{"id":19281,"date":"2021-01-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2021-01-06T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:00:00","slug":"pretty-polly-wednesday-6th-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/06\/pretty-polly-wednesday-6th-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Polly &#8211; Wednesday 6th January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pretty Polly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to tell you about the very pretty Polly. No, I\u2019m not talking about a parrot. I\u2019m talking about my great-niece Skyeannroos Belle Padstow. She\u2019s known at home as Polly. She is a granddaughter of my half-sister, Valeria and interestingly seems to look quite like me and some of my litter mates. I think she looks even more like my Aunty Megan. Megan&#8217;s dad is my granddad and Sybil&#8217;s great-great-granddad. Of course we all have the same colouring, but it\u2019s more than that. Here are pictures of Polly on the left and me on the right \u2013 what do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/134915367_224159205843369_3696638855728018328_n-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/134915367_224159205843369_3696638855728018328_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"19282\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/134915367_224159205843369_3696638855728018328_n-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?attachment_id=19282\" class=\"wp-image-19282\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Polly<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Megan-being-weighed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Megan-being-weighed.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"18293\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Megan-being-weighed.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/2020\/12\/04\/our-house-is-insane-a-flashback-friday-4th-december-2020\/megan-being-weighed-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-18293\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Aunty Megan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wilma_150822_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wilma_150822_01-871x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10416\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wilma_150822_01.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/2015\/08\/26\/wednesday-26th-august-2015-meet-wilma\/wilma_150822_01\/\" class=\"wp-image-10416\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Wilma<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polly\u2019s family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously Polly is still living with my niece, Sybil as that\u2019s her mum and she\u2019s still very young. She\u2019s going to continue to live with her even when she gets bigger, which is lovely. Her other housemate is Basil who is one of Shadow\u2019s second litter. It\u2019s lovely as Basil is actually her uncle too as Polly\u2019s father is Leo from Shadow\u2019s fourth litter. Oh I know, it\u2019s complicated \u2013 keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Polly1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Polly1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The very pretty Polly with her ball.\" class=\"wp-image-19285\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The other thing you may have spotted, if you are a fan of Fawlty Towers is their names \u2013 Basil, Sybil and Polly. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m not in a hurry to go and stay with them! Anything could happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Socialisation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very hard for any puppy trying to get used to the big wide world at the moment. Of course, one of the best things is for their human to play them recordings of lots of strange noises and introduce them to as many different things as possible. However it\u2019s hard to go out and about. Polly has started going out when her owner does leave the house. She goes in a special carrier so she is safe and sound, as she hasn\u2019t had all her vaccinations yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/135794471_693993788150525_8764605403521870593_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/135794471_693993788150525_8764605403521870593_n-edited-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Polly in her carrier\" class=\"wp-image-19284\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I thought you\u2019d like to meet her properly. I think she looks just lovely and I can\u2019t want to meet her. I wonder if we\u2019ll really look alike as she grows up.<\/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>Wilma wants to tell you about the very pretty Polly &#8211; her great-niece. Her real name is Skyeannroos Belle Padstow, but that&#8217;s hard to remember.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,137,11],"tags":[74,99,50,51,27],"class_list":["post-19281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-breeding","category-entlebucher","category-family","tag-beethoven","tag-dartagnan","tag-entlebucher","tag-family-2","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281","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=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}