We were talking to Wilma about the things we did when we were her age. She’s now 10 months old so it’s fun to reminisce on our puppyhoods. I thought I’d share one of those times with you in case you can’t remember or weren’t reading what Alfie wrote back then. He didn’t allow me to write any days on my own way back then. It was July 2012. This is what Alfie wrote about me on the first day of the month:
‘Ari was quiet, so my Mistress went to see what he was doing. He was taking all the weeds that she’d put in the wheelbarrow and spreading them over the patio. So, my Mistress told him off and said he wasn’t to do that any more. Ari was quiet, so my Mistress went to see what he was doing. He had opened the sack of bark and distributed it round the patio. He grinned and said he hadn’t touched the weeds. Ari was quiet, my Mistress went to see what he was doing. He had taken two lengths of timber off the sun bed and was sitting on the patio chewing them. Once again he was told not to do that. Of course he protested that he’d left the bark and the weeds alone. Ari was quiet. By now you are probably getting the picture. He’d left the timber, the bark and weeds exactly as he had been told to and had instead eaten the door mat! He’s got class. Of course it did get him grounded, but it was unconvincing as my Mistress was laughing as she told him off and the way he grinned up at her I strongly suspect that he had understood exactly what he was doing!’
I liked the bit where he said I’ve got class! Our Mistress always jokes that when she goes out she has to leave me in my crate for fear that if she doesn’t, by the time she gets back I’ll have sold the house and deposited the money in a numbered Swiss bank account. There’s nothing like giving me ideas!
Aristotle
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