adoption

We came all the way to Australia to adopt an Afrikaans speaking dog named Griet!  Yes, you read correctly.  Griet has joined our family by door to door courier from Darwin.  Hannalie and Dirk are heading off to the US for a three year contract and "arme Griet" is 8 years old and probably wouldn't survive the repatriation quarantine for six months at the age of 11.  The result is that we now have a cross Maltese/Jack Russell and goodness knows what else in our home.  The up side is that Hannalie's teenagers will visit us (and her) in Uni vacs AND there is now another female in our home and the boys are so delighted with her.  She is house trained and very cute.  She is a real house dog who likes her tummy scratched and lots of cuddles.  She has an affinity for ham or salami and likes to be near us.  I think she is a bit shell shocked at her sudden change of scenery and is doing a bit of moping and pining but that will all soon change when she realises what fun these three boys can be.  She was not too happy to pose for the camera in her grumpy mood so these pics are all I have for now.

I told the boys that we are getting a dog that only speaks Afrikaans and after the first day Hugo innocently asked:  "So when is she going to speak?  You said she can speak Afrikaans!"  Adam has been a real sweetheart trying to talk Afrikaans to her and asking me for various translations.  She seems to be very intelligent so we will just have to add linguistics to her many talents as she starts to understand us!