{"id":11630,"date":"2016-01-05T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:54:06","slug":"tuesday-5th-january-2015-a-bond-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/05\/tuesday-5th-january-2015-a-bond-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 5th January 2015 &#8211; A bond of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2527-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2527\" class=\"wp-image-11201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2527-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2527-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2527-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2527.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Well after my weekend off I finally need to get round to updating you on how much my Mistress likes the ring that I bought her with my Master\u2019s help. She wears it all the time on the other hand from the wedding ring that my Master gave her. She has promised to wear it always to remind her of the bond that she and I have. She says I am the whole reason we now have a house full of Entlebuchers and why she has got so involved with the breed. Until I came into her life she had never imagined she would become a dog breeder or that she would ever know so much about a breed, but I changed all that. I was the tenth of my breed registered in this country and our Mistress couldn\u2019t bear the thought that if anything happened to me she wouldn\u2019t be able to have another. That was eight years ago this month. Now there are 68 of us in the country and another one arriving in three weeks time. There are possibly four matings taking place in this country this year and for the first time there will be a mating between a UK born girl and UK born stud dog. Now obviously there are other people working within the breed but without me my Mistress wouldn\u2019t have done her bit. It makes me very proud to think that. Of course, it doesn\u2019t make me any better behaved but it does make me proud! This is a picture of her wearing the ring \u2013 or at least of her hand. Anyway thank you to Pawprint Jewellery \u2013 we both love it and I\u2019m sure it won\u2019t be the last thing we buy from you, if my pocket money will stretch that far. Wilma already thinks she should have got pawprint earrings instead of ordinary ones for our Mistress so maybe that will be next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=rosemary%20j%20kind\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Well after my weekend off I finally need to get round to updating you on how much my Mistress likes the ring that I bought <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/05\/tuesday-5th-january-2015-a-bond-of-friendship\/\" title=\"Tuesday 5th January 2015 &#8211; A bond of friendship\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[63,50,93],"class_list":["post-11630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27806,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions\/27806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}