{"id":5653,"date":"2011-12-03T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2011-12-03T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T08:17:33","slug":"saturday-3rd-december-2011-a-small-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/03\/saturday-3rd-december-2011-a-small-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 3rd December 2011 – a small celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve got to love life around a small puppy. Yesterday there was great celebration as he managed to poo outside for the first time. Sadly since then he\u2019s gone off that idea again and we are back to clearing up, but it\u2019s a start. I\u2019m a bit late writing this morning as firstly I don\u2019t feel awfully well this morning. Nothing specific, just a bit tired and wanting a sleep, while Ari on the other paw has woken up full of beans and is in need of constant monitoring as he bounds around the office. I do find writing quite hard when he jumps on me half way through a sentence.<\/p>\n

Apparently I have to babysit outside in a while as my Mistress wants to sort out her car and put everything in it out of the old one. While she does that, someone has to keep an eye that Ari doesn\u2019t eat more than his fair share of the carnation plants. It\u2019s not as bad as it sounds. They weren\u2019t going to flower anymore this year, although I was in trouble when my Mistress asked if I\u2019d been joining in and I said \u201cWho me?\u201d all innocence but with a carnation bud trailing out of the side of my mouth like Ermintrude the cow in The Magic Roundabout.<\/p>\n

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A break from tail chasing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was a puppy I would pounce on my cushion to introduce that element of surprise in between eating mouthfuls of my food. With Ari he takes a similar approach with tail chasing. To be honest he makes me quite giddy. I have largely given up tail chasing as a pointless and sometimes painful pursuit, but I guess he\u2019s yet to learn that. I took today\u2019s photo just after he\u2019d finished chasing his tail and was wondering what to do next. It turned out that try to climb on me was next.<\/p>\n

Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK –https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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