Ginger Speaks

I may be stating the obvious but being a dog, my writing skills are not quite up to par with what you might be acustom to. My verbal skills are mostly oriented towards learning short verbal cues for cute tricks. With that said I'd like to bring you up to date on my time here in Belgium since I know that all you usually hear about is my humans' travel adventures.

Ok, so the first thing is that I have a few best friends here. My best, best friend is Chili. The picture we've included is a bit blurred but then again, they all are because she's one of those dogs that just moves all the time. She won't stand still for anything, including really good treats. Ya gotta love her and I do!

Second of all, when my humans are traveling, I get to go on my own vacation. My other best, best friends are Bart and Sonia. I stay with them and another 20 dogs or so. We play in a big field and then after working up a good sweat, we dunk our bellies in the cool water of the pond. I've met more nice dogs on my vacations!

Then my humans have had me working. I presume it is pay for my food but I don't know anything about paying so it is just a guess. I've been spending time with two really nice kids who before meeting me, didn't like dogs. I'm helping them change their ideas about us dogs.

They throw the ball for me and I bring it back. It seems to be a pretty good arrangement! The picture below looks a little scary but I'm just happy to have someone to play with! Having two middle-aged humans is a little trying for a high-energy dog like me!

And then I've been teaching another girl how to train me. I think I'm doing pretty well from the looks of this picture. She's really nice and actually, I think we've taught each other a lot.

And then we've had some dogs come visit our house over the past two years. I get put in my crate in the upstairs but I expect my human is doing something called "obedience training" with them- whatever that is. I've also been warned that we might temporarily have a puppy come live with us to do something called "Hearing Dog Training". God only knows what that might be.

My hobbies here in Belgium include: Chasing the neighborhood cat named Apollo, chasing the rabbits in the yard, chasing the squirrels in the yard and forest, chasing birds in the forest, chasing deer in the forest, chasing people trying to retrieve their golf balls out of our yard. Get it? Chasing!

Well that pretty much sums it up!
Your friend,
Ginger Girl