{"id":11724,"date":"2016-04-08T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2016-04-08T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T05:00:41","slug":"friday-8th-april-2016-wilma-will-not-be-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/08\/friday-8th-april-2016-wilma-will-not-be-contained\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 8th April 2016 &#8211; Wilma will not be contained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are times, for our own good, that our Mistress has to ask us to stay in a particular room. Sometimes it is because she wants to quickly run an errand without our help, other times it is because she is moving a car or carrying something heavy for example. We all get it. None of us likes to be excluded, but we play by the rules\u2026 except Wilma. There is a gate at the top of the stairs by the office. It is there because there is no door to the office. Although Wilma has a crate, our Mistress decided she was now responsible enough to be asked to wait with me with the gate closed. She was wrong! I may have told you before that Wilma can move a little like a springbok and can generate a significant amount of upward motion without any effort at all. Well, one minute she was my side of the gate and the next minute she wasn\u2019t and I\u2019d barely seen her move in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-image-11585\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3108-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aristotle's latest selfie! (I worry about that dog)\" class=\"wp-image-11585\"\/><figcaption>Aristotle&#8217;s latest selfie! (I worry about that dog)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You would think that was enough in the way of escape skills for one dog, but you\u2019d be wrong. Because of the stage of Wilma\u2019s season she will not leave Aristotle alone and it\u2019s driving him crackers. To give him a bit of freedom our Mistress put Wilma into a crate in the other room for an hour and closed the door to the room too. We all heard some odd noises, but nothing too much. However, when our Mistress went to bring her out she was not in her crate but sitting behind the door waiting. Our Mistress assumed that the side of the crate had not been properly clipped so she did a test. She did the crate up securely and while later put Wilma back in. Five minutes! That was all it took for Wilma to undo the side of the crate again to let herself out. She knew exactly what she was doing and could not let herself out of any fold down crate that we own \u2013 unless our Mistress binds it together with something Wilma proof. If she and Aristotle ever put their heads together to devise a plan, there would be absolutely no stopping them. I think Wilma\u2019s training is our Mistress\u2019s futile attempt to harness her brainpower for good before she comes up with her own schemes!<\/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>There are times, for our own good, that our Mistress has to ask us to stay in a particular room. 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