This is much more a story about the country mouse that goes to the Big Apple and thought he owned the place ......what a guy!
Once again, Kaiser floored me. His attitude throughout the whole experience was just awesome.

Kaiser was a 2 year old country boy that lived out in the middle of the woods, stayed down at the creek “fishing” most of the day, and off to the shows on the weekends (which is one of his most favorite things to do).

Kaiser enjoyed his trip only because “Aunt Joanne”, his most favorite person in the whole wide world came along and he was the only dog in the van and got everyone’s undivided attention. We rolled into NYC, which was totally new to all of us, and I must say, it was a pretty intimidating place. It’s amazing we found the Hotel because my map reader (Joanne) was hanging out the window taking pictures of everything. I finally dragged her back in when she started taking drive by pictures of the hookers and their (a hum) associates. Anyway, we got to the hotel, parked out front, and some guy from the hotel was going to park my van for me, and I had to unload Kaiser and all my stuff right there in the middle of the street across from Carnegie Hall!!! The traffic, hustle and bustle of cars and people took me back a step, but not Kaiser. I unloaded him in the middle of the street, he got out, looked around, as was immediately at home. Didn’t phase him one bit. The excitement seemed to fill him and he was more than happy to see so many new faces to say “hi” to.

Kaiser waltzed right in to the plush main lobby of the Hotel and made several new friends while I checked in. The elevator was a new experience for him, but Kaiser went right in. When we started moving, he figured if this ride is anything like Mom’s driving, the best position to be in is down, so he calmly did. Smart Boy.

We unpacked, ate dinner and it was time for Kaiser to go out for his last potty break for the night. Going down the elevator, I’m trying to think where in the world would be the best place to take Kaiser for this. When we got down to the main lobby, I figured we’d go out the side door where there might not be as many people as out front (which was a madhouse). The side door went to this dimly lit side alley with dark cubbyholes everywhere. This was NOT a good place to be. At least I had a big black dog with me. I’ve never needed kaiser before like this, and out of the blue, Kaiser turns into this “on guard” animal at the end of my leash. He walked out a little ahead of me, and “watched” everything like he never did before. Not aggressively, but just really watching like a hawk. Wow, this was like having a body guard. This was a new attitude I hadn’t seen before, but I sure did appreciate the fact that I had Kaiser with me, and he was ready to stand between me and any danger. What a guy. (Whew)

The next morning was the big day. Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and I was handling Kaiser myself. What a thrill. Joanne and I packed up everything we needed for the big day, and off we went to the show, with a quick pit stop in the lobby of the hotel. Kaiser looked good. He had many people come up to him saying “what a beautiful dog”, and Kaiser was sucking it all in.

Across the room, was a beautiful woman dressed in a beaded dress wearing more diamonds than I’ll ever see in a lifetime, and a beaver coat. She gave Kaiser a big smile, as he was staring at her, and once again I hear “what a beautiful dog! Can I pet him?” My usual response, “Sure, he loves to say Hi!”. Well, Kaiser was staring at this woman because of that coat! He’d followed beaver back home down in the creek, and he knew a beaver when he saw one, but this one was huge, and it swallowed a woman! He approached her as usual, because after all, there was a woman in front of him smiling at him, but this beaver thing had to be looked into. He went right up to her, she started petting him, and Kaiser’s nose got the best of him checking out that beaver, and up her dress he went with his head (you know where this is going). The lady started dancing away from Kaiser who at this point had gone as far up her dress as he could go (if you get my drift), and he figured he might as well keep on going up and give her a big kiss in the face. Apparently he figured all this dancing must mean she was thrilled to see him!! Kaiser had now exposed this woman for all the world to see. I didn’t know whether to be embarrassed, or to laugh myself to death. Good boy, Kai. (teehee)

KAISER AND THE SEMI TRUCK AND MY GUARDIAN ANGEL

It was a cold and snowy Saturday morning and we were on our way to a dog show heading south on route 71, a 4 lane highway. Kaiser was riding on the couch in the back of my van taking a snooze as we had been on the road an hour already. Suddenly, the engine quits. My power steering is gone, and my van begins to fishtail on the snow covered road. The van swung back and forth more and more until it went into a full spin. We made three complete 360 degree spins before we finally came to a stop. I was trembling as I turned to see if my Kaiser was ok in the back seat. Thankfully, he was still laying there but giving me dirty looks about my driving.

Quickly looking over my situation, I saw that the front of my van was on the brim of the road, but my rear was sticking out into the right lane. I had to get off the road before someone hit me. I tried the engine, and it was dead. Wouldn’t start at all.

Suddenly, there was a knock on my window. It was a man who had stopped to help. He asked me if we both were ok, and I said we were. He said “well, if that’s the case, we need to get you off this road first of all, and then we’ll see about getting your van started. But first, I want you to come see your skid marks and how close you came to going over the 50 foot embankment”. As I got out to go look, I noticed his huge semi rig with it’s emergency lights on parked in the right hand lane about 50 feet behind my van. He said he parked behind me because people could see his truck lights better, and if they are going to hit anything, let them hit his truck and not me.

After several futile tries trying to get my van started, my rescuer offered to give me a lift about a mile down the road to the next exit to call for help. I was ever so grateful, but I wouldn’t leave Kaiser alone by the side of the road. He said he loved big dogs, and go ahead and bring him along. I was so happy he agreed to give the two of us a ride, it didn’t dawn on me the problem I was to face in getting a 120 lb. dog up, over my head, into the front cab of a semi truck!

Kaiser must have thought I was nuts, but he’s always trusted me, and allowed me to tell him how to navigate this maneuver without coming down on my head. I put his front feet up as high as I could get them, then made a sling with my hands under his rump, and heave ho! Up he went onto the passengers seat and right into the back to a nice comfy bed, and immediately laid down. The truck driver yelled “get that dog out of my bed”! I pulled Kaiser up in between the two seats, and held his head and chest away from the gear shift, telling him not to move, or this guy won’t be able to drive. I don’t know how Kaiser ever fit in between those two seats, but he sat there, motionless seeming to understand the situation.

We pulled into the truck stop about a mile down the road. The driver told me dogs weren’t allowed in the truck stop, and I could just tie him up outside the building while I called AAA. Yea, right, I didn’t think so. I marched right in the door and explained the situation to the gal behind the counter. Luckily, she was a dog lover, and told me he could stay inside with me until help arrived.

The truck stop was crowded with people (mostly truck drivers), and Kaiser went into high gear socializing with everyone. Being the only dog there, he was thrilled to have all these people to himself to say hi to. He was in his glory. All these people to himself. In no time, he had a large crowd of people around him, patting him, giving him pieces of their morning doughnuts....A pure picture of bliss for Kaiser.

When it came time to go, my rescuer was no where to be found. I never got a chance to say good bye and tell him what a hero he was that day. I’ll never know who that man was that saved me that day, but I’ll always be grateful, and I’ll never forget him.

HOPKINS AIRPORT, ESCALATORS AND PEOPLE MOVERS, OH MY!

There was a time that a gal out West wanted to breed her girl to Kaiser, and we planned to collect him and send the collection “fresh extended”. At the same time, another gal from out East wanted to do the same thing, same plan. Here at home, I had planned to breed Kaiser to my beautiful girl, Ch. Hausewatcher’s Gabby Gal, Am/Can. CD. Murphy’s law said that all three would need to be bred on the same day. I took Kaiser in to my Vet early in the morning, and we collected him. We split the collection, and boxed both of them up, one going West, one going East. Usually, the office had a “runner” that for a fee would take the collection to the airport for you, but being so early in the morning, no runners were available, and it was up to me to get the boxes to the freight area at the airport. I would have brought some help if I had known this before hand, so now, I had to put my “Wonder Woman” hat on, and do it all by myself.

When I got to the airport, it dawned on me that there was no way I was going to leave Kaiser in my van in the Cleveland Hopkins Airport parking lot. Someone might steel him or my van with him in it, and no way was I going to let anything like that happen to my boy, so I decided to take him with me.

With purse over my shoulder, the two boxes containing the collections strung together in one hand, and Kaiser in the other, off we went. It’s a loooooooong walk to the freight area, and the airport provides two sets of “people walkers” which if you’ve never experienced one, it’s a long conveyer belt which you just stand on, and it moves you much faster than if you’re just walking the long corridor. I looked at it, then looked at Kai, and said “come on boy, you can do this” Kaiser looked at me and said ‘But Mom, the floor is moving, are you nuts?” I told him it was safe, and no big deal, and with a little pop on his leash, he went on it. I told him to sit, which he did, and off we went. Now, this is not the average thing people see at the airport. A dog sitting on a people walker going for the ride. They stared at me with my hands full of two boxes in one hand, and Kai in the other. Kai, being one to love having people look at him, sat there proud as he could be of himself, puffing his chest out, saying “Yes, I do look good sitting here, don’t I?”

Well, the ride came to an end, and off we went for the next “people walker” He hopped on without me saying a word to him, automatically sat down next to me, and got ready for more people to look at him with big smiles on their faces. he was in 7th heaven. After that ride was over, we walked a while longer, and came to two sets of escalators, both being two stories high. I thought, how in the world am I going to get him on that thing? I knew Kaiser would do just about anything I asked him to do, but this was a stretch to ask, even for him. With as much confidence as I could muster, I said “come on Kai, you can do this too”. Kaiser said “But Mom, the stairs are moving, and we don’t have any at home, and are you completely out of your mind?????” Being the wonderful boy that he is, and having all the faith in the world in me, Kaiser tried it. He put a foot on the moving stairs, and gave it a try. When his foot was being taken up those stairs, he said “No way Mom, you’ve really lost it this time. I can’t fit on that thing. What do I do if I decide to get on it anyway? Do I sit? Stand? Lay down? No room for that Mom!” Boy, was I in a pickle now. I told Kaiser “You’ve got to do it, you can do it! Lets go, NOW!” Kai placed his feet on the first step, and let it carry him up a bit. When his body couldn’t stretch any more, he brought his back feet up to the step beneath. I told him “stand, stay” which he was glad to hear, because he really needed to know how to ride this thing. I was concerned about his toes getting caught, and when we reached the top, I said “Jump!” he bounded off that escalator beautifully. What a guy! I expected applause from the people around me, but didn’t get any, so I gave myself a couple of invisible pats on the back for that escapade.

We weren’t done yet. One more flight of escalators to go. When we reached the second set, I didn’t have to tell him how to ride it again, he just got on and stood there. Now, there was another set of escalators going down right beside us. Kaiser was beaming with pride as he watched the surprised look on peoples faces watching this big black dog riding up the escalator

We made it to the freight area right on time. When I got there, the lady behind the desk said “How did you get that big dog all the way up here? The steps?” With a blank look on my face, I said “The steps?” She said yea, the steps right down that hallway over there”. I told her no, I didn’t know about them and we took the people walker and the escalator. She said “That dog went up the escalators? Both of them? How did you do that? I told her with a big smile on my face “This is my boy, Kaiser. He will do anything I ask him to do

We took the staircase going home

As a footnote, the Gal’s bitch out East had 8 pups in her litter, the Gal’s bitch out West had 11 puppies in her litter, and Gabby had 6 puppies in her litter.

Kaiser, you never cease to amaze me! Back to top