{"id":1233,"date":"2011-05-26T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneandonly.me.uk\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T08:00:26","slug":"thursday-26th-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/05\/26\/thursday-26th-may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 26th May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my Mistress\u2019s nephew\u2019s 18th<\/sup> birthday, which I guess makes him my cousin. Happy birthday cousin. It\u2019s funny for a dog celebrating 18th<\/sup> birthdays and recognising them as the gateway to adulthood in a human. We rarely reach the age of 18 and for us adulthood starts at around 18 months old, when a human child is still heavily dependant for its care on its parents. For a human there is this massive build up and anticipation. There are laws governing the things you can\u2019t do until that age and then there is the sad anticlimax of passing that age and realising it is all downhill from here. To be fair my Mistress said that she wouldn\u2019t want to go back to being 18. For her life was better by the time she reached her twenties.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m slightly in the wars. I had a bit of a disagreement with Shadow and she hurt my cheek. I got lots of tender loving care and sympathy, but I\u2019d rather not have had the painful cheek. I\u2019m trying to be brave but you know how it is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to give you young puppies just one small piece of advice today. Don\u2019t be fooled into thinking that the closed hand always contains a dog treat. Your humans will condition you. They will give you rewards for being good for so long and then suddenly they will hold their hand as though about to reward you and you will do whatever it was they were asking, only to find that the hand is empty and you\u2019ve been fooled. From here on it is bad news. You will always have that doubt in your mind. You will always be thinking \u2018but there might be a treat\u2019 and you will only ever find out after you have complied that all you are going to receive is a pat and to be frank you could get one of those just by looking cute.<\/p>\n

Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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