{"id":17029,"date":"2020-01-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17029"},"modified":"2020-01-31T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T06:00:00","slug":"growling-flashback-friday-31st-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/31\/growling-flashback-friday-31st-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Growling Flashback – Friday 31st January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Growling Flashback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, I haven\u2019t done a Flashback for ages, so I thought I\u2019d look back and see what happened on this day in the past and found a growling flashback for you. January is such a funny month being so dismal, so I was looking for something cheery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was lovely looking right back to when Alfie was just a\nyoung puppy. This is where he was up to in 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trying to Growl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I did try and see if I can bark and growl properly yet.\nFirstly, I tried to bark in greeting to a Yorkie and a Westie that came to\ngreet me at their gate.  I don’t think they even heard me, my bark was so\nquiet. Then we came to a field of horses and I thought I would make clear who\nwas boss, so I tried to growl. Well, it’s safe to say they certainly won’t have\ngone away scared by me!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three years later, Alfie was looking forward to the arrival of\nShadow into our lives. She hadn\u2019t actually been born when he wrote this. He was\nclearly deluding himself if he thought he would ever come above Shadow in the\npecking order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Puppy\u2019s Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about how I explain how things work round here to the puppy when she arrives. Firstly it\u2019s important that she understands where she sits in the pack. Obviously my Mistress is top dog and as things stand, the rest of us are all pretty much equal. I\u2019m clearly expecting the puppy to understand that I am above her in the pecking order, but I will leave it to my Master and James to undertake their own negotiations with her. It\u2019s going to be quite fun trying to explain things to her, which commands to take notice of as they\u2019re in our best interests and which ones to ignore. How to negotiate her own spot on the bed and what will be expected of her if she isn\u2019t to be sent to her basket for the night. She will sleep in with James, so at least I won\u2019t have to make sure she leaves my place on the bed clear, although I do have to have a bit of a discussion over who sleeps where with my master every once in a while.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfie teaching Shadow to play<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well that\u2019s enough of looking backwards. One of the funny things\ngoing on at the moment is that Alfie has started raiding the bin for scraps. He\ngets more to eat than any of the rest of us, but somehow is still hungry. Mum\nis not amused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Wilma has found a growling flashback from 2006 when Alfie was a young puppy and still had a lot to learn.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-17029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029","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=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}