{"id":16771,"date":"2019-11-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16771"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:00:00","slug":"friday-flashback-friday-15th-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/15\/friday-flashback-friday-15th-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback – Friday 15th November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friday Flashback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well it\u2019s Friday flashback once again and I thought it would be fun to look back to when Alfie was just a puppy. When he was born he didn\u2019t write a diary, so I can\u2019t go right back. I did ask Mum about when he was tiny and apparently when he was born he weighed almost twice as much as Aristotle did when he was born. He was one of a litter of five, as you probably know by now. Where he was born, in Belgium, the first letter of the name goes with the year he was born. As he was born in 2005 his name begins with the letter E. I know Alfie doesn\u2019t begin with an E, but his real name is Einstein. Can you imagine if Mum had kept him as that and we\u2019d had an Einstein and an Aristotle in the house? Anyway, let\u2019s go back a to when he was one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006 being Philosophical<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s odd thinking about the difference between dog ages and\nhuman ages. I could almost feel cheated out of the six birthdays I would have\nhad in the last year on top of the actual one I had if I really equate to seven\nyears old in human terms. I suppose it is a bit like people whose birthdays\nfall on February 29th<\/sup> only getting a proper birthday every leap\nyear. This means that I have overtaken one of the children in age already and\nwill overtake James by my next birthday. It will take until I am seven before I\nwill have overtaken my mistress and caught up with my master and that seems an\nawfully long time away. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t seem fair that humans live so much longer than\ndogs do, or do I mean it isn\u2019t fair that dogs live so much less time than\nhumans? I look after myself, I eat healthily and get lots of exercise. What\nmore do you think I would have to do to live to be 70+ in real years?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Wayward Life<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you are a dog there doesn\u2019t seem much incentive to\navoid drinking heavily and smoking, either way I only get to live for 10 years\nor so. I suppose there would be little harm in taking up some dangerous sports,\nalthough I think my mistress might have something to say about it. She probably\nthinks that trying to chase trucks is a dangerous sport and that justifies her\nkeeping me on my lead. She really does have so little imagination.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I wonder what Alfie would have said if he\u2019d known then that he would live to be older than every other member of the family, if you convert the dog years. It\u2019s funny when you look back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To finish off I thought I\u2019d share his other \u2018official photo\u2019.\nThe one he had with Mum and Dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a great Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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