Alice meets Cesar Millan!

Mar 24, 2010

Nothing can take away from the sadness we are all feeling at the moment, knowing 3 Post Pal families lost a child in just one week. However, I wanted to share some nice news from another family.

One of Alice P’s dreams for a long time has been to meet Cesar Millan and his best friend, American Pit Bull, Daddy. Sadly, Daddy passed away just a few weeks ago, but with lots of emails and phone calls by lots of people, her dream came true!

We didn’t know if it would be possibly to meet Cesar and if Alice would be well enough, so we tried at first to get an autograph. Our treasuer, Jan, went to one of his shows and gave a card (a dog one of course), a print out of some of Alice’s page, and a note saying she would love to hear from him. We crossed our fingers he would send it and last week Alice opened her post to find a card from none other than Cesar himself! She was over the moon and said she wanted it framing… however she didn’t know what was to come!

Alice had been told she was having a weekend away in Liverpool to go shopping as its near the hospital “just incase”. After a rest at the hotel she (like everyone else) was looking at a huge white Hummer which was parked outside. Her Mum said she deserved to get to their dinner reservation in style! An hour of disco lights and extremely loud music later, they arrived at the Echo Arena. Her parents then told Alice ad Milly that they were going to see the Cesar show and she was so excited to have VIP front of house tickets. In the interval, Cesar’s assistant came out to call Alice who was well and truly speechless! They were all invited backstage into Cesar’s dressing room and he was so sweet with the girls. Alice hardly spoke a word!

Here is a lovely photograph of them together.

A special thank you to everyone who sent emails left right and center, to Elaine from the Thomas Ball Fund who paid for the Limo, to people who made donations so Post Pals could contribute, to Susan and to Cesar. Everyone has made Alice one very happy girl!

While talking about Alice, I thought I would post about a little project we are doing for her. If you have a dog or your friend does then please send Alice a photo of them with a little information, as when she is in hospital she is going to make a scrapbook from them. If you don’t have a dog you can still make Alice smile by sending her some dog themed post – can she receive some from all around the world? Her address is on her page here.