Today was a bit of a special day! Although it didn’t start like that. Just a normal morning: dogpark, breakfast, mum off to work, nap. Bit special: mum got a parcel at the dogpark of Gitte’s mum. Didn’t pay too much attention though, it was nothing to eat, no treats…

But then a package did arrive, not for dad, not for grandpa Lennox and not for me! Nobody touched it. So that must be for mum. Then I secretly had a look at the tv-type-thing and I knew! This is a special day: it’s mum’s birthday today and everybody all over the world seems to know! 😉 Even dad! He went shopping and brought special birthdaybiscuits for this evening.

Finally mum came home! I ran downstairs immediatly! Mum opened the package and smiled! Her French friend knows she likes the seaside! And gues what? I can play with the cardboard! 😉 🙂 Yihaaaa!!!
Mum tells she got a very sweet e-card (what on earth is that?) from the Aura-people! There was an airedale in it! (I understand that word!) Anyway, I don’t know what an e-thing is, but if it is with an airedale, it must be great.

And then the human pup came over too! On a tuesday night! Fun! They were talking about papers and studying and “databases” (and what on earth might that be???)and I had to lay down and be quiet. Less fun! 😦 Bit difficult too!

Finally mum is before the tv-type-machien and says that my friends from all over the world are whishing her a happy birthday! She says that’s very amazing, she never got that many birthdaywishes in her whole life. She repeats all the time: my goodness, my goodness… I think she means: thank you very much everybody in the aireworld and the rest of the world!

When do we repeat this birthday-thing, mum? Tomorrow?

Kita, are you crazy? Time goes fast enough as it is!

What is mum saying? We go home? We are in the dogpark for more then 1,5 hour? Think mum is very mistaken! I think we are here for ten minutes or so.
What else does she say? I played enough? Mum, really, you make another mistake! Can’t play enough, never! That’s clear, she is not an airedale, my mum. Only mums tell such stupid things. You’ll never hear an airedale-lady say she played enough!

And surely not when there is a very handsome and gentle gentleman around! Really, mum, Drago is so much fun to play with, and to run around with. And he does not climb the tree, yet, I should teach him! Yes, today!!
Drago is a mix rothweiler and Stafford terrier, he’s six months old. Yes, maybe a little bit young for me, I admit, but he’s a great guy! He’s so soft and friendly and gentle! Grandpa Lennox says so too!

Today, the fourth of october, is a special day! At least in Belgium! My mum says she thinks that it is the same in other countries. Why call it “Werelddierendag = world animal day = journée mondiale des animaux” if it is not celebrated around the world??? Guess she has a point there! At least this time, which is not often the case… hahaha. Hope she does not read this…

So everybody out there in every continent: in America, North or South, Australia and Antarctica, Asia, Africa and Europe: enjoy this day! Hope for all the fur friends and other animalfriends, that there is something special on the program! 😉

Have a nice weekend! Mum choose some pics, made since the World animal day of last year and now! Have fun!

Oké guys, my collar is a bit of a success, says my mum. She says a foreign friend thinks I’m a red, low flying UFO! Waaauw! That’s me from today on: an UFO-airedale-lady! Waaaauw, wooofwaf, I’m proud of my collar!

Mum, let’s go out, it’s dark, I want to ‘ufo’!

What does she say? I first have to show you the pics of my UFO-collar! And mum says I have to tell it is a little bit expensive. About 20 euros over here. For my overseas friends: mum’s tv-type-machien did some calculating: 27 US-dollars or almost 17 British pounds.
She says I have to be careful with my UFO-collar! 😉 Of course I will be careful, this lady wants to stay an UFO-lady in the dark!

Come on, mum, I told everything you asked, we go out to ‘ufo’! 😉

My goodness! My dogness! This is… well, it is… it is… flashy! My new collar to go out in the dark? Dog, dog, dog… this is special! Worst of all: I can’t hide anymore! I can’t fool mum anymore! She sees me everywhere!

I run to the left, I hide at the right… she sees me and calls or whistles me in the correct direction! That was different before! I could go anywhere in the dark without being seen! I could dig without being seen! End of the darkness-fun!

Mum, why grandpa Lennox does not have to wear this? Only me? I am the lady, you know!… I must admit, I’m the runner and the one who disappears in the dark too… Maybe that has something to do with it? 😦

Film and pics as usual… ;-( of me in the dark… A dark film, my mum says!! Well, what did she expect, really?!! 😉 You see the lights of the buildings and the street, but the red moving light? That’s me!!!

Just have to tell this quickly before my mum wants to work on this tv-type-thing! I think Ernie’s mum has very fine ideas! I really do! Listen to this!

My grandpa Lennox and me, we sometimes eat things we find in the park, especially rabbit droppings and other ‘s…’  … Mum does not like us to do that, that’s mum! We like it, she doesn’t!! 😦
Ernie’s mum told her to give us a banana every day and we won’t do it anymore. Nice advice, very nice advice because we like bananas! We love babanas!

So every day we get a half banana each! Not a whole one! 😦 Anyway: better a half one then no banana at all! See us, mum had the blinking thing to see us waiting! 😉

PS Mum remarked this morning that it works! We eat less rabbit droppings and other s…. Do we, grandpa Lennox?

This time I have no idea where we are going. We go with the car, that’s for sure because I get my harness on and we step in! 🙂 Mum sits next to me, as always when Lennox is not coming. We like that! Cuddling time! 🙂

Where are we now? I have never been here! This is a shop I think! I look around before we go in! Look! A big dog at the entrance: a german shepherd… Where is the airedale? We go in!

My goodness! This is a petshop! And a very big one! A really big one! Yihaaaaa; Wagwoofwaf. never been here! Wafwaf!

Kita, shut up or we will be put out! Sssstttt!

Wafwafwaf! I’ll be quiet! First we choose a collar with lights for me! Within a few weeks it will be dark soon and mum wants to see where I am when I’m off the leash in the dogpark. She knows since last year I can hide very well! This one? Really? Even my overseas friends will see me! 😉 🙂
While dad looks at other collars and leashes-stuff, I may look around, my mum says! No need to say that 2 times! 🙂
I’m sniffing all kind of good things! (Mum watches me!!! only sniffing is allowed – ggrrr)

Kita, find your dinnerfood and Lennox’s too! Be a detective, my girl! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Euh, what does she say? Why is she laughing? Does she think I can not do that? I’ll show her not to mock with me! I step around sniffing! I stop: this smells like the chunks of my grandpa Lennox! i look at mum. Does she see I know it. Yes she does! What an incredible face she makes! hahaha! She puts the bag on the car! She almost does not believe it! Told you, mum, not to mock with my nose!
Now i still have to find mine! YES, YES, YES… these are defenitely mine, I get almost in the hole, on the bags. Mum really is surprised! Hahaha!

Me? Best food-detective ever! 😉

This time, I understand it immediatly! After breakfast mum takes two leashes! So grandpa Lennox is coming too! Think I know what we are going to do! To the dogpark and then… maybe to holidaymum?

Yes! Yes! Yes! Holidaymum is there! What did I say!
Oh, and Eros is there too? And Ernie is coming! Grandpa, this sounds like big fun! We play all day! Even Ernie played this time! Yes! Great Friday while mum is to the city of ‘Gent’, visiting a ‘seamum of dings’.

Help! Design museum, Kita! Design museum!

So, while mum was at the ‘dings’, we had a great time! Are we already going home, holidaymum? It seems so! We arrive in the dogpark! Yes, my mum is there! Yes, yes, I run as fast as I can to say hello and I jump! Mum even does not say no? And I jump up? 😉 Waauw, she must be happy to see me!

Oh, and look over there! My new big friend is there too! Konan, Konan… I’m here! Konan is a giant gentleman Leonberger of two years old! He is very gentle and he is a man! A very big man, I like him! Mum, you have the blinking box to make pics? We move too much to have good pictures? Well, we play, you have to understand! 😉

My mum’s human pup has a vegetable garden, I already told that! We went to see that! I tell you: this garden is weird! There are growing balls in it!

The human pup showed me the ball. Of course I wanted to play with it! I couldn’t! I tell you: what’s the idea like: to make growing balls in your garden and then, you cannot play with them! This airedale-lady thinks that is very stupid! 😉

And then, it was even getting more crazy! They were eating the ball! I tell you! Yes, it is the truth: they were eating the ball! And the good news? I got a very little piece of it, so did my grandpa Lennox! Yummie! Very yummie! Tasted better than the tennisballs in the dogpark! Those humans know what is good, I admit that! 🙂
Maybe it is not that stupid to have growing balls in the garden?? 😉

In my life, bizar things happen! Really!

Yesterday evening! Mum and dad were invited for dinner at the place of mum’s friend. We arrive! Jesus, what a house! So big! Even the big boxes in the special park and the big buildings near that park are little if you see this building. (If you don’t remember: look here: https://everydayanairedale.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/a-big-day-real-big/ ) Mum says: no pics, it’s too dark!

What does my mum say? I have to be a good girl because we go to the 16th floor? What’s that? 16th floor? We enter a very small room, have seen that before, oh, yes, this lady knows some things! Doors close and up we go! That takes a long time! Is it finished? Not Yet? Ieeeieeegrrrwaf!

Kita, shut up! Be a good girl, I said!

Ouf, the doors open! And there is mum’s friend! We go in and the talking and eating (!)of the mums and dads starts! I’m a good girl, I get a treat and there’s a lot of chew-work to do… 😉 I even get a drink! 😉 Several drinks!

But I can not play with the funny carpet! i kept an eye on it almost all the time. This dinner takes time: they are cooking at the table! Tell me, this is bizar, no? But the mums and dads enjoy it! This goes on and on… pfff, I’ll take a nap! 🙂