Poor Izzy. I feel so sad for her. She had her scan yesterday and it turns out she isn\u2019t pregnant. She\u2019s tried so hard at both of her last two seasons with no luck. It\u2019s worse than that. Three seasons ago she was supposed to have travelled to mate, but that was when all the first lockdown restrictions started. The very day she was supposed to be travelling to Belgium everything stopped. Poor old Izzy, things are not going her way and it\u2019s so unfair. We\u2019d just like to send her lots of love and sniffs and tell her we\u2019re thinking of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dog breeding is such hard work when you do everything properly. There are all these strays who manage to have puppies but not us. There we are, having all our health tests and all the special care we get to make sure we\u2019re really fit and healthy. Then many of us don\u2019t manage to have puppies for one reason or another, like me with my heart murmur. Anyway, we\u2019re just hoping that Izzy will try again at her next season and find fourth time lucky. I do hope she has some fun in the meantime though, it\u2019s hard going through the disappointment so now it\u2019s time she let her fur down for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m finding with all this rain there seems to be a permanent smell of wet dog everywhere I go. It may actually be me of course, as it does seem to follow me around. I\u2019m ready for a bit of sunshine and Shadow certainly says it makes her old bones feel better when it\u2019s sunny. Maybe today won\u2019t be quite so wet, but I\u2019m not counting on it. I might just have to get used to the smell instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wilma has heard from poor Izzy following her scan and she hasn’t been given good news. This dog breeding lark is not easy.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-23543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-breeding","tag-breeding","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543","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=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}