

Okay, finally they got my message! Me and mum and dad, we took sissie Lizzie to the beach! My dogness, the française really is a wild one! That’s what grandpa said about me! Hahahaha. So now I say it about sissie! 😉

Tried to learn her the running business. No problem… We were teaching her the whistle language. I run away, of course the new little one followed me: she likes to bite in my hind legs… 😦 …dad or mum whistle and we run to them. Business okay! Treats for sure.
Time to learn her some naughty tricks! 😉

Look, sissie, over there are the man trying to catch shrimps! Come on! It’s far, I know but we go there! Go! No no, not this time: don’t go back to the whistle language! What? You return? I go on! Lots to learn this new little one! This old little one knows when to do as she pleases. 😉

Oh, that sounds not good at all… The française gets the treats and I don’t? Because I did not come? WHAT? ME, the Iady should take an example of HER??? Go figure this! Ggggrrrrr.

That situation -she being the example – took only five minutes! I’ll tell you. I had to poo and what did the française do? She ate a part of it… Booooooo bah! Mum and dad didn’t like that, not to say they were a bit furious! You hear this, little française? You heard it very well? What they said just now? You should take an example of ME, the lady! ❤ I don’t do such disgusting things (anymore). 🙂

 

 

 

 

Helping out… not really appreciated

p1400996-85x100– “Dad, can we watch?”
– “Sure you can, Lizzie…”
– “Viens, Kita, ça semble rigolo! Dad, can we help too?”
– “Not really, Lizzie, I’m putting this table together, and I’m guessing that’s not your thing, girls… Not really my thing either, to be honest, but Mum wants it in our dining room, so…”
– “What do you think I can do with this toy, Kita? Tu sais toujours tout, non?

Dad doesn’t seem too happy about ma curiosité and my willingness to help out. “Lizzie! Do not touch that! I’ll need that screwdriver in a minute.” – Smartass Kita smiles haughtily. She ‘knows’, vous savez… – Maybe I can taste one of these many little ones then? – “Watch out, Lizzie! If you swallow one , we go straight to the vet’s!” Oh no, not the Green Clothes again! 😦

I’ll play with this jouet instead. “That’s not a dog’s toy, silly!” Well, well, there you have Lady Know-It-All again… “That’s a hammer, Lizzie,” Dad intervenes, “I’ll take that from you now.” If I’m not allowed to touch anything or play with anything, what is the whole point of keeping an eye on this game, anyway? C’est tellement ennuyeux… I think I’m going to take a nap. 😉

“You can’t, Lizzie! We must take care of our inspection business. I did explain the businesses to you, didn’t I?” To show how it is done, Kita has her nosy nose on every move Dad makes. OK, I’ll have a quick glance myself, et après je retourne à ma sieste.:-) Dad seems very pleased with himself. Looks fine to me. Once you’ve seen a table, you’ve seen them all, n’est-ce pas? 😉

Sissie Lizzie

Look! … Battle of the week!

As you know, these days we only are allowed to play with cardboard! That’s harmless and this française at our house does not eat that! 😉

But then, all over sudden the française found something else in the box with the toys. A rope, a knotted rope! Get the picture? 😉

Yep, we had the battle of the week! And this time, I did not give in! Mostly because we found a second rope, in the end! Got mine in my littl house with me. That’s my territory! No Lizzies allowed! Or I do as grandpa did: I growl. Not as hard as he, but I growl! 😉
Of course I can go in hers, but she not in mine! 🙂

I had all the time to tear mine apart! 😉 ❤ Lizzie started tearing at hers, but the fool started eating what she got off! Game over, mum said! 
So, no more rope-ripping in our house! 😦 She really can be a little pest, that française! 😦

PS Mum had the red thing ready: toot and video! 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trendy fashion… pour cette Dame!

p1400996-85x100“This is really really very very good, Lizzie!!!” Kita is sitting next to me in the backseat of the car, and she looks enthusiastic this time, definitely not worried for a change. Are we heading to a playground or a dog park that I haven’t seen yet? “I know where we are going…” Oh no, she has that boastful tone again… Quelle fanfare! “You’ll see, and… you’ll like it!” Mais enfin! Why is this Lady Know-It-All always telling me things in advance, without telling anything! 😦

De toute façon, Kita is right this time. I jump out of the car – only after I am allowed to, bien sûr – and the first thing I see: a giant picture of un très beau garçon! This can’t go wrong! Oh, and I smell doggie treats, and doggie food, and… lots of other tempting and promising smells! I do not know what this place is, but… c’est le Paradis! “Come on, Kita, let’s go!” [Yank!] Merde, je suis en laisse! “Wait for the humans to go in, silly!” Kita knows, vous savez. [Sigh]

And who do we have here at the door? I know this funny sweet cuddly lady! She came to visit us at home the other day, and she brought loads of doggie food. I don’t know her name – Kita calls her The Human Pup. Peu importe, she really is nice and I liked her from the moment I met her. She can hug me anytime, as much as she wants. Dad is discussing a new harness for me with her. I can’t figure out why, but all the ones we have at home, seem too big for me… 😦

“Can I try it on???” Human Pup adjusts the straps until it fits just fine. Regarde moi! “Mum, do you have your red blinking thing ready? Here I come!” Kita is watching enviously. “Oh, petite française, stop showing off, will you?” – “Ah non! Today I’m the Lady of the House, peut-être pas at our house (yet), but in this Doggie Paradise… Oui, aujourd’hui, c’est moi La Dame AT!” ❤ 🙂

Sissie Lizzie

For this lady? … Real me-time!

Sometimes she is not that stupid at all, my mum… I won’t have any moustache or beard left with the Lizzie-française in the house. I told her, I needed some time off. I really needed some off-biteyface-holiday, I told her! 🙂

Okay, she said, ladies sometimes need me-time. I understand. I like the word: me-time!
It means that me and mum we go al alone to the huge dogpark. No sissie to annoy me and my businesses! Yeeey!!! ❤

Of we went, for the sunday afternoon! Nice weather too! Met some new friends, found a ball to fool around with – without the française taking it from me…
Mum says I should be more like grandpa: a good growl from time to time would do the trick, she says. Well – sigh – I’m not of that kind… I’m a lady, you know! Although she can’t touch my dinner, that goes too far! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. 😉

In the end, sissie came to the huge dogpark with dad. But on the leash! hahahaha! There still is the heat-thing and… She does not know the whistle-language yet! Hahahaha! 😉
Lot to learn, sissie, before you are a lady! 😉

Hello … from this side!

Dear grandpa Lennox

Today, two years ago you went to the Rainbow Bridge. I remember you being carried out in your bed, to the green clothes’ place… and never coming back.

Me and mum and dad, we still miss you. You will never be forgotten although we have this française in the house now. ❤

I already told you about the new little one. I’m the oldest little one now: I get my dinner first, I get treats first… and so on! You know all about that!
I never realised you were that patient with me! It seems that I spend my days with waiting now for the new little one to obey! My dogness! 😉

But maybe I’m a little bit different: if I claim MY bed, I get it! You never claimed it! 😉
If I want a toy I get it, although we mostly play with cardboard! That’s the safest thing these days, mum says… although she has to clean up after us!
And you remember my shoppingbag? I still have it, and if I claim it, I get it from this française!
Anyhow, sissie Lizzie is the sweetest thing ever… when she sleeps! 😉 ❤

So grandpa, have a nice rememberance-arrival-party tonight, up there at the Bridge! We’ll think of you! ❤

Big wet kisses
Kita Van ’t Asbroek

PS Some pics to prove that I claim and get it! 😉 As you well know from experience! hahaha! 😉

 

 

Finally… she got it, my mum!

I told her again, and again and again. And do you think she listens? No!… Stubborn mum… she surely was an airedale in a previous live! 🙂

Every time, at breakfast and at dinner time, the française wanted my food! She seemed not to like hers! Than, when I finished mine, she started to eat hers with “long teeth”, we say in Dutch. That means: without appetite and very slowly. She never finished hers! 😦
And I would not finish hers neither… 😉

So I started to explain to my mum: give her the same as I get. Well, it took some time, but since a few days sissie Lizzie gets the same food as I get. One problem solved! Maybe she will grow a bit! 🙂 ❤ And get a lady-figure! 😉

But now there is a new problem… 😦
We have to sit quietly and wait while mum or dad prepare dinner… Oh, my dogness. Ooooohooohoooh, my dogness! Explain that to this française!
So it takes very long, and then I mean: VERY LONG before we finally get it. Every time this Lizzie-baby starts running and jumping, mum or dad wait and don’t go on preparing… Get the picture? 😦

But then: moment suprême! I get my dinner first! I’m the oldest! And only then the ‘new little one’ gets hers. hahaha! 🙂