{"id":5522,"date":"2011-11-11T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2011-11-11T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:55:55","slug":"friday-11th-november-an-important-message-from-aristotle-and-a-profile-of-arnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/friday-11th-november-an-important-message-from-aristotle-and-a-profile-of-arnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 11th November &#8211; an important message from Aristotle and a profile of Arnie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe Alfie has trusted me to write his diary when it isn\u2019t supposed to be about me. Obviously I wish he were here instead of the vet but I\u2019ll do my best in his absence. I\u2019m thrilled to have been given a hand me down collar that once was Alfie\u2019s puppy collar. If it means I can stay I am happy to have hand-me-downs. I think I\u2019m still waiting for the real permission from my Master, but I\u2019m trying ever so hard to please him so that he will say yes. James says he wants me to stay and you already know that my Mistress does. I do hope they will let me. I\u2019ve even begun a little bit of my house training and pleased everyone when I dutifully went to the toilet outside on command from Alfie.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading some of the webpages on Alfie\u2019s favourites and it turns out that today is Armistice Day and I just know he would want me to mention it. Today is a particularly special one as it is the 11<sup>th<\/sup> day of the 11<sup>th<\/sup> month of the 11<sup>th<\/sup> year. I\u2019m not a very brave puppy and I don\u2019t like the idea of fighting. I think celebrating peace is a good thing to do and to think about the tragedy of all the people both military and civilian who have lost their lives because people fight. I\u2019m too young to really understand the issues, but I\u2019m going to ask the puppies if they can be silent for just a few moments later to show their respect and ask them if we could have at least a day where they don\u2019t pounce on me.<\/p>\n<p>Today I have to write about my brother Arnie. He\u2019s the super-sensitive one of my brothers. Duke and Alan are great fun and you know around them life is never dull, but Arnie is the one you want to curl up with. He\u2019s the one who started to take care of me when we were still only 13 days old and made my Mistress cry. He loves having his tummy<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aristotle-Arnie-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5523\" title=\"Aristotle &amp; Arnie 001\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aristotle-Arnie-001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aristotle and Arnie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>tickled and he will give out kisses to humans with his tail wagging madly. He absolutely knows how to melt hearts and get the best out of people. I\u2019m trying to learn from him but I\u2019m not as brave. I got my Mistress to take a couple of pictures of me with my brother Arnie. I&#8217;m on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind&nbsp;<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>I can\u2019t believe Alfie has trusted me to write his diary when it isn\u2019t supposed to be about me. Obviously I wish he were here <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/friday-11th-november-an-important-message-from-aristotle-and-a-profile-of-arnie\/\" title=\"Friday 11th November &#8211; an important message from Aristotle and a profile of Arnie\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[63,66,14,50,53],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","tag-aristotle","tag-arnold","tag-breeding","tag-entlebucher","tag-puppies","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","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=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/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=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}