{"id":26709,"date":"2022-08-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26709"},"modified":"2022-08-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T05:00:00","slug":"a-coat-for-shadow-wednesday-24th-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/a-coat-for-shadow-wednesday-24th-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coat for Shadow – Wednesday 24th August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A coat for Shadow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We were asked by the lovely people at www.hyperdrug.co.uk<\/a> if we would consider trying a coat for Shadow. She was thrilled to have the opportunity as she doesn\u2019t normally get involved in product testing, or anything else much these days. She thought it was an excellent idea. She\u2019s been having quite a few problems with her own coat and she does tend to feel the cold more these days. We might be mountain dogs but our systems still don\u2019t cope with the aging process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ancol Stormguard coat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all we had fun measuring her for her Stormguard coat.<\/a> We, as a breed, are long in the body and Shadow was quite insistent that I measure her back length several times to make sure there wasn\u2019t a bottom end sticking out to get cold. There is a guide to measurements, so it wasn\u2019t difficult and we worked out she needed an XL even though she\u2019s quite short in the leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First impressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When it arrived we couldn\u2019t wait to open it. We always know when things are for us as they have that wonderful \u2018pet shop smell\u2019 that gets us so excited. Shadow absolutely loves the colour. The outside is waterproof, which is good for the \u2018normal\u2019 English weather. The lining is the most wonderful soft fleece. It made me quite jealous. The coat is well designed with holes for your lead at the back if you wear a harness when walking. That bit zips up too, so there isn\u2019t anywhere for the rain to get in if you aren\u2019t using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perfect fit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As you can see, I had done the measuring right and the coat is a completely perfect fit. Mum had one concern about the elastic that goes around the back legs. Mum was worried that with the muscle wastage that Shadow had she might find it uncomfortable, but Shadow said it was fine and she really appreciated how easy it was to put on and take off. She didn\u2019t have to try lifting legs to put them through holes or anything like that. Once on, Shadow found it very easy to move about in and said she\u2019d be happy wearing it out and about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall we\u2019d say definitely worth a try if you feel the cold and don\u2019t like getting wet. Thank you www.hyperdrug.co.uk<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ps there are some great things on their website, so you dogs out there might want to use looking at it as an opportunity to put together your lists for Santa Paws. You really can\u2019t start early enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

We had a coat for Shadow to try out and now are ready to tell you all about what we thought of it. Shadow won’t take it off.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-26709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-test","tag-product-test","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709","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=26709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}