{"id":11691,"date":"2016-03-06T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2016-03-06T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T06:00:54","slug":"sunday-6th-march-2016-way-to-go-little-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/06\/sunday-6th-march-2016-way-to-go-little-bro\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 6th March 2016 &#8211; Way to Go, Little Bro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much harder my little brother Dickens works than I do! He\u2019s passed his silver good citizen award. Well done, Dickens. I didn\u2019t get passed puppy, but that\u2019s another story. Wilma is going to make up for it, although she\u2019s been having a naughty weekend and driving our Mistress to distraction. There\u2019s nothing like a little reminder to your human that they are in no position to become complacent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11453\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2950.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11453\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2950-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alfie enjoying the sunshine\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfie enjoying the sunshine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alfie is really not sure if he\u2019s coming or going. He had a lovely walk and really enjoyed the fresh air and sunshine, but then at home he\u2019s getting upset over nothing and doesn\u2019t know what to do with himself. His neck glands are still badly swollen. Our Mistress says she thinks they are even more swollen than they were and she was surprised that he wanted to walk, but then we all need a little sunshine in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Our Mistress is trying to move onto clicker training with Wilma. The first problem is our Mistress\u2019s lack of her coordination and her tendency to click at random times when she didn\u2019t mean to. I\u2019ve tried to reassure her that she will improve, but she\u2019s not sure she will. Wilma\u2019s giving her some leeway at the moment and not taking her clicks too seriously. She\u2019s got to start recording her tricks to upload to be able to pass her Novice Dog Trick certificate. When she does then obviously we\u2019ll let you have a link so you can judge how she\u2019s doing. Her performance is not completely consistent yet, but then neither is Wilma\u2019s. It\u2019s funny watching Wilma having difficulty with some of the things I struggled with when I was young. I thought it was just me, but I try to help showing her the ropes now. I\u2019ve been trying to think back to work out at what point it started to make sense to me, but like all these things it sort of crept up on me over time.<\/p>\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\/\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\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%253Daps&amp;field-keywords=rosemary%20j%20kind\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>How much harder my little brother Dickens works than I do! He\u2019s passed his silver good citizen award. Well done, Dickens. I didn\u2019t get passed <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/06\/sunday-6th-march-2016-way-to-go-little-bro\/\" title=\"Sunday 6th March 2016 &#8211; Way to Go, Little Bro\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[63,78,60,93],"class_list":["post-11691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-training","tag-aristotle","tag-bumble","tag-training-2","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691","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=11691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}