{"id":12520,"date":"2017-01-07T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2017-01-07T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:00:11","slug":"saturday-7th-january-2017-not-all-sweetness-and-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/07\/saturday-7th-january-2017-not-all-sweetness-and-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 7th January 2017 – Not all sweetness and light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Take no notice of whatever Wilma says to you about how good she is, she is a mischievous puppy. Oh don\u2019t think I\u2019m saying that\u2019s a bad thing, in my book that\u2019s how it\u2019s supposed to be and I feel that she is learning well from my example. In theory at training she is supposed by this stage to work without treats. However, I have taught her that\u2019s a mug\u2019s game and she really needs to demand nothing but the best in order to comply with a human\u2019s request. Ok, so I\u2019ve softened a bit as I\u2019ve got older but if I don\u2019t like what\u2019s being suggested I still hold out until an upgrade is offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might think by the age of nearly eighteen months she shouldn\u2019t be regarding herself as a puppy anymore, but I\u2019m five and I still try to claim that prerogative at times. I only finally accepted there were times I needed to behave like an adult when I turned four and don\u2019t think I will ever total accept adulthood. To be fair, it\u2019s a trait that runs in our household. For Christmas our Mistress bought a tee shirt for our Master which says \u2018Cleverly disguised as an adult\u2019 on the front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The other day, Wilma was so focussed on the idea of her bedtime biscuit that she only pretended to go to the toilet and then ran straight back to the house. Our Mistress sent her back down the garden and thought the problem had been dealt with, until they got upstairs to the bedroom and our Mistress was half changed into her pyjamas when Wilma suddenly says \u2018I still need the toilet\u2019. As you can imagine our Mistress was not best pleased. Once outside, Wilma decided apart from going to the loo that she\u2019d got the zoomies and hared off around the garden like a mad thing until she\u2019d had enough. Once inside our Mistress couldn\u2019t find her and it turned out that she\u2019d gone to hide under the bed. I think she was planning to pounce out on everyone when they least expected it, but our Mistress found her and sent her to bed before she could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moral of this story is \u2018never have a dog who\u2019s brighter than you are\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love Aristotle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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