{"id":17523,"date":"2020-06-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17523"},"modified":"2020-06-25T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:00:00","slug":"first-post-from-little-alfie-thursday-25th-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/first-post-from-little-alfie-thursday-25th-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post from Little Alfie  &#8211; Thursday 25th June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First Post from Little Alfie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I can\u2019t tell you how excited I am to be brining you the first post from little Alfie. He had to leave living with his Mama and brothers and sisters a couple of days ago so that he could look after his new human family. It\u2019s a big job for any puppy, but he\u2019s rising to the challenge. He had to be in the car for five hours to get to his new home. That\u2019s a long way when you\u2019re only 8 weeks old. He had a little cry when he waved goodbye to his mama but then settle down to sleep snuggled up to one of his new humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-1-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-1-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was very good, and didn\u2019t need to stop for toilets the whole way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overnight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I think calling him Alfie will have helped, as Mum says Alfie was just the same when he was a puppy. Anyway, little Alfie went to bed that night at about 11. He did have a little cry as everything was strange, but then he was very brave and settled down to sleep until 5 in the morning when he was definitely ready to go outside, but hadn\u2019t had any accidents in the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-3.jpg\" alt=\"picture accompanying first post from little Alfie - him lying on the grass.\" class=\"wp-image-17525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-3-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-3-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building a bond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s already getting close to his new humans and is quite certain that their training won\u2019t take him too long. He is using reward based training with them, which we all find generally works. As long as the humans do exactly what we want them to, we show them some affection and they lap it up. He\u2019s got four humans to train, two adults and two smaller humans and he says he thinks he\u2019s going to enjoy every minute of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8-weeks-4-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17526\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I shall let you know how he\u2019s doing soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Swimming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aristotle and Shadow can\u2019t stop being excited. Mum has told them she has booked for them to go swimming next week. It has been so long since any of us has been anywhere very exciting, it\u2019s a real treat for them. It will work as it did for me going to day care yesterday. When we get there, we wait outside while Mum moves away from us. Then we are shown in and can relax until collection time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My trip yesterday was funny though. It\u2019s been so long since Mum used the car that the tyres showed as needing some more air in them. She was good and sorted it out before coming to pick me up. The last thing we want is any problems.<\/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>This is the first post from Little Alfie. He&#8217;s been telling us how he&#8217;s settling into his new home. It not easy being a young puppy. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[63,50,149,27,93],"class_list":["post-17523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-little-alfie","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523","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=17523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}