{"id":4605,"date":"2011-07-26T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oneandonly.me.uk\/alfie\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:27:59","slug":"tuesday-26th-july-2011-shadow-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/tuesday-26th-july-2011-shadow-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 26th July 2011 &#8211; Shadow here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Shadow here. I\u2019ve never written anything before so please forgive me if I make some mistakes. Alfie said as what was happening was all about me that I should tell you about it in person. I don\u2019t know where to start. I never thought it would turn out like this. When my Mistress said would I like to have a family of my own I thought it would be easy. I\u2019m a very caring sort of dog and bringing up puppies is something I would love to do. That\u2019s how I came to be meeting Rino. Even before I got that far I had to have lots of tests done to make sure I was healthy. Some of those weren\u2019t so nice. There was one for my eyes where I didn\u2019t like the vet so I gave him a big scratch on his arm. Then there was the one where they took blood and James nearly fainted. I got through all those though and was given a special paper saying I could meet Rino.<\/p>\n<p>It was exciting packing for this trip. I\u2019d seen a picture of Rino and he is a very handsome bloke. I really thought things couldn\u2019t get any better. The journey here all went well and we arranged to meet him. That\u2019s when things stopped being quite what I had imagined. How did dogs not become extinct years ago? If they had told me what was involved to become pregnant I think I would have adopted instead of tried to have my own. Rino had barely said hello when he started doing things that I just hadn\u2019t bargained on. I won\u2019t go into detail in case there are any children reading. My Mistress has to hold me in position so |I wouldn\u2019t try to pull away from him. That would have hurt both of us.<\/p>\n<p>Rino was very sweet and he kept giving me little kisses and asking if I was ok. I was happy to go and see him again the following day and we played together a little bit then.<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear, I\u2019ve just seen my Mistress packing the car up to leave without me. I\u2019m going to have to go so I can say goodbye. To be honest I\u2019m feeling a bit choked up to. I\u2019ll see if Alfie will let me tell you the rest of the story tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind <a href=\"mailto:alfie@alfiedog.me.uk\">alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It\u2019s Shadow here. I\u2019ve never written anything before so please forgive me if I make some mistakes. Alfie said as what was happening was all <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/tuesday-26th-july-2011-shadow-here\/\" title=\"Tuesday 26th July 2011 &#8211; Shadow here\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,17],"tags":[14,27,43,16],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","category-travel-2","tag-breeding","tag-shadow","tag-switzerland","tag-travel","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}