{"id":16530,"date":"2019-09-19T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16530"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:00:44","slug":"happy-birthday-aristotle-thursday-19th-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/19\/happy-birthday-aristotle-thursday-19th-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Aristotle – Thursday 19th September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Happy Birthday Aristotle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Happy Birthday Aristotle, Amigo, Addie, Dora, Rafa, Arnie and Soggeli.\nWould you believe they are eight years old today? Shadow has been reminiscing\nabout that Monday morning in 2013 when it all began. Our Mistress has been\naffectionately calling Aristotle \u2018peanut\u2019, his nickname because he was so small\nwhen he was born. I am been indulgently listening to them both. Frankly at my\nage I can\u2019t get away from them all that easily so I\u2019m easy prey as audiences\ngo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, we hope you all have a lovely day. Ari has nothing\nspecial planned but has asked for steak and ice cream for his tea. I\u2019m not altogether\nsure he\u2019s going to get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who needs Hitchcock?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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You really don\u2019t need films called \u2018The Birds\u2019 in this house, we just have the real thing. Yesterday a little robin flew in through the open back door and then couldn\u2019t get out of the office. You can tell Aristotle has a well-honed prey drive, or not, as he was terrified and ran and sat by the back door and wouldn\u2019t come back. Once the poor little bird had stunned itself and found somewhere to sit, our Mistress began the rescue. She opened wide the window at the end of the office, then carefully lifted the robin and put him on the ledge until he had recovered. She got him some mealworm and seed too, just in case he wanted to have a nibble before he left. Ari did come back in, but only after the bird had left and our Mistress had cleaned up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ostriches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As if one bird was not enough, three stroppy ostriches have\nmoved in. They aren\u2019t real ones you understand, these have been painted and\nwere our Mistress\u2019s birthday present. Our Mistress says that one thing she\nlikes about them is that their expression reminds her of Shadow, but I for one\nwill not be telling Shadow she said that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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