Dieser Abschied fiel uns ganz besonders schwer.....unser „Beatle/American Boy“ und nun „Zeus“ ist am 20.10. über den großen Teich geflogen. Wir haben ihn am frühen Morgen in Amsterdam bei „Zoologistics“ abgegeben. Diese Firma ist auf den Export von Tieren vom Flughafen Schiphol spezialisiert und hat ihn bis zum Abflug begleitet. Nochmal in seine vertrauensvollen Augen zu schauen bevor wir ihn verlassen mussten hat uns fast das Herz gebrochen. Aber er war total relaxed und wir denken vor allem weil Romy, unsere Tierkommunikatorin (Liebe Birgit, Ja Khufu (Zeus) ist wirklich ein mutiger kleiner Kerl und er ist sich seiner Kraft und seiner Stärke schon etwas bewusst. Eine wirklich grosse Aufgabe erwartet ihn. Alles Liebe Romy) ihn auf diese Reise vorbereitet und ihn auf dem Flug und bis ins neue Zuhause begleitet hat, natürlich mit der Unterstützung vom Mama Juno :-)
Wir haben voller Anspannung seinen Flug im Internet begleitet und die Zeit von der Landung bis zum ersehnten Anruf der neuen Besitzer fühlte sich viel zu lang an. Alles in allem war er mehr als 20 Stunden unterwegs, aber wie die Bilder vom ersten Tag zeigen, hat er sich schnell eingelebt :-) Er lebt jetzt in der Nähe von Portland mitten in der Natur mit anderen RR´s zusammen und wir denken, dass der lange Weg sich für ihn gelohnt hat :-)
I must tell you about our special experience that happened to us on the way home from the airport with Zeus on Monday. We did not know his name was Zeus yet. Amanda and I needed to go and pick up Andrea our other daughter before we could come home. We drove to La Center High School and picked her up. Of course our boy is riding in the front seat with us on Andrea and Amanda’s laps, snuggled up sleeping after his long trip to America. We could not bear to think of him alone in his kennel, even in the same vehicle with us. After we picked up Andrea, as we were driving home on very beautiful country roads with open fields of lush, green grass, extensive forests of tall trees and the last of the summer flowers, we saw an extremely larger than normal, intensely colorful rainbow. As we looked, we could see the end of this bright rainbow right there on the road. We were astonished, as we have seen many rainbows here in the northwest, but this one was very wide with brilliant colors and we have never seen the end of a rainbow. We were discussing how fantastic this photograph in our minds was and all of the sudden we see another large beautiful rainbow and again we see the end of this rainbow, but this time the end of the rainbow was sitting in the field we were driving by. We each looked at one another and at our American boy from Belgium and we knew he was so extraordinary and we agreed that his name should be “Zeus” – ruler of the Gods. Our daughter Andrea has studied Greek mythology intently and said “Zeus” was known as a ruler over thunder and the Heavens. Because of our experience with our boy, his name is now “Zeus”. He is pretty much potty trained and looks forward to going outside to run and play although he is not near as fast as Archer, but he still has a very wonderful time trying to catch him. Archer is very good natured and plays nicely with him. Zeus loves nice warm baths in our kitchen sink and then snuggling up near the wood stove afterwards with whichever one of us has the opportunity and pleasure to hold him.
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