Well here I am with another Friday Flashback. I\u2019m so jealous of Alfie at the moment and his \u2018Eat as much as you like\u2019 diet. I\u2019d just love to be able to eat everything and be offered lots of treats through the day. I suppose I wouldn\u2019t want the weight lost before it, but that\u2019s beside the point. Anyway, I\u2019ve been delving into the archive to find out what happened on this day in previous years, so here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was fun looking back to when Shadow was just a young puppy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow is not content to dig in the grass or by the fence. The pots that my Mistress so lovingly planted, aren\u2019t looking as well as they did. Now in fairness, one whole pot was finished off by the frost but the rest were doing quite well, until Shadow discovered them. She has now dug up and eaten the plants from another pot, and but for our intervention was in the process of starting on my Mistress\u2019s favourite. Our Mistress intends to plant them in a flower bed. I just hope that the bed was going to be in the front garden and not where Shadow could get to it. I think flower beds in the back garden might be a thing to be avoided.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then of course there\u2019s the small matter of the bird table. I was worried when it was being pecked by woodpeckers. How little I knew! Now Shadow has become the bird table\u2019s worst enemy. To be fair it has seen better days and the wood might be a tiny bit rotten, but Shadow has been chewing one of the feet and it isn\u2019t looking so good. The rate she\u2019s going we\u2019re going to have a very lop-sided bird table. Maybe it will only be used by lop-sided birds who won\u2019t mind too much.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of Shadow\u2019s puppies needs to move home to a new family and Shadow is now worrying about him. She\u2019s going through all the usual parental angst about not being there for him when he needs her and feeling as though she has been a bad mother. We\u2019ve all told her that she couldn\u2019t have done anything differently and he may be coming here for a short time until he has a new home to go to, so she can make up to him then. I on the other paw have resorted to hiding in the corner with my paws over my head at the prospect of another puppy to look after. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He was the one everyone fell in love with in the litter first; except my Mistress who was besotted with Aristotle from the start. Amigo, as he was called when he was born just had this way of looking at people and melting their hearts. He was one of the twins. Ah well, I\u2019ll let you know what\u2019s happening when I hear more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n What I can tell you is that Amigo grew up into being a lovely happy dog and lives with one of our Mistress\u2019s friends, who we all adore. It was good that his story had such a happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well that\u2019s all from me for today. Have a lovely Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a9 2018 Rosemary J. Kind<\/p>\n\n\n\n All site content is subject to copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then I found this from 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n