I\u2019ve had to listen to Shadow remembering life as a pup. You know that thing where some elderly folk try convincing you of how much harder life was in their day \u2013 that! I made the mistake of telling her that Babeli\u2019s pups have all just gone to their new homes. They have been so well looked after and have a wonderful start in life. Now, I know for a fact that Shadow also had a wonderful start in life. She was very much loved and spoiled. She grew up with her three brothers until she was eight weeks old and then moved to live with Alfie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That didn\u2019t stop her. \u201cI spend the first weeks of life in the cupboard under the stairs,\u2019 Shadow said. I guess that makes her a bit like Harry Potter. The truth is that she did start life in a basket with her mum and brothers in a cupboard under the stairs \u2013 it was warm and clean and cosy and quiet. At that point Shadow could neither see nor hear, so it was an ideal place for her mum to have a nest, safe and comfortable away from the hubbub of the house. Mum went to visit her there on day one and again a few weeks later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, Aristotle didn\u2019t want to be left out. Unfortunately for him when he was saying how undersized he was at birth his mother (Shadow) just glared at him. She asked how he thought it had been for her, having to carry eight of them and go through giving birth. When we were on our own he just shrugged and said to me, \u201cIs it any wonder that I\u2019m closer to my human Mum than my canine one?\u201d Shadow just isn\u2019t the maternal type, which is funny given she\u2019s had so many children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shadow has been remembering her life as a pup. She may have a slightly distorted view of things, but Wilma is at least trying to humour her.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,53,27],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","tag-puppies","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828","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=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}