Wilma wouldn\u2019t listen. You know what puppies are like, though you might think that statement just a little rich coming from me. I told her that when Alfie and I had bones the other week and ate them too quickly we ended up getting the runs, but she thought she knew better. \u201cOh no, Ari, I can eat anything. I\u2019ve got a cast iron stomach. Or so Mum says.\u201d Well who\u2019s laughing now? Actually to be fair none of us is. Our Mistress is not laughing having had to clean up in the kitchen and spend the night on the settee with her. Alfie and I aren\u2019t laughing as it means Wilma has been taken off bones for 24 hours while everything settles down, so we don\u2019t get to nibble them when she\u2019s not looking and of course Wilma is not laughing as she is missing her bones. Shadow\u2019s just not that sort of dog. She\u2019s still grumbling that Wilma is being given special treatment and there is an unfair distribution of the bone supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I should have headed this \u2018Dear Mr Farmer\u2026\u2019 but I\u2019m not very good at asking. Because of having to walk on grass so my legs can recover I\u2019ve been going on a different walk and the grass is really long and comes right up to my back. I keep getting quite wet as I walk and you should see the state of our Mistress\u2019s jeans. Usually the farmer cuts the edge of the field quite regularly to make walking easier, but I guess everything has grown really quickly over the last couple of weeks and it\u2019s a big job. Our Mistress said I shouldn\u2019t complain as it\u2019s very generous that he lets us walk there at all, which is true, and I do love those fields. Ah well. I can be patient\u2026 no, I can, really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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