Oh the joy of trying to work out how many puppies there are. Our Mistress doesn\u2019t have any proper dog clippers and to be honest was loathed to shave all Shadow\u2019s beautiful fur, so it made it much harder to either a) get a good contact or b) mark where each one was. However, with a little time and practice she was able to differentiate between the general sounds of Shadow\u2019s body working and little heartbeats. On one side she feels confident she could find three heartbeats and on the other she was confident of two and thought she had a third. This does seem to support the idea that Shadow is expecting five or six pups. She is going to talk to our Master to see if he will forgive her for shaving some of Shadow\u2019s fur so she can get a better contact, but to be honest I think she is confident enough of what she has found so far even without going to those lengths.<\/p>\n
She was weighed at swimming yesterday and now weighs more than either Aristotle or myself. She is a massive 30.3kg so already more than 25% more than her normal weight and she\u2019s still eating for England\u2026 or Switzerland as the case may be! The fact that she\u2019s still eating gives my Mistress some indication that the pups won\u2019t be arriving for a few days yet. Last time she stopped eating about 4 days before they arrived. Which means you still have time to join in the guessing when the first pup will be born. Leave a comment to tell us when you think. So far we have:<\/p>\n
Dickens – Sat 26th<\/sup> Midday It was my turn to swim yesterday and it wasn\u2019t my usual hydrotherapist. It quite threw me. I really didn\u2019t want to swim and was all over the place going round in circles. I\u2019m a bit of a creature of habit and I\u2019ve become rather fond of my usual lady. I know she has to have holiday but in future I think our Mistress should take Aristotle on those weeks so that I\u2019m not inconvenienced.<\/p>\n Our Mistress has emailed to book Wilma\u2019s first puppy training courses. She is thinking of taking Wilma to two different classes so that she is well socialised. It brought back memories of how much I didn\u2019t like going to classes, but I\u2019ve promised not to share my horror stories with Wilma.<\/p>\n You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nVal \u2013 Sunday (her birthday)
\nDavid \u2013 6.30am Monday
\nLynn \u2013 8pm Sunday<\/p>\n