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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nactivities I can take part in when I grow up. I think I want to try my paw at obedience, but I\u2019m not ruling out flyball or agilty. By the time I\u2019m grown up I hope we\u2019ll have our interim breed standard too and then I might be able to take part in the main competition. I\u2019ve got a long way to go before that though. I think the best bit for me this year will be to tug at my coat every few steps round all the stands and ask for new toys, beds, bowls, leads and every accessory a puppy around town could ever want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s really good of Alfie to let me tell you about the competition. Anyway, on Saturday Alfie is going to ask you five questions. You need to find the answers (he says he\u2019ll tell you where to look) and then email them to him at alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a> by Tuesday next week and I will get to draw out one of the correct entries and tell them they have won a pair of tickets to any day of Crufts \u2013 how exciting is that? What\u2019s even better is that if you don\u2019t win in next week\u2019s draw there will be another chance after that. Don\u2019t worry if you can\u2019t visit the blog on Saturday, the questions will still be there to look at right up to the deadline for entering. The girls have told me it\u2019s a fantastic day out and they had great fun meeting lots of children as well as adults. One little boy spent ages with his arms wrapped around Megan and she just knows that when he grows up he\u2019s going to want a dog just like her. She was so proud to have been able to help him find his perfect dog. You can buy tickets if you don\u2019t win. If you love dogs then you\u2019ll love Crufts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can tell you about my puppy class now. We go to one that is part of the Kennel Club Good Citizen Scheme. It\u2019s really very good and both Shadow and Megan love their classes too. I\u2019m hoping to move up to the classes they are in soon, but I\u2019m not sure how it would work if we were in the same one as My Mistress couldn\u2019t take us at the same time. At the moment I\u2019m in puppy classes. It\u2019s sort of the \u2018pre-school\u2019 for dogs. I\u2019ve got a new friend called George. He\u2019s really tiny, but we got on very well. Then there are two puppies learning to be guide dogs. I\u2019m very impressed by their determination to do something useful with their lives. I thought I would have the best name of any dog there, but there\u2019s one called Hemmingway and I thought that was rather good. I asked my Mistress when I\u2019m a stud dog if I could be father to a puppy called Hemmingway, but she says that is getting a little ahead of myself. You\u2019ll be pleased to know I did almost everything I was told and didn\u2019t misbehave at all. It was tremendous fun and I came home totally exhausted. I can\u2019t wait for next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\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":"