{"id":13712,"date":"2017-10-07T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=13712"},"modified":"2017-10-07T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T05:00:34","slug":"saturday-7th-october-2017-dipping-my-paw-in-my-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/saturday-7th-october-2017-dipping-my-paw-in-my-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 7th October 2017 – Dipping my paw in my pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Heidi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s the day. The Walk for Heidi gets underway. Between now and 25th<\/sup> October 20 of our breed will be turning out to walk legs of a 552 mile walk to represent the distance from Entlebuch in Switzerland to the Swiss Embassy in London. Over the weekend, dogs will be starting major legs of the walk in York, Bedford, London, Berkshire and Bristol. Then walks will continue from now until five of the intrepid walkers go to London to walk a final leg around Regent\u2019s Park and on the Swiss Embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are they doing this? They are doing it all for Heidi. Heidi is Shadow\u2019s granddaughter and has been ill since being born with Ectopic Ureter. She\u2019s got her grandmother\u2019s grit and is doing her best in the face of great difficulty to live a normal life. However, she needs treatment and we want to help pay for it. You can all help by going to our Just Giving Page HERE<\/a>. The walk is aiming to raise at least \u00a32000 of what we need. When I looked yesterday it was \u00a3357 online and another \u00a3280 of offline donations, so \u00a3637 so far. I\u2019ve put my paw in my pocket to sponsor them \u00a30.10 a mile. You don\u2019t need to go that far, but even a penny a mile would be worth it to Heidi. A penny a mile would mean giving just \u00a35.52 out of your bone money. That\u2019s just a couple of packs of dog biscuits and we can all do without those I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now here\u2019s the thing. I\u2019m willing to go out and walk. I\u2019m nearly twelve and don\u2019t tend to go out on walks these days for a number of reasons. However, if you will all sponsor me I will get my Master and Mistress to take me out to walk a leg of the walk for Heidi. I\u2019m looking for at least \u00a310 here. When you sponsor, if you make it at least \u00a310 and put in the comments that it\u2019s to get Alfie to walk then I will go out to walk for Heidi and bring you the photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll bring you updates of how far along the whole walk the team have got over the next couple of weeks. Let\u2019s see if we can all work to make Heidi well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie<\/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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