{"id":18047,"date":"2020-11-02T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=18047"},"modified":"2020-11-02T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:00:57","slug":"wilmas-tips-for-a-happy-lockdown-monday-2nd-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/wilmas-tips-for-a-happy-lockdown-monday-2nd-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilma&#8217;s Tips for a Happy Lockdown &#8211; Monday 2nd November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wilma&#8217;s Tips for a happy Lockdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my tips for a happy lockdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, you dogs and cats, you\u2019ve got work to do. You\u2019re all going to be in lockdown again and need to help your humans. Actually, I guess that\u2019s not strictly true, I don\u2019t suppose anyone has been able to lock a cat down for very long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are humans out there who are going to find this difficult. Here is a programme that I know you dogs can make happen. I\u2019m less sure about the cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wilma\u2019s 6 rules of lockdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Get your human up at the same time as normal. It will help them if they stick to a sensible sleep pattern and if they lounge about in bed that won\u2019t happen.<\/li><li>Beg at the usual human meal times to make sure they eat properly and keep to a normal schedule. Remember that if they are having to give you some of their food it will encourage them to eat vegetables instead of chocolate.<\/li><li>Take your humans for long walks. This will help them to settle at the times you need them to rest and will stop them fretting.<\/li><li>Talk to them. If you answer when they talk to you it will help them to realise they can talk to you just as easily as they can to another human. It seems to do humans good to know they can talk. Encourage it.<\/li><li>If they look miserable, take immediate action. Stick your nose onto their nose and stare at them, pull a funny face, run round in circles, fetch them their favourite toy \u2013 I tend to find the bottle opener can be a good one there. Anyway, you get the general picture. Become their entertainer.<\/li><li>If they\u2019ve been sitting on the couch too long then jump up and down and say you need the toilet, even if you don\u2019t. It\u2019s good to keep them moving.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>You can do this. Let\u2019s pull together team. You can share this with your friends and family so they can help their humans too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_3668-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18048\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\"\/><figcaption>An old goofy picture of me and Shadow to make you smile<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\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>Wilma&#8217;s tips for a happy lockdown &#8211; all you dogs have work to do to help your humans get through this.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[146,50,93],"class_list":["post-18047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-covid-19","tag-entlebucher","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047","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=18047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}