{"id":16885,"date":"2019-12-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2019-12-20T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:00:00","slug":"life-in-the-old-dog-yet-friday-20th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/20\/life-in-the-old-dog-yet-friday-20th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the old dog yet – Friday 20th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Life in the old dog yet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well there\u2019s life in the old dog yet, possibly not a great deal but you don\u2019t get rid of me that easily. We saw the vet yesterday and it is probably I have a type of lymphoma. We\u2019ve got my pain largely under control, unless you start poking around, in which case I won\u2019t be quite so pleased. She thinks I can look forward to at least a few more weeks before I have to hang up my lead for the last time. I\u2019m still eating and I\u2019m happy as long as my Mistress is in my line of sight. Our lovely vet has given me another medication to take at night that we are hoping will mean I don\u2019t get distressed if my Mistress leaves me for a few hours to go to her own bed. For some reason she doesn\u2019t see a chair with two footstools at the bottom of it as a long term sleeping arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full house<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dad came home last night and Wilma and Ari are coming out of\nkennels this morning. We have no idea how it\u2019s all going to work with our\nMistress still on crutches, but she\u2019s getting about a lot better now so hopefully\nwe\u2019ll all work something out. Christmas is all being shaped around my needs,\nfor which I\u2019m grateful. We were going into kennels but our Mistress has made\nclear that she\u2019s by my side for as long as is necessary. It will be just the\ntwo of us at home on Christmas day. The others will still go into kennels while\nour Master goes to see his family as planned. Our Mistress says as we haven\u2019t\nordered a turkey for us would I mind very much if we had steak instead. I\nmanaged to keep a straight face when I answered her. Have you ever known me\nturn down steak?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

There’s life in the old dog yet – or so Alfie still likes to think. He’s planning to be around for a while yet and we’re all very pleased.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[109,50],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}