Hello, Gerstuhl here!
Paula, Daniel, Piffy, and I went on a walk with a couple of prospective puppy buyers today. I think I charmed them, because they wanted to be the family of one of my pups. This is good, they were nice people. I believe this will be fine.
Paula cooles lasagne for dinner. Gerstuhl got to be around, when Paula and Daniel eat, and got to taste some lasagne. Paula cooks great lasagne. Gerstuhl was there, because she had her surgery earlier this week. I guess you should have some advantage from being a convalesent.
Paula and Daniel have talked about my granddaughter. They have started to make plans to let her live here by us.
This is good. My granddaughter will ensure the succession. This is the succession of the female line from my grandmother Sunni onwards, and the succession of bloggers in Daily Hailey, this daily blog started by my mother Hailey. We just have to hope the female line continues and that my granddaughter is interested in writing the blog when I cannot do it anymore.
The future is full of opportunities.
Daniel has made another road trip over the last two days. I do not envy him. Road trips take their toll.
Life is better when everyone is at home, accounted for. Now that Daniel is home again, we can take it more easy. I like this.
My grandpups are one day old today. I will not have the opportunity to take part in their upbringing. Gerstuhl went through a harsh ordeal yesterday with a Caesarian and emergency removal of her uterus. She could not take care of her pups. Fortunately, Paula and Daniel have good friends who are also Shiba breeders and who had a bitch who gave birth to pups on the very same day. This bitch took on Gerstuhl’s pups as her own.
If you are a female dog, ”bitch” is a badge of honour.
I would like to thank this foster mother. Perhaps I will, some day.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
My pups would not come out. We went to a nearby animal hospital and they performed a Caesarian on me. The wounds hurt.
The pups are doing fine. As Mum says: this is the main thing.
There are days when you want to be confidential with what has happened. It may be something really important in your life, but also something you want to keep to yourself. On days like this, I write about other things in this daily blog. I will come back and tell you about what has happened today. It is not tragic, but something I want to keep confidential for a little while longer. Stay tuned!
Gerstuhl has still showed no signs of begetting her pups.
I cannot wait to become a grandmother.
Daniel is not home this weekend. Paula is, but not Daniel. He is representing our home county at the highest council for the Swedish Kennel Club. This council takes place every second year. I do not knowif it has a true name in English, so I just call it highest council. We are proud that Daniel is there. I hope he votes wisely.
Some mornings, we take walks that are a little shorter than usual. I enjoy the narrower walkway through the forrest for these walks, so when I get to decide, I chose this way. This is what I did this morning. The other dogs do not really care. I think Daniel likes the ordinary, little longer walk the best, but he allows me to decide once in a while. I enjoy this, so these days I am on a better mode. Life can be better through small means like this.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
Paula, Daniel, and I went to the veterinary clinic today. With the help of x ray examination of my tummy, we got confirmed that I expect two pups.
I have wondered what my pups will be like for a long time. After the x ray result today, I am even more curious.
Mum has told me having pups is great. Then she joked and said that this was with the exception of me. We can joke with one another in this way. This is fun.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
This evening, I was in the kitchen, when suddenly, everybody else were in the living room and the gate between the kitchen and the living room was closed. Paula asked Daniel where I was. He could just say that he had forgot to take me along, as he went from the kitchen to the living room.
I guess it was all Daniel’s fault. I am not to blame for not passing before the gate was closed.
Apart from this incident, it is really nice to be here at Aangenaam.
Paula made her famous lasagne for dinner today. There was more meat sauce than necessary, so she poured this in the dog food bowls. We got this for food. You can hardly imagine anything better to eat. I do not even believe that pure, fresh meat is tastier than Paula’s meat sauce. Paula is such a great cook.
Paula and Daniel have nerver had any fixad time for when they give us food. Most of the time, I do not mind. Today, however, it was a little too late for my taste. On the other paw, we got minced meat and spaghetti in the food. This really made up for the late time. The day, thus, turned out nicely. I liked it.
Paula and Daniel brought otur Chihuahua friends Piffy and Peppe on a long walk. They walked over to Paula’s sister Mia and back. This is no distance for a Shiba. For a Chihuahua, with their shorter legs, especially for the pup Peppe, it was quite a distance. Peppe was really tired when they came back.
It would have been a nice walk to join, but I also liked to stay at home and relax. It was a good day.
A Vietnamese coupe who were hospitalised due to covid-19 had their dogs killed by the authorities. Apparently, the authorities were affraid the dogs would spread the disease. The killing has caused controversy, in part because the coupe did not get to now about it until after the fact. I am so sorry to read about this. Unnecessary killings of dogs must be among the worst things authorities can do.
It is Friday night, and we celebrate the start of the weekend. The weekend gives is freedom, because there is no work for our humans, so they are at home more. Then we do not have to guard the house in the same way as other days. Freedom is good.
There has been an election among the members of the political party where Daniel is a member. (Paula is also a member.) In the election for the candidates to the city council, Daniel came fourth. He was happy for this result. I am as well, for his sake.
We have yet to see the result for the Swedish parliament and the regional election.
Sweden plats Greece tonight in the European qualification games for the FIFA World Cup of football next year. Sweden won, and sent up to the top of the group. This was a nice result. It is especially nice, since Spain is also in the same group. We can hope Sweden will end in this position in the group and go directly to the World Cup. We would like this here at Aangenaam.
Paula gave us food today. Most days, Daniel give us food. When Paula does it, the routine is slightly different. This is good, life should not be the same every day. Paula did it great, there was just a significant difference that appealed to me. Life is good, when it is not the same every day.
Hello, Gertrud here!
Now that I am back at Aangenaam, I have made new friends. There are some Chihuahuas living here now. They are small and speedy, and nice to be around. I always like to get new friends. Life here is good.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
I am back at kennel Aangenaam. This is where I will get the pups I am expecting to get late in October or so.
It is nice coming back. I was born and raised here, so this is where the best pups are produced. My pups will, thus, be the very best of pups.
Friday afternoons are often great. They are the start of the weekend, when the humans take it easier, and we dogs can do the same.
This Friday afternoon was better than usual. Daniel opened up a package of minced meat and portioned it out among us dogs. This is always great. I wish we could always get minced meat on Friday afternoons.
A hobby of minne is chewing on togs, plasticitet bottles, and other chewy things. This is a nice passtime. It also results in nicely formed stuff.
This evening, Piffy had one of those plastic things I enjoy chewing upon. I waited patiently. As soon as Piffy left the thing, I grabbed it. Life then got more relaxing. Life is good in these instances.
Today I discovered that my blog entry for the day before yesterday was still not published. I do not know why.
I made sure this blog entry was published today. At least, it gave me something to write about for the blog today. There can be some positive things with badly published blog entries anyway.
There is a general election in Sweden next autumn. Daniel was away on a campaign tonight. I think it is too early. Daniel says you can never be too early, people need to be reminded throughout the election cycle. He may be right. I hope he will not be away on campaigns too many times long before the election, nevertheless.
The bad thing about autumn is that it is almost always damp air and wet ground. It rains quite often, it is seldom sunny, and the water does not evaporate as in the summer or freeze as in the winter. It has not been rain all day today, but it has still been wet and damp all around. I do like many things about autumn, but not this dampness and wetness. Life is good anyway.
New evidence have suggested humans were in America as early as 23,000 or 22,000 years ago.
There is no evidence of dogs, however. Dogs were with humans in Eurasia this long ago, so they could easily have been with humans in America as well. In the future, such evidence may emerge. I hope it will.
