{"id":11656,"date":"2016-01-31T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2016-01-31T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:00:30","slug":"sunday-31st-january-2016-being-a-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/31\/sunday-31st-january-2016-being-a-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 31st January 2016 – Being a Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next weekend our Mistress has to train judges about our breed. It\u2019s not just telling them we\u2019re lovely, that\u2019s the easy bit. It\u2019s being able to tell them exactly how big we should be and how each part of our body should look and move. Our Master says I\u2019m about the most handsome chap he\u2019s ever seen, if it weren\u2019t for my wonky elbows and the way I walk as a result, but I\u2019m not going to be a model, the girls are.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t be the only ones, there will be lots of Entlebuchers of different sizes and ages, both girls and boys. None of us is really perfect, but that\u2019s the whole point. Our Mistress needs to show the judges the things that are wrong as well as the things that are right. She may have to ask the dogs to cover their ears as she shows things that could be better on each of them. Shadow and Wilma aren\u2019t her demonstration dogs in the morning, they are both going to be part of the assessment in the afternoon, when the judges have to score five dogs and write up a critique of what they could see, putting the dogs in order of merit.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>
Me and Wilma having a cuddle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Mistress has explained to Wilma that she mustn\u2019t worry if she doesn\u2019t come out top. She\u2019s still young and has some growing to do. There will be some very handsome mature dogs there who she knows will do well. Shadow just laughed and said she knew she wouldn\u2019t come out top. After 22 puppies her tummy is a little saggy and her waistline not what it used to be. That\u2019s before you even get to the fact that she runs with the wrong gait, but she gets cross when I mention that.<\/p>\n

Wilma will have to get used to the critiques as she plans to have a go in the showring, it\u2019s a good job she\u2019s not the sort of dog to take things personally.<\/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":"

Next weekend our Mistress has to train judges about our breed. It\u2019s not just telling them we\u2019re lovely, that\u2019s the easy bit. It\u2019s being able […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,50,34,27,93],"class_list":["post-11656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-kennel-club","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}