When you read this, I will probably already be in Germany with Anneliese. We will have gone through the airport craziness and then flown over 3500 miles to Berlin! We’re ready!
The last few days Anneliese has been such a great little traveler, that I am hoping that this BIG trip will have gone okay. As soon as I get to a computer, I will write and send pictures!
Meanwhile be sure and leave a comment so I know I am not talking to myself! LOL!
Today I realized that the world had gone totally mad.
You see, I took Anneliese to our local, Board Certified Veterinarian for her Health Exam. Guess what? He’s not good enough to tell if Anneliese is a healthy dog. No, I had to go to a State Veterinarian to have Anneliese examed. Not only that, but my poor baby had to be treated for worms she doesn’t have, be microchipped, even though she already has a tattoo, and get treated for ticks, even though it’s not tick season.
You would think that this would be enough for the E.U., but no, they want more. Friday I must take Anneliese to a Ferderal Veterinarian so he can look at her fill out another paper, put his seal on it and send her off.
Now first of all I have to say that I take VERY good care of my dogs. My Vet knows them, gives them all injections and his license should be enough to give Anneliese traveling papers. It would have cost me $45.00.
But then I saw the State Veterinarian and had to get all those things done to the tune of $300.00 and I am actually afraid of what tomorrow will bring with the Federal Vet.
Something tells me that we have
TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT and TOO MANY REGULATIONS!!!!
Do you suppose that in this day and age when we average poeple are struggling with our finances and so is our government, that perhaps we need to cut some of these redundant governmental programs?
Just a thought.
After all, doesn’t this dog look healthy?
I’ve been packing my suitcase. It’s the size that I can carry on along with Miss Anneliese. After spending several hours packing and repacking I have decided, it is simply not big enough!
In this day of baggage limits I find that a normal person cannot pack for a trip within the “rules”. I finally got out my packable space bags and put everything in those. Now I have my outfits in them with the hopes that they don’t pop mid-air. Should that occur, I’m totally screwed! Imagine the mess my 15 year old suitcase will be!
Yeah, my suitcase is 15 years old. It is also nothing very special either. One day I was in K-Mart and I saw this suitcase with a nice print on it. It cost me all of $12.99! And it has a handle and wheels, which after 15 years of being brutalized by travel, still work. I love this suitcase and when it finally falls apart, I will be extremely sad.
I also packed Anneliese’s little soft sided carrier. The back has a pocket for her things and I put in her little panties, her pads and some bones and crunchies. Now Arnie sits next to the bag looking longingly at the back pocket!
I took Anneliese to Weight Watchers on Wednesday. I wanted to desensitize her to large, noisy crowds. Well, she did just great! In fact she only barked once, never shook and seemed to enjoy the activity around her. Her little panties were a real hit!
Well, back to packing and organizing. Something I simply am not good at. Oh well, somehow we’ll make it over and hopefully so will my clothes.
I spent most of the day doing laundry, making appointments and confirming reservations for my trip to Berlin with Anneliese. I’ll be leaving on the 14th and getting back 2 weeks later.
The best part for me will be the time I get to spend with my friend, Uschi. It’s been nearly 5 years since we have seen each other and that is just too long!
I will be posting each day, so I can bring you all with me. I’m taking the new little camera that I bought Hubby for Christmas, and so far have found that I use it far more than he has. I just love my (his) little mini Cannon camera!
Besides making my travel plans today I was scheduled for a dental visit. I needed to have an old filling replaced. There were three things that depressed me about this. First, I hate going to the dentist. I get such anxiety attacks! And second, my mouth hurts like heck tonight after having the old filling drilled out and the new one put in. And lastly, I’m depressed because I am old enough to have a filling that actually needs to be replaced because it is old!
I came home and was all set to make dinner, but my rotisserie oven has bitten the dust! Shoot! I love that thing!
Then the ultimate, I couldn’t eat dinner because my mouth hurt!
Now I’ll spend the next few days finishing up the preparations for the journey. Anneliese goes in for her physical on Thursday and will be all cleared to go, I am sure.
Break out the suit cases!
Yahoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
We leave on Friday!!!!
I’ve been sort of quiet today after waking up with a silly old winter cold. You know, the kind that makes you have chills, sneeze a ton and feel all filled up. My answer to this was to stay in my pajamas until 10:30 this morning and then take the day off. I stayed in my chair reading things on the computer, cuddled with various dackels, and playing Scrabble.
I’ve also been watching and checking Anneliese for any sign that she is going into heat. I’m sure she is sick to death of me coming at her with a Kleenex to check her out! So far, nothing!
I have gotten all my documentation put together for Anneliese’s little rendezvous. And once she does go into heat, she must be taken in to our Veterinarian’s for an International Health Exam. They know all about it, and are on standby.
Tomorrow I will start setting aside clothes to pack for myself. I also have to go to the dentist to have a filling replaced.
Don’t even get me started on how much I detest going to the dentist. It’s a childhood thing. I just get completely unglued, even though I like my dentist and he is very gentle.
Fear not, gentle readers, I shall let you all know the moment Anneliese goes into heat. Then the fun begins.
We take Anneliese off to Germany to meet her husband!
I spent part of Friday doing errands with Anneliese by my side. All I have to do now is ask her if she wants to go for a ride and she is at the door with her tail wagging!
I’ve been taking her along with me as I go around the town, to the Post Office, the Bank, etc. getting her ready for our trip. At first she was nervous and scared, but now she has developed self confidence and does very well.
So, we went around and did our errands before returning home. During our car trip I kept talking to her and encouraging her to go into heat! I have learned that Anneliese is a stubborn little Miss. She will go into heat when she feels like it!
I was looking at the calendar from the last two years and discovered that she goes into heat every 8 months. That is NOW!
So, I have my passport ready and will start thinking about the clothes I will pack for me. All I need for my girl is her cute little panties! I bet Isegrim will really fall for her when he sees those panties!!!
(This picture was taken during her last heat)
Don’t you think she looks cute?
Today was a pamper me day. I got my hair trimmed and my roots restored to their youthful honey brown, all the while my hands were massaged and my finger nails done. Ah yes, true wonderful pampering!
I think everyone needs pampering. I mean lets face it, everywhere you go, everyone you meet can tell you a story of someone they know who is going through a hard time, or knows someone who is.
So it’s imperative to just step back and get a little pampering once in a while, and today was my day.
Now I am set totally for my trip to Berlin! Anneliese can finally stop wasting time and just go into heat. I’m ready. I look fabulous and I’m ready to take on Germany!
I also am so excited about seeing Uschi and spending some time with her. It’s been nearly 5 years since we have been together. It’s time!!!
I’m not really looking forward to traveling alone with Anneliese, but then, Hubby needs to be here to be with our other three dogs and to take care of himself. I’ve been cooking up a storm making meals for him so he doesn’t have to go out for dinner too many times while I am away.
Anneliese
So let me tell you. I have found a handsome husband for Anneliese named Isegrim. You can go here to see him at The site of the Vom Bruchsee Kennel.
He is really a handsome boy, (On the side bar of the Vom Bruchsee Kennel click on Deckrüden and you will see a nice face picture of Isegrim) and I am so excited about this mating. I think the pups will be fantastic!
Let’s just hope that Anneliese will be a nice girl and falls hopelessly in love with Isegrim!
Last night when we got home, Arnie was paying attention to Anneliese a little too much. She is not in heat, but in sort of a pre-heat. What this means is that Anneliese is putting out some sort of doggy phemerones that only Arnie can pick up. He is letting me know that Anneliese is going to go into heat soon.
Yippee!!!
So now I have a few things to do. I need to make tentative arrangements with the airline, find out exactly how much it will cost to fly Anneliese over, and make sure I bring down her soft-sided carrier. I want her to get used to being in it. Even if it is just for a nap.
I need to think about what clothing to pack and how I can travel as lightly as possible. Carrying a suitcase and a sixteen pound dog will be a challenge.
Naturally I plan to keep blogging all the while that I am in Germany. Perhaps I will do a little travel piece. As well as news of sex and the single dackel! lol!
Here is another post about my dackels.
It started this morning when I went into my bedroom to wake Hubby. I’d gotten up about an hour before, but I needed to shower and dress for an appointment, so I went in to wake him and say good morning.
As I walked in and pulled up the shade, what did I see?
Yes the adorable Miss Greta, curled up underneath the covers with her Daddy! I stopped and stroked her and talked to her, and I could feel her tail wagging. Greta can be the sweetest little Angel. When she wants to be! lol! In the mornings, when the puppies have gotten up and she is alone in bed with her Daddy, she WANTS to be.
Later in the morning we were having a tough time with the puppies. They kept sitting up on the back of the sofa barking at the birds.
Eventually I had to pull the shades because the barking was so loud. I truly think it is a plot by those wild birds to drive the dackels insane. Or perhaps the plan is to drive me insane, because the barking really drives me up the wall!
Later in the afternoon the temperatures began dropping. Anneliese was chilled and shaking, so I brought out her little doggy sweater. She loves the sweater!
She wore it around the house, snapped at Arnie when he got to close to it, and just kept it on. She stretched out on the carpet, snuggled in the chair next to me and eventually wanted to go outside.
So I let her out and I watched. My crazy dackel ran through a foot of snow with a joy, seen only when observing little kids playing in the snow, after school has been called off! She ran and ran and eventually I called her in. The sweater was totally covered with snowballs! I lifted it off her and hung it to dry. And Anneliese climbed up in the chair next to me and fell asleep.
Ah, it sure is a dog’s life, isn’t it?