{"id":5706,"date":"2011-12-15T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T08:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2011-12-15T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T08:18:41","slug":"thursday-15th-december-2011-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/thursday-15th-december-2011-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 15th December 2011 &#8211; New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The little runt is growing up. Aristotle had to be weighed for his worming tablets yesterday and he is now an incredible 9.3kg. At this rate he will be heavier than me before you know it. The only problem is that as yet he can\u2019t go downstairs. It means my Mistress has to carry him when there are stairs. In most houses that doesn\u2019t present a problem but in our house there are stairs up to the office from the kitchen and there are stairs down to the back door. It means carrying him down 14 stairs every time he needs to go out and that\u2019s a lot of carrying. When he was small it wasn\u2019t a problem but a wriggling ten kilogram lump can be very difficult to keep hold of.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s photo had to be Megan. She decided to pose in my Mistress\u2019s reindeer antlers<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5707\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aristotle-0012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5707\" title=\"Aristotle 001\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aristotle-0012-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan the red nosed reindeer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>yesterday. To be fair I think they quite suit her. She said she wouldn\u2019t mind wearing them to go out in to see how people react, although I suspect the most likely result would be that they would fall off into the mud as soon as she started running anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Because Aristotle is still peeing much too often at times through the day, my Mistress had to get him to do a urine sample for her to take to the vet. It was quite funny watching her chasing him round the garden with a little pot.<\/p>\n<p>My Mistress has already reviewed her last year\u2019s new year\u2019s resolutions to see how many she has succeeded against. I said given there are two weeks of the year left wasn\u2019t she being a little premature? Who\u2019s to say that she won\u2019t find the courage to get on an airplane again in next two weeks? She made ten for the year and achieved five and two halves! She is counting success as six and therefore better than being half successful. She has abandoned flying from this year\u2019s list. I think she has given up hope. However she has set some fairly encouraging ones including getting our breed numbers to thirty in the country this year and we\u2019re right behind her on that one. I wonder what I should set as my resolutions. I\u2019ll give it some thought during my next nap.<\/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>The little runt is growing up. Aristotle had to be weighed for his worming tablets yesterday and he is now an incredible 9.3kg. 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