Even though I am a cat person, I like Louloup a lot.
He's so handsome.
And he thinks, I can see he thinks.
Thank you for posting this picture of him.
I just licked him on the other cheek

Même si je suis un chat
I'm NOT a cat, Google Translate!
j'aime beaucoup Louloup.
Il est si beau.
Et il pense, je vois qu'il pense.
Merci d'avoir posté cette photo de lui.
Vous venez de le lécher sur l'autre joue

Good Morning Base Campers!
The bad news

Sorry Little Mermaid, no habla Español.

The good news
NAP2614 has told me he's better than he has been for quite some time. Furthermore he has several members of his family who know Spanish. If he gets well enough to trek, I hope he may bring an interpreter.

My psycho cat on the other hand doesn't want more than to be fed and held/rubbed/brushed for about 30 minutes then he's had enough of his humans.

I saw a glimpse of your psycho cat – aren’t they all?
You told me her weight. I insist on using ’she’ because that’s what they taught me in school.
’You say she about a cat regardless of her gender’.
Suits me fine.
Feline is feminine.
Even those big and heavy ones. Well, if you get a chance one day, I would like to see a good picture of Psycho Cat here acpartsman. She can compete with Louloup, and we'll turn this thread into a zoo.
< she weighs almost as much as Louloup>

Yesterday I received a letter – yes, as close to a letter you'll get these days as an attachment to an e-mail – from the Environmental and Foods Ministry. The civil servant who finally replied to my 1½ months old inquiry and one reminder three weeks ago as to why we have to have all this salt in processed foods when it is not good for us wrote thusly to me:

Environmentalandfoodsminister Esben Lunde Larsen has asked us to thank you for your inquiry and reply to it and regret his delay in doing so.
WOW!
I’m no fan of his, and he’s fishing for voters, but I really liked the civil servant’s phrasing. Very clever.
It’s a lie, but it plays well even to me.
They work on having the salt contents in processed food reduced, the Environmentalandfoods minister let me know through his ghost writer and he claims they already gained some ground nationally and EUally. Bread, cereals and some meat and fish products now comply with the stipulations of the ’Keyhole badge’ and the ’Whole grain badge’.
Well, I know they should be better nutritionwise, and I look for these visual guides and try to read the itty-bitty declarations of contents, but low in salt???
To me it means that they have been really high in salt before any reduction.

I don’t know why I started to spoil you this way, giving you the Grand Tour of Hungary and Colorado.
Well, yes, I went to great lengths to secure acpartsman as a Base Camper, and because I wanted to share my trips with all of you.
But Mexico … I have nothing to share
Brace yourselves. I have not even left the Alameda Central park yet.
Perhaps it’s all right to study that one in detail for 10 days
Trees, birds, people, dogs, butterflies, flowers, rain, fountains …
acpartsman will you still be a Base Camper if I let you down?

I'm a base camper for the duration. Can't imagine how you would ever let me down. Yes, I'll bring Dave with me, we've known each other since high school, don't get to do things together as much as we once did but that's life.

I'll try to post a pic of Neko for everyone to see. You say "her", ironically he was supposed to female and was the runt of the litter, now he's twice the size or more than his siblings.

Little Mermaid.

Bien sûr qu'il pense, la dernière fois que j'ai compté, je crois que c'est 42 mots qu'il connaît maintenant. Plus toute sa subtilité, qu'il sait si il doit rester à sa place, ou si il peut venir 'gratter son câlin', juste à notre humeur. Quand c'est le moment de jouer et faire 'le fou', et quand 'bébé y dort' (chez les voisins du dessus).
Il a même compris, que les PC et les câbles, il ne doit pas s'approcher. Quand un de ses jouets va dessus, il s'arrête à 20 cm environ, puis me regarde, pour demander la permission de le ramasser (tout doucement).

Comme la plupart des chiens qui ont été abandonnés, une fois qu'ils ont retrouvé leur équilibre, on peut leur demander (presque) tout ce qu'on veut.
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Of course he thinks, the last time I counted, I think it's 42 words he knows now. Plus all his subtlety, whether he knows if he should stay in his place, or if he can come 'scratch his hug', just to our mood. When it's time to play and 'go crazy', and when 'baby sleeps' (at the top neighbors).
He even understood, that PCs and cables, he must not approach. When one of his toys goes on, he stops at about 20 cm, then looks at me, to ask permission to pick it up (very slowly).

Like most dogs that have been abandoned, once they have found their balance, we can ask them (almost) anything we want.


acpartsman.

Les Bergers sont aussi mes chiens préférés, par leur beauté, et leur intelligence. D'ailleurs, quand j'ai récupéré mon Louloup, je pensais que c'était comme un Berger Allemand, sauf qu'ils n'avaient pas la même robe. Alors que le Malinois, c'est beaucoup plus speed, ça n'a pas tous les jours été facile, quand je l'ai récupéré. Surtout avec son passé.

Mais je suis d'autant plus content, de maintenant pouvoir montrer des photos de lui, où il est beau. (Que je suis un peu fier, faut bien dire ... Ces Maudits Français)
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The Shepherds are also my favorite dogs, by their beauty, and their intelligence. By the way, when I picked up my Louloup, I thought it was like a German Shepherd, except they did not have the same dress. While the Malinois is much more speed, it was not easy every day, when I recovered. Especially with his past.

But I'm all the happier now to be able to show pictures of him, where he is handsome. (That I'm a little proud, must say ... These cursed French ? Don't Know how to translate)


NB: La nouvelle photo arrive ici dès que j'ai vu avec Saphir12 qu'elle s'occupe de redimensionner recadrer, que sinon l'original va tout déformer le forum ...
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NB: The new photo arrives here as soon as I saw with Saphir12 that it takes care to resize crop, that otherwise the original will distort the forum ...

Voilà la nouvelle photo en question. Il sait prendre la pose quand on le prend en photo, une vrai star ce Louloup
Little Mermaid, rivaliser avec Louloup, c'est absolument impossible.
Mais il n'est pas non plus jaloux et exclusif, heureusement. Il y a quelques personnes qu'il aime plus que d'autres, et qui peuvent entrer dans le cercle très fermé de ce qu'il considère comme sa famille.
Mais comme toute star, il vient rappeler régulièrement qu'il est là et qu'il ne faut pas oublier de le câliner ^^

That's the new picture in question. He knows how to pose when we take a picture, a real star this Louloup
Little Mermaid, compete with Louloup, it's absolutely impossible.
But he isn't jealous and exclusive either, fortunately. There are some people he loves more than others who can enter the very closed circle of what he considers his family.
But like any star, he comes regularly reminds that he's there and we must not forget to cuddle him ^^