{"id":26230,"date":"2022-04-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26230"},"modified":"2022-04-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T05:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-life-saturday-16th-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/16\/this-is-the-life-saturday-16th-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the life – Saturday 16th April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the life. Hi, everyone, it\u2019s Aristotle here. Wilma said she\u2019ll be too busy with her friend coming to visit so I could do the diary today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many of you know, I\u2019ve had elbow dysplasia since was about four months old. We think it was caused when my birth mum, Shadow, slam dunked me across the paving. She didn\u2019t want me to live with Mum and was trying to make sure I knew my place. Anyway, I don\u2019t bear that much of a grudge. I\u2019ve not really complained much over the years. Mum has worked hard with me to manage any discomfort. I\u2019ve got a wobble cushion that I used when I was young to build up muscle and I\u2019ve always worked very hard to keep my back legs in shape. Until I tore my cruciate ligament I could walk on my back two legs very well indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swimming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Swimming really helped and I\u2019m pleased that Mum is sorting for me to go back to hydrotherapy as, with getting older, I need it all the more. It was a bad move to injure my back legs and it does mean now that some days all my legs hurt at once, which I can tell you is no fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\u2019ve gone for walks away from home, Mum has always taken me in the car to places that I can walk on grass. To be honest though, I often found going out a bit of a chore as my legs could hurt quite soon and I\u2019d want to go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My garden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It all goes to mean that I appreciate the garden even more than the others do, which is how I became a bit of a gardening sort of a dog. With our new garden, I really am living my best life and I love it. There are some paths, but mostly it is soft under paw and there are sunny patches and shady patches to rest in and so many interesting things to smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FYI the fox seems to have an upset stomach. Mum thinks it\u2019s only from the rotten apples, but she\u2019s being very firm that we can\u2019t eat the poo. She\u2019s clearing up and washing the patches she finds just in case he\u2019s got a bug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the garden is changing every day at the moment, so I thought I\u2019d show you a few photos of my favourite parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a great weekend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All my love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

This is the life – says Aristotle. He is really enjoying his garden and wants to show you some of the good bits at the moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,113],"tags":[63,12,118],"class_list":["post-26230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-health","tag-aristotle","tag-gardening","tag-health","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}