{"id":17443,"date":"2020-05-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17443"},"modified":"2020-05-29T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:00:00","slug":"puppy-wanted-flashback-friday-29th-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/puppy-wanted-flashback-friday-29th-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Wanted Flashback – Friday 29th May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Puppy Wanted Flashback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Puppy Wanted Flashback – apply within. Ha ha, that worried you. Not now. As I\u2019m not doing anything very exciting this end, I thought I\u2019d bring you a Friday Flashback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I loved finding this from 12 years ago when Alfie was setting out to find a companion and Mum was beginning to work out how to develop our breed in this country. It\u2019s funny think that back then Alfie was the tenth of our breed in the UK. I guess Alfie was very proud to get to over a hundred of us here in his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puppy wanted<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have spent quite a long time trying to find out who to contact to bring some more Entlebucher puppies to England. It really isn\u2019t very easy when you are trying to read websites in lots of different languages. Then I had the problem of writing emails that were easy to understand and which said what we needed to say. It\u2019s all very well but faced with people who want your puppies, who speak the same language, and are just down the road or people who want your best puppies who are in another country and don\u2019t speak the same language, which would you choose? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was starting to get very disheartened but my Mistress reminded me that we aren\u2019t quitters and that out there somewhere are some puppies just waiting to come and be my companions. I tried using the word \u2018harem\u2019 but my Mistress pointed out that one of them would be a boy. B<\/em>y the end I was worn out. It would be nice to have a little girl dog to share my basket with. I promise I\u2019d take very good care of her.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three years later they had already come a long way. Shadow had not only joined the family, but grown up enough that she was looking to have puppies of her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting for Shadow\u2019s Season<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And still we wait for Shadow\u2019s season. We are however in the date range that my Mistress was originally expecting if it hadn\u2019t been for the fact of Megan\u2019s being a few weeks ago and the possibility of them synchronising. My Mistress thinks it will start by 20th<\/sup> June at the latest, so every day is becoming more likely. I\u2019ve bitten all my front claws with anxiety and am now starting on the back ones. If it doesn\u2019t happen soon I shall have to start chewing Megan\u2019s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh so funny, then I rolled forward to 2017 when Leo and I met and I fell in love. Obviously I couldn\u2019t mate with him as I haven\u2019t passed my tests, but if all goes well he will be mating with Sybil later this year and I have to say I really am very jealous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting Shadow\u2019s son Leo<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m in love. Not just a little bit. I\u2019m head over paws in love with Leo. Mum wonders if I might be coming into season as we were both so utterly desperate to be together and we were both shrieking when we couldn\u2019t be. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He even jumped out of the kitchen window into the garden to come and find me. I was flirting. I admit it, but to be honest neither one of us needed any encouragement at all. Season or no season we\u2019d both have been happy to mate right there right then. That\u2019s why Mum took me into the garden to separate us, but Leo howled and I wouldn\u2019t stop barking. As a result Mum thought she should take me away rather sooner than later to be on the safe side. I was devastated. That was when he jumped out of the window to come after me. It was so romantic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me with Leo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well I suppose I\u2019d better stop day dreaming and get back to reality. 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":"

Wilma is looking at a ‘Puppy Wanted Flashback’ to when Alfie wanted his own pet. Be careful what you wish for – he got Shadow.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,99,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-17443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-dartagnan","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443","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=17443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}