{"id":17568,"date":"2020-07-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17568"},"modified":"2020-07-07T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:00:00","slug":"update-on-little-alfie-tuesday-7th-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/07\/update-on-little-alfie-tuesday-7th-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Little Alfie – Tuesday 7th July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update on Little Alfie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve got an update on Little Alfie. He emailed us yesterday with a progress report and some photos. He\u2019s already getting bigger. It\u2019s going to be funny calling him Little Alfie when he ends up bigger than me. Anyway, here\u2019s what he had to tell us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time apart from his humans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He says he sleeps in a crate at night and is being very good. He doesn\u2019t get up until 5am, which is pretty good going when you\u2019re small. He doesn\u2019t cry at all when he\u2019s left at night. He\u2019s not quite so happy if his humans leave him at all during the day, but frankly which one of us is? He still has a little cry but he says he\u2019s trying very hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has asked if we\u2019ve got any tips for how he can get to be allowed to sleep with his humans. Just hang in there buddy, use your big brown eyes and keep reminding them how cuddly you are. You\u2019ll get there in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Car travel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Little Alfie doesn\u2019t understand why he\u2019s not being allowed to sit in the passenger seat of the car. Well, little fellow, I know it\u2019s not so much fun, but you really are safer in a crate in the boot. For one thing, if for any reason the car was in an accident, there is no risk of you getting out into traffic and that is very important. On top of that, we do know of one naughty puppy who chewed through some of the car\u2019s electrics and cost their humans \u00a35000 in repairs. They wouldn\u2019t like that, however much they love you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toilet Commands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Little Alfie is very proud of learning his toilet commands. He says quite honestly the faster he can do it at the right times the better, because it is so embarrassing to have his humans shouting \u2018wee wee\u2019 all the time outside. Just humour them, it keeps them happy. You\u2019ll soon learn that humans are strange. At least ours use the less embarrassing command of \u2018go\u2019 but we really do understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Play Biting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He says he is getting much better with not using his teeth at the wrong times. He\u2019s quite proud of his new teeth and likes to use them if at all possible. Little Alfie, there are a few things you can do to help your humans here. Most importantly, explain to them that you are like any small child when teething and need to chew to help your teeth come through and because your gums are sore. Suggest they keep your chews to hand at all times. If you bite on the wrong thing, get them to pass you something you are allowed to chew. Frozen Kongs can be very good too as the cold will soothe your little gums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also teach them through play. Let them put their hand in your mouth and then as you gently bring your teeth down, get them to do a pretend squeal. Never actually bit them, but you can keep their bite inhibition training going for ages and they will have great fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update on Little Alfie Tricks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re really impressed to hear that Little Alfie is already learning tricks. He can do some of his basic training things like sit and lie down. But he has already learnt to give his paw to someone and is now working on roll over and crawl. Do send a video if you get chance, we\u2019d love to see you in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re all really proud of you little fella and look forward to hearing from you soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

We’ve had an email with an update on Little Alfie. Wilma is excited to tell you how the little chap is getting along.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,149,53,93],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-entlebucher","tag-little-alfie","tag-puppies","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568","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=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}