{"id":17626,"date":"2020-07-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17626"},"modified":"2020-07-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:00:00","slug":"alfie-flashback-friday-24th-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/24\/alfie-flashback-friday-24th-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Flashback – Friday 24th July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alfie Flashback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time for an Alfie Flashback. To be honest I thought I\u2019d try and find something from a July when the weather was better. Boy, did it rain here yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found this from when Alfie was a puppy, in 2006. It wasn\u2019t about better weather but it was quite sweet. It had been the first time that Mum had been away on holiday without him. He was very pleased to see them home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie glad They\u2019re Back<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well diary I am happy to say that I am home. My mistress and master picked me up yesterday evening after what was for me a very long day of worry. I had told myself that when I saw them I wasn\u2019t going to show my excitement I was going to play it cool. But I\u2019m a dog not a cat. I bounced all over them and my mistress wouldn\u2019t stop hugging me, she was so pleased to see me. It\u2019s funny thinking that I could have thought they didn\u2019t love me. I wonder how long it will take before she gets fed up with my not wanting to let her out of my sight. She actually seems to be rather enjoying it at the minute. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told her all the worries I’d had, that they didn\u2019t need me anymore and that they might not come back for me. She told me I must never think things like that and I would always be their dog and they loved me. I was wondering if I could use it to negotiate any increased pocket money or the occasional sleep on their bed but maybe I\u2019m pushing my luck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Five years ago\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This was fun in 2015 but probably not for the reason you\u2019d think. Mum did take Shadow to the stud dog the following day or the one after. That was when she first heard the news that I had been born. (Did I mention it\u2019s my birthday tomorrow?) Mum didn\u2019t know then that I would be coming to live with her, but it\u2019s fun to think she was in Switzerland when she heard I\u2019d arrived into the world. It was really hot that summer and Mum and Shadow were very hot in their hotel waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A waiting game<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday was a stressful day for the travellers. Shadow\u2019s progesterone test result came back and was still very low. At first they thought it had gone down, but then understood there are two scales and actually it just means it is rising very slowly. That left my Mistress feeling more cheerful and optimistic but just having to accept that they will have to stay in Switzerland a little longer than they had originally thought. Shadow is having another test today and will get the result of that one tomorrow. Our Mistress thinks she might take her to meet the stud dog tomorrow or Sunday but without really expecting much to happen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alfie
Shadow eating out on 24th July 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Wilma has decided it’s time for an Alfie Flashback to when he was small. She also has a tale from 2015 about Shadow.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[109,14,50,27,43,93],"class_list":["post-17626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","tag-alfie","tag-breeding","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-switzerland","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17626","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=17626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}