{"id":19996,"date":"2021-01-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=19996"},"modified":"2021-01-22T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:00:00","slug":"gotme-day-for-alfie-flashback-friday-22nd-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/22\/gotme-day-for-alfie-flashback-friday-22nd-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"GotMe Day for Alfie Flashback – Friday 22nd January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GotMe Day for Alfie Flashback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I wanted something happy, so I\u2019ve found a GotMe Day for Alfie Flashback for you. GotMe Day is what we call Gotcha Day. It\u2019s the day we come into your family and make ourselves at home. For Alfie, it was the day Mum first introduced him to his little two seater car and discovered he had absolutely zero map reading ability. That didn\u2019t improve as he got older. I\u2019ll tell you some of what Alfie said and then come back to some of Mum\u2019s recollections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie in 2019 on his GotMe Day<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today is my GotMe Day. You may have seen humans celebrating Gotcha days being the day their pet moved in with them. Well as I\u2019m doing the celebrating, it\u2019s more of a GotMe Day. I\u2019m fully expecting to be showered with gifts. Although, to be fair I\u2019ve been fully expecting to be showered with gifts for the last twelve GotMe Days and it hasn\u2019t happened yet! From our point of view, GotMe Day is looked at with mixed feelings. Oh, please don\u2019t misunderstand, I love my Mistress dearly and have had a wonderful thirteen years with her. However, I had a very good start in life too and I can\u2019t help but look back and think fondly of my Mum and my birth humans. One of my biggest regrets about having to give up travelling is that I can\u2019t go to see them anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rose-tinted Spectacles<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now looking back it seems hard to think I was ever a ten week old pup who knew so little of how the world worked. Our Mistress says I was a very easy pup to look after and hardly put a paw wrong. While that\u2019s a nice thought, I\u2019ll leave her to see the world through rose tinted spectacles and won\u2019t remind her of any of my little misdemeanours. I\u2019m not so deluded to think I was perfect, but I\u2019m very happy that my Mistress thinks I was.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mum\u2019s Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I asked Mum what she remembered of those early days and can only conclude that the rose-tinted spectacles comment was fair. Either that or Alfie really was perfect. He slept through the night from the first night he came home. Alfie didn\u2019t cry or leave a puddle, he was just a good little boy. He pounced on his food bowl with excitement when it was filled and occasionally broke off from eating to pounce on his cushion. He never liked early morning walks, but would always go out with great enthusiasm later in the day \u2013 unless it was raining, when he preferred to stay indoors. Mum says she still misses him every day and treasures the memories of the times they had together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m off to try to live up to the very high standards that Alfie set<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Wilma has a GotMe Day for Alfie Flashback, celebrating that wonderful day in 2006 when Alfie came into Mum’s life.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[109,50,53],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entlebucher","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","tag-puppies","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","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=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/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=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}