Grandpa lennox taught me how to read the daily newspaper. You walk very slowly and you sniff everywhere you walk. Smells will tell you everything. Grandpa sometimes wants to comment (he pees…) … that’s the way guys act, of course. Ladies don’t. But that does not mean that I’m not interested! Of course I want to know everything! So is my friend Gitte. She is a Hovawart-lady, only 6 weeks older than I am. After grandpa, she was the first dog I ever met when I came to live with mum and dad.

We are the best of friends: we play together, we fight judo together (wich frightens often other mums and dads, not ours, they laugh!) and we make walks together! We also read the newspaper together! Mum took pics, we did not know though! 🙂

After the newsletter, there was strange action in the dogpark! There is Chiva, a young labrador-lady… She was drinking! Well, see for yourself: believe me it was kind of strange but it was funny! 😉

Few days ago, something was bit strange with my mum! She was looking on the tv-typing-thing… and she started laughing, laughing and laughing! Then she said that this was a cartoot about Kita!

A cartoon, Kita, a cartoon, my dear, hahahaha!

She really can’t stop laughing with this cartoot, my dogness!

And then, after all that laughing, she=my mum got me almost in shock this morning! Imagine this: she enters the room, while I’m still sleeping (this lady likes “les grasses matinées”). I open my eyes and the first thing I see is the blinking thing in mums hand! My dogness, she is filming!!! She opens the door to next room to let grandpa Lennox in but she goes on filming. Okay, she does what she wants… 🙂

 I’ll get up, breakfast will come soon, grandpa says… 😉 

And now, there is proof that the cartoot is about me, mum says. She only stopped filming to early, she missed my yawn. 😦 You only see my tongue come out when I start yawning. Well, that’s grandpa’s fault, he wanted his breakfast quickly and pushed my mum, so her finger pushed on the blinking thing… That grandpa!!! 

Have a look at cartoot and video… 🙂

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Big surprise this morning in the dogpark! I made a new friend! I have lots of friends as you know. And I often meet new friends. Nothing new. 😉

But this one is a bit special! His name is Didi (comes from Didier). This young boy is 8 months old. No, that’s not special! But!!! He is a mix of a Sharpei and… an airedale! Isn’t that special? Boy is coming from the shelter, so he is a rescue-doggie! Nobody wanted this sweetheart untill his mum saw him! He is a sweetie and very happy with his mum, but as an airedale, he is… stubborn. I heard his mum tell it to my mum. 

We did play fine, but yes he is a bit stubborn… if he thinks it’s time to stop playing, well, playing is finished. Then we run a bit… 🙂 That’s fine for me too! 😉

Mum is still busy with this cleaning spring, euh, clean springing…

You silly little one: spring cleaning!

So mum is still springing and cleaning and some times she does not want my help! I’m of good service though. 😉 But if I get a buffalo-skin-chewing-bone, I forget helping immediately! Grandpa understands, he says. But he says I still have to learn to chew as a lady! He can not stop laughing with all my silly faces he says! he says I start civilised but it gets worser and worser…  He said he would get a laughing-illness one day, looking at me chewing!

Mum saw it too and got the blinking thing of course. She says this is a real fototoot, as they make for fashion magazines. Grandpa grouched I can call myself happy there is no magazine for silly faces! Gggrrr. He always has comments!
Mum made a dia-show. I don’t know what that is, but she laughs a lot with it! 😦

Grandpa said he does not understand where mum thaught to gain some time, giving me a chewing bone… Really, my grandpa gets old, mum did not gain anything, I was the one gaining!! A chew bone! 🙂

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These warm summerdays? One good thing about it! We go to the dogpark in the morning, when it is still rather fresh and we stay there for a long time! So, we meet lots of friends, our “summerfriends”.
One of these friends is Juju! I only see her in summertime. 🙂 And she is the one with the ball with a tail! I would like to get that ball too! Every year again, we play the same game… Last year, I was frustrated, could not get the ball… but this year, in the end, she gave it to me!   🙂

And then there was Truco (with the two different eyes) and his dad. Truco’s dad was sitting in my tree, reading something on his black speaking box… would like to read that too, of course, so I tried to distract him… hahaha! Truco was cheering although he said I would not be able too read it. But I did.  😉

Proove of all this is in the blinking box! 🙂

This morning…

One year earlier…

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Mum has this friend, a very good friend for a very long time! They met at boarding school wwhen they were 12 years old… So they know each other for more than 40 years. Grandpa says she was already there when he came and her grandpa-dog became 16 years old before going to the bridge!

Anyway, mum’s friend is at the Belgian coast for a month every year. She likesthe beach and spending time there! At the beach, there is this custom, excisting since ever! Children make paper flowers, collect shells and start their shop! They buy and ssell flowers. Money? The shells!

Mum’s friend makes of these flower, very nice flowers. She started making them for her kids and she still does (her human pups have pups of their own now!) for children at the beach, to make them happy. As you understand she is an expert after all these years. So mum sked her to make some for her, finally! 😉

Well, she did! And now I have these beautiful beach-made-flowers near my bed! Mum is in love with the colours, they make her smile… 🙂 Fototoot of course! One special flower for a very far away-friend… 😉

I’m all excited! I really am! 🙂
I have these very nice and enthousiastic American fans in Berlin. Yes, yes, they are from Michigan but now they live in Europe, in Berlin in Germany! And you know what? Since a few days they have Islay, a little airedale girl. She is ten weeks old now and just arrived with her new mum and dad. I looked at the pics, together with my mum: not once, but several times! Islay willbe a city-girl just like me! She’ll be a real city-lady, in a city bigger than mine! Oh waaauw!!

And then I got a little curious. Mum, tell me… Was I as little as little Islay? Mum thinks I was smaller at that age… Mum, show me pics, will you, of me at ten weeks? Mum said she would search on her computer. I arrived at seven weeks, so mum did some counting to ten weeks and found some pics. What do you say, mum? Was I a naughty little one at ten weeks? What was it about that wallpaper-story? Oh, I see it on the pics. My dogness, that was not me, mum, impossible! Mum laughs!
And I was not playing that much with toys but I was annoying grandpa? Hahaha, grandpa, you hear this?

Ggggrrrr, don’t talk me about you being a baby! ggggrrrrr! Has the Islay-baby a grandpa? Tell her not to disturb him too much, will you?!! 😉 I know what I talk about! 🙂

Well, little Islay, live your life as it is meant to be: healthy and happy, warm and active, curious and lazy, naughty and brave, stubborn and gentle… live it in the real airedale-city-lady-spirit!

Today is about good news, bad news and good news! Lot of news! hahaha!

First the numbers… That was the first good news: More than 100.000 views on my story-telling-pages! Well, that is special… when me and mum started this, her friend from the library who learned us this, well he made a joke… He said try to get 100.000 views and laughed with it! Mum’s friend follows too and is impressed by the more than 70 countries from which friends are following… Well, let’s go on fototooting and telling and go to 200.000! 🙂

Than the bad news! Me, I was going to the green clothes! I explained it to mum:I’m all healthy again! No poo-pee anymore! Nothing helped! Off we went to the green clothes. Dad came too… Ohoh, that means injections…   😦  They hold me both then because I don’t like that! First I had to sit on the scale: 23,500 kg (= 51,8 lbs). Green clothe said: Perfect. 🙂 I know, I’m the perfect imperfection, that’s what mum always says. 😉

Then to the consulting room. No, I do not jump on the table. Ggggrrrr, dad is more stubborn than I and in one second I’m up there. Mum giggles. Green clothe is nice. He says I’m wearing a very nice collar (Molly, Monty, Winnie and Taffy: you read this???). He’s petting me while examinating me! He’s nice: he gives treats! All green clothes are nice at this hospital: they all give treats (if you are not ill) (http://www.vvd-dierenkliniek.be)
So I got three vaccinations, a little later than normally because I was ill… remember. Mum has no pics but I asked her to show my passport, especially for Islay’s mum, to show how it is in Belgium. Our green clothes say that this is important!

With every shot I did a very small bark to tell I felt it. Green clothe giggled and said I’m a vocal type! What does he mean??? 5 treats?  🙂  Yes, I’ll jump off the table all by myself, thank you! What does he explain? Come back in four weeks? For 5 treats? Of course! Treats were very small, but 5 treats are 5 treats! 😉

And then? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Mum says it is too hot to go to the dogpark this afternoon: 30° C, in the shadow. In the sun it is a lot more, she says… So we go to the park for a lazy walk. That’s what she says…

Lazy?… We met a rock! Mum said something about Dusty to be very pleased in this situation? Why? He climbs on it? Not in trees but on rocks? I have to try that too! Ohohoh, it’s not easy, this rock climbing… Sit down? No way!! He is quit a hero, Dusty! I prefer my tree! 😉

Then we had a rest in the daisies-grass. At least, mum had, I was sniffing around. Mum said she did not see my most beautiful side, while resting! 😉 lol!

Afterwards we went home and mum was going on with this kind of spring cleaning! In the middle of summer! 🙂 And? … She found me! I mean: she found the drawings of me when I was about 7 or 8 months old. It was a birthday present of one of mum’s friends. For a long time the drawings were on the wall, but now mum is going to get them in some wood before putting them back, she says… What does she mean???

Anyway, I take a nap… zzzzzz….

Mum, why are there no friends in the dogpark? We have holidays, why don’t they come? What does she say? Maybe they have no holidays?

Mum, really, I don’t know what you are talking about! What does it mean “apporteren”? Oh, you throw the toy and I fetch it and I bring it to you?? Do you think that I think that is a good idea? Bring it to you? If the toy is for me, why should I bring it to you? Explain me that! Oh, you will throw it again? What for? To fetch it again and bring it to you?
My dogness, that is a bit silly, no? But if I can do you a pleasure to play this silly game with you, well, let’s try! 🙂

Okay, she throws. I’ll run after it! Now she calls me, I go to her, without the toy! Seems not be how it should be, I go back to fetch the toy. Now I run to mum.

Sit, Kita! Sit! In the hand!

Ohohoh, she has a treat? I sit. And then I give the toy in her left hand, I get the treat from her right hand! Mum is very pleased! Very pleased!

Well done, Kita!

She throws again? Think this must be the same procedure! Okay: run, fetch, run, sit, give it, treat. Think I like it a bit. ❤ Again and again, even without treats! And again… 6 times! Mum, this is enough! Enough is enough, this toy is mine! I stay here. 
What do I see? A little friend entering the dogpark? YES!

Toy is forgotten!

When we go home mum says this is quit some news… me bringing the toy to her, several times! Mum, listen, I’m a lady and I (sometimes) can behave like a lady, just to please you! 😉

By the way, mum was so impressed that she forgot to check the blinking thing. She tought she was filming, but she only has pics… You’ll have to dream the running! lol! 😉