{"id":16802,"date":"2019-11-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16802"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T06:00:00","slug":"ramp-for-alfie-tuesday-26th-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/26\/ramp-for-alfie-tuesday-26th-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ramp For Alfie – Tuesday 26th November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Ramp For Alfie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ramp for Alfie really is a huge success. He is so happy that he can spend some time in the office again. He has to wear his harness so that Mum can help him up and down the ramp, supporting some of his weight. When he gets into the office, he is so pleased to find a spot just to settle down near Mum and goes straight to sleep. I know that may not sound much, but when he is not with Mum he spends a lot of time feeling distressed and confused and can end up barking a great deal, so it\u2019s a relief to all of us when he\u2019s happy and settles down quietly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mum can\u2019t leave him up there if she has to leave the room as\nhe isn\u2019t safe to make his own way down and does eventually try to follow her.\nThe only problem is that he isn\u2019t always keen to get up and go with her down\nthe ramp when she needs to. It\u2019s very hard to move 30kg of inert dog that\nreally doesn\u2019t want to get up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Packing the car<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once I\u2019ve finished this, Mum has said I need to get my things\nready to pack into the car. We\u2019re not setting off until later, but we\u2019re going\nto see my human grandparents today on our way to Switzerland. I think Mum is\ngoing to be a bit emotional having to leave Alfie behind for a while, but he\u2019s\ndone his best to reassure us that he will be fine until we get back and really\nis quite well at the moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shadow has said she will look after him too. She acts as a bit\nof a guide dog for him these days. He\u2019s not blind, in fact his vision seems not\ntoo bad, it\u2019s just he gets so confused and is much better when he has another\ndog to follow for what to do. It took him ages to find the way out of the open\nfront door the other day, even with Mum and Shadow trying to show him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

The ramp for Alfie is a huge success. Wilma is very happy for him now he can go back to the office again.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,27,93],"class_list":["post-16802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}