This afternoon, me and my mum we went to the huge dogpark… friday, you know! Big surprises, huge dogpark has a fence these days! And houses too! And trucks? And streets… I do not mind, I’ll worry later, I first will have wet paws… hahaha: running business and waterbusiness! With a brand new friend of my age: Kazan! A black boy! All black just like grandpa before he got old and grey! 😉 We had a lot of fun! ❤

On the way home I said to mum I had some questions… What will happen in the huge dogpark? A music festival? With dancing? When? Beginning of next month? And they are already working at it? Well, mum, it makes me think of the runningbusiness: ten miles of Antwerp! 😉

Tell me, mum, why humans need all those fences when they want to run and play? When we doggies run and play in the huge dogpark, we need no fences… we behave as we should. Do humans need fences because there are not enough doggies to keep them on the leash to prevent them from doing naughty or dangerous things? I really don’t understand, mum! What does she say? She doesn’t get either but history and experience learned us so? Mum who are History and Experience? Do I know these doggies?

Oooh, Kita, no, you don’t… 🙂 Don’t worry girl, within about three weeks your dogpark is again as it was before! I hope…

Thursday morning before work we went to the little dogpark. I was tired and did not want to play… Why? I got up three times at night, so did mum because I had to pee! When I was not playing, but only peeing, mum hurried to the pharmacist to get me some CranberryActive. (She almost arrived too late at her library!) She was thinking about an urinary infection. The cranberry would help… It did, for 36 hours… 🙂

This morning mum was on the phone with the green clothes, I did hear it! 😉 I did not eat my breakfast, it still is there, untouched. 😦 Off we went… Yep, mum was right about the infection. My pee told so! Me, I did not really understand how the pee did tell that, never heard of talking pee! It had to do with colours. Rest of the pee is to the lab now.

Me? I was examined which I do NOT like, really not! But dad hold me and mum took my snout with two hands. She does not often do that but when she does, she seriously means: keep still and quit! So I did! I even got two syringes in my neck! But I was good and got some dried chicken. I did eat the dried chickn, not my breakfast! 🙂

Now, we are home with a lot of pills for the next 5 days! Yeeey! Lots of cheese and chicken will come my way to make me eat them! hahaha! 😉 And me? I’m resting! Mum is reading her magazine about dogs! It is about airedales again! 17 years ago, it was too and my family was in it! Not this time though… 😦

By the way: this lady still has her girlie figure! She really has! My weight: a very nice 24, 700 kg. (54 pounds), althoug I’m rather tall for a lady. (63 cm= 24.8 inches at the shoulder). And the vet said this lady has very beautiful teeth! 😉 Thank you buffalo-skin!

Did not want to play!

Mum’s magazine, bought yesterday

I am resting!

As you know, we live near the big river Scheldt. We daily walk near the river, and there is a part of this walk… a bit special!

I step up a kind of alley that’s higher than the big path. It is near the water. People can sit on this part too! I like to walk on that!
BUT… In the end my small path is very bizar! It grows higher! And then it stops… 😦

Big problem: it is high!!! And I will NOT jump, from high up there. You hear me quite well: I will NOT jump! I say it, every time: Wafwaf! And no, I won’t come off earlier neither! I am an airedale, lady or not… 😉
I like to climb on paths and trees, but I will NOT jump down, I want to walk back down, all my life long!

So what happens every time? I stay up there, I will NOT jump off at the end, I return!!! before I turn, I give mum this big grinny smile! 😉 Oh yes… and I jump off when I want to! 😉 Like this game! 🙂 ❤

When mum is in a hurry, she takes me off and puts me down, that’s less amusing of course… 😦

Weather is not that good! Many, many clouds and a bit of rain too. Never mind, mum, we go to the huge one, don’t we! Ha, she says yes! I know it: it is sunday morning… no library mum clothes! 😉

Sunday? My dogness! No, it really was a business day! First of all, they started the festival works in the huge dogpark. They already were mowing a big deal of the huge plain… Lots of flowers already gone. So, there we started the first business: fototoot business! 🙂 In the end I really was tired of it! Grrrr! 😉

Then fun started! Bo and Rea were there! Playing in the new sand, men were plowing some parts too! Never mind that too! Sand is big fun to play in! Second business in practice! Digging business! 
But with Rea and Bo, no dull moment! Yep: running business opened!

I would have liked mum carrying me home… but you know her! She is stubborn and she says that real ladies should walk, even after too many business occupations! 😦 At home, I went down and I stayed down for hours! 😉
And mum says I bring the whole damned park home… Think it does not please her too much today… 😉

Fototootbusiness in the flowers which are still there

Enough!!!

Running business!

Digging business!

What? Is that the whole park? You must be kidding!

I am not guilty, you know!

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!

Raining! It’s raining. But me (when I have lots of curls) and my mum, we do not mind! We go out, before breakfast! 😉 But the new red thing does mind, so mum said that the old blinking thing would accompany us! And that was a good idea. Today old blinking thing is my friend! 😉 It worked and… i can show you something quite adventurous!

So we went out early this morning! 🙂 ❤ Nobody, really nobody, on the beach! Except me and my mum! That is fun!!! I can run far, she does not call me every second! ❤
So, when I was far away, something came out of the sea with the upcoming tide. I start to know everything about tides, these days: at sea and at the river Scheldt! I was sniffing and mum came to have a look! Was proud about my prey! 😉 🙂
Mum said I could play but not eat it! So, I run a bit! Crazy mum, it is breakfast-time! Going to try and eat it, whatever she says! Ohohoh! 😦
End of the fun! 😦 Mum took my prey and threw it back in the sea! 😦
And me? I went after it! I completely forgot I do not like a wet belly! Did not find my prey! 😦 And then I realised my wet belly! 😦
No, mum, I’m not happy now, only will produce a half smile for your pic! 😉

PS A detail for the animal-lovers we all are: fish was already dead when I found it!!!

PPSS A friend from facebook thaught us I played with a shark!!! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-spotted_catshark

Where is it?

Still looking for it!

Just half a smile!!!

Nice walk on the dike, by sunset! And not too many people!
If there are not too many human pups playing around on the dike, mum allows me to do what the human pups always do! I get up on the stone benches and walk on them! 🙂
I like that! I am much bigger and I can see everything! 🙂

Then mum said it is still too cold for ice but she thinks it is exactly the weather for a Brussels waffle! Wafwafwaf? What? She starts speaking dog language… This must be a very big occasion or the end of the world… 😉 Wafwafwaf? What might that be? I don’t know that!
So I even was not interested at first, but then I did remark wafwafwaf is something to eat?
Is that ice on top of it, mum? What is whipped cream? I see no Whippet and surely not in your hand! Hahahaha! wafwafwaf with whippet, she is crazy, my mum, I knew it!! 😉

Okay, I’ll wait very patiently untill the very last part! 😦 Procedure is the same as for the ice cream! 😉
Mmmmm, wafwafwaf is yummy! 🙂