{"id":17254,"date":"2020-03-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2020-03-30T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:00:00","slug":"social-distancing-monday-30th-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/social-distancing-monday-30th-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing &#8211; Monday 30th March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-social-distancing\">Social distancing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_0045-763x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17255\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I cannot speak for other breeds of dog, but Entlebucher Mountain Dogs do not do social distancing from their humans. Getting us to sit six feet away from you would be nothing short of torture for us. We can just about get our heads round sitting next to you. Our preference is to sit on you. We will have our face in your face unless you tell us that\u2019s not ok and will kiss you at any opportunity. Forget this whole \u2018dogs don\u2019t like to be cuddled\u2019 thing, it just doesn\u2019t work for us. We would be cuddled 24\/7 every week of the year, indefinitely. The best you can do is wash your hands, face\u2026 well, probably all of you, every time we\u2019ve invaded your personal space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wonky-donkey\">Wonky Donkey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Poor old Aristotle. Mum has started calling him wonky donkey. One\nof his front legs was hurting him today which leaves him with only two working\nproperly. Mum is thinking she might have been wrong to delay his specialist\nappointment, but we\u2019ll have to see. It may not have helped when he tried to\nchase a dog that was passing our house yesterday when Mum took him out to the\ntoilet. He was on his lead, being held firmly by Mum so was scrabbling at the\nground. I don\u2019t think it did him any good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-crime-scene-challenge\">Crime scene challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our friends have been doing the crime scene challenge.\nYou need to sit still while your human puts a line of treats right around your\noutline, like a chalk crime scene outline.&nbsp;\nThe idea is for your human to be able to take your photo surrounded by a\nline of treats and you being good. We don\u2019t have a picture because I failed. We\u2019ve\ntried it twice so far and on both occasions Mum didn\u2019t get further than putting\nthe second treat down before I ambushed her. She says if I don\u2019t try a little\nhard to play fair she\u2019ll stop doing it with me. She is under the impression she\nmay have more success with Shadow! I\u2019d like to see her try if I surrounded her\nwith Hobnob biscuits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>If you want a dog who does social distancing, pick another breed. An Entlebucher Mountain Dog does not do social distancing!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,144,50,93],"class_list":["post-17254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","tag-coronavirus","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254","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=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}