{"id":12601,"date":"2017-02-02T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:00:19","slug":"thursday-2nd-february-2017-in-the-days-before-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/thursday-2nd-february-2017-in-the-days-before-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 2nd February 2017 &#8211; In the days before dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-12602 size-medium\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MVC-001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MVC-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MVC-001-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MVC-001-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MVC-001.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lemon festival Menton 2003<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our Mistress found some discs from her very first digital camera the other day and has managed to find a way to upload the images to the computer. As we looked through them she was telling us about some of the things she used to do before we all moved into her life. She said she wouldn\u2019t swap and having us was better than all those things put together. Wilma asked if she could go to see some of the places with our Mistress, but I would not have liked the crowds. To be honest I\u2019m surprised that our Mistress did as she is never happier than when she\u2019s out on the airfield with one of us and there is no one in site for a very long distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is still trying to identify the bird of prey she has been seeing on a regular basis. Yesterday at one point it was down on the ground only just in front of her and Shadow. By the time our Mistress could get her camera setting on her phone, Shadow had lunged in the direction of the bird and it had flown to the hedge. She tried to creep up on it, but of course as soon as she tried to take its photograph it flew away and she ended up with a fairly uninteresting picture of a hedge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently I am being a model patient over her treating my ear. It isn\u2019t proving too bad to be honest. She\u2019s being as gentle as she can be when she cleans it and the drops are definitely doing their job. I also get my head massaged after she\u2019s put the drops in, so it\u2019s not all bad. I\u2019m almost wondering how long I can string it out for so that I can carry on having the tender moments with her. I suppose I could just be honest and say I\u2019d really like it if that could carry on anyway.<\/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>Our Mistress found some discs from her very first digital camera the other day and has managed to find a way to upload the images <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/thursday-2nd-february-2017-in-the-days-before-dogs\/\" title=\"Thursday 2nd February 2017 &#8211; In the days before dogs\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,93],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}