Dear Willow....

The following are the emails that have been going back and forward between Aramis and Willow (Aramis's sister). I'm just teaching Aramis how to do this... next time he will post something himself!
Carbi.

Hope you get this as Mum can't find where she wrote down your address. I was wondering where you had gone, last I saw was when Mum put you in that crate, and then we went and watched people walking into a big car with things sticking out each side. Mum said it was a plane, and it was really noisy. Then we watched it go up in the air and disappear. I went along as the "distraction" today while Mum tested a dog, and guess what, I learned to go up and down a moving path that are called escalators. Mum said I had been very good, but am I tired! Olivia says that you are being adopted, and are to be Carbi's brother now.Olivia also said you were the Public Relations Dog for PFD. Does that mean you will have to make speeches and stuff? When you can, will you let me know how you are, thats if you even get this that is, Willow.

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Hi Willow!

Thanks for your email. I miss you and Mum and Olivia.

After you saw me at the airport I flew through the air and ended up in Sydney. Carbi picked me up from the airport and was jumping all over me – I got annoyed at him cause I was tired and sad and the plane had been noisy and I didn’t feel like playing.

Carbi said that his parents are called Dad and Mum – isn’t it funny that there are two Mums??? He said that he belongs to his Dad – but that I can be his Mums dog. I just want to be at home. I went to a big oval with lots of dogs last night – I think it was training. They put me in with the beginners!!! Don’t they know how good I am??? It was really boring – but I was the top of the class!!!

Today I have been playing with – and trying to eat – the two guinea pigs that live here. I’m a bit scared of the rabbit though.

Congratulations on learning to go on an escalator – I’ve been on them – they are very scary aren’t they?!

I also get tired when I’ve been good for a while! It’s very hard to be good all the time.

I don’t know what I’m going to have to do as the PR Dog. I think I just have to be good – so I guess I’ll also be tired!

I went to a meeting with the Mum-that-lives-here today and a little boy who was about three kept pointing his finger at my nose – I stood very still and he poked me (softly) a few times on the nose – then we left.

The Mum-that-lives-here said that we are going to uni tomorrow – whatever that means.

I miss you! I miss you! I miss you! (even if you are annoying sometimes! J)

Aramis

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Hi Willow,

Today I went to Uni! I’m really smart now! I learnt about HIV/AIDS. Uni seems mean that we just sit around for a lot of the time and people talk. I went to the library and used the computer. I also walked down a few flights of stairs!!!

I’m starting to feel hungry again and I ate some food today!

At the moment I am just sitting on the lounge with the Mum-that-lives-here and following her where ever she goes when she gets up.

I still miss you all!

Aramis

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Hi Aramis, Mum is cooking dinner so I can answer you while she is busy. I bet you are the first dog to go to university, Olivia says only very smart people get to go there. Learning about HIV/AIDS sounds interesting, but is it good to eat? Its good you were able to face down those scary stairs, I hope I can do it when I first try them. Oops here comes Mum with her dinner, so I have to get out of her chair, talk to you more later, Willow.

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NO WILLOW!!! DON”T eat any HIV/AIDS if you see any!!!! It’s very bad and it leads to death! Please promise you won’t eat any!!!

I haven’t gone UP any stairs today – but I went down them good. They are a bit scary, but since Carbi can already go up and down them here I should be able to and you will too.

Aramis

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Oh dear, its a good thing you went to university and learned about the dangers of this HIV/AIDS, and I won't eat any, but how will I know, what does it look like, do you know? Olivia just read this and has gone out side laughing, and now I can hear her and Jewel killing thenselves laughing, so I'm thinking that maybe this HIV/AIDS is something we are too young to know about. Its not very nice to laugh at us though is it? I reckon thats why they aren't assistance dogs, and we are, because we have better manners, Willow.

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Hi again Willow,

This is what HIV/AIDS looks like – don’t think it’s going to be hard to miss if we see it.

We definitely have better manners than Olivia and Jewel, we wouldn’t laugh at them unless they told a joke!

Aramis

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Thanks for the picture Aramis, and you know what, I wouldn't eat one of them anyway, too many funny colours, hasn't it? I was poking around in one of Olivia's big holes today, and scratched up a rather tasty little black thing with legs. Olivia tried to take it from my mouth but I was too quick for her and swallowed it whole. Mum said Oh YUK! What exactly does "yuk!" mean do you suppose? By the way, have you ever tasted that black stuff Mum drinks? She spilt some today opening the bottle, and I thought it was pretty awful. Willow.

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Carbi says that his Mum and Dad say yuk when he finds and tries to eat the Wallaby poo in the garden and so he thinks it means that they think that whatever he is eating isn’t yummy.

Oh, and you know how I said I like to play with and try to eat the guinea pig, apparently I’m not allowed to bite them or put my paw into the cage and pull them closer!

The Mum-that-lives-here also drinks that black stuff. She had a red can of it in the car and there was a little bit on the top. I thought it tasted really good.

Aramis

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You and I used to like the same things, so I wonder if there are different sorts of the black stuff. Did you get into trouble for playing with the guinea pigs? were you trying to taste them? I don't know about wallaby poo, but I remember at the place where I was born, we all ate the duck poo and it was pretty good stuff. I remember Mum wasn't too pleased about that either. Willow.