{"id":18697,"date":"2020-12-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=18697"},"modified":"2020-12-17T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:00:00","slug":"dear-little-alfie-thursday-17th-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/17\/dear-little-alfie-thursday-17th-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Little Alfie – Thursday 17th December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Little Alfie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today we have an update on our dear little Alfie. Obviously he\u2019s only now \u2018little\u2019 in our imaginations and to set him apart from our own dear Alfie. He\u2019s now pretty much a big Alfie, and he\u2019s grown up into a very handsome dog. He\u2019s still going through all those difficult ages of not being quite sure of himself and barking at times he shouldn\u2019t. We all do it, young Alfie, just take it step by step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learning Tricks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s learnt to bark on command and be quiet on command\u2026 except at the times when he\u2019s out and doesn\u2019t feel quite so comfortable. You\u2019ll get there, keep going. He knows to look to his human for encouragement and that\u2019s a really good thing. That\u2019s what they\u2019re there for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking opportunities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am pleased to say he\u2019s growing into a fine dog to spot an opportunity. He isn\u2019t one to stand on ceremony if he spots a food opportunity. Mum says it\u2019s wrong of me to compliment him on this, but how can I not? I\u2019m proud of him. As long as your human apologises for you, you can usually get away with it. Obviously, it\u2019s easier when they can say you are still a puppy, but don\u2019t let that stop you in adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Off lead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Off lead he\u2019s doing very well. To be honest, we all prefer that. Having to drag our human along on a lead is a real chore. Humans so often don\u2019t do as we tell them. They go the wrong way, pull on the lead, you know the sorts of thing. Letting the human be off lead gives all of us so much more chance to relax. Well done for trusting your human enough to let them off, Alfie. It really is to everyone\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Dear little Alfie has written to us with an update. He’s very well and happy to share his progress with you. He’s still learning!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,61],"tags":[50,149,60],"class_list":["post-18697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entlebucher","category-training","tag-entlebucher","tag-little-alfie","tag-training-2","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697","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=18697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}