I have been chalking the days off on the wall of the kennel. Not just counting the days off to going home, but how many days into her season Megan is. She was supposed to be ready to mate at day 12 or 13. Shadow was ready on days 8 and 9. Yesterday for Megan was day 18 and still nothing happens! That is not strictly true \u2013 my Mistress got completely lost on her way back from visiting Megan\u2019s boyfriend because the motorway was closed. That and Megan had a date by candlelight. What else does the poor boy have to do? Actually the way Megan told the events of yesterday she\u2019d like the poor boy to get on with it now. She had enough of playing games and is ready to get it over and done with. It\u2019s her last day today so I\u2019m crossing my paws. Actually after what my Mistress said, I think them not mating yesterday was a blessing. You know how sometimes she has slightly crazy ideas? Well yesterday was \u2018Liberation Day\u2019 in the Netherlands. In Dutch they call the day Bevrijdinsdag \u2013 which begins with the letter \u2018B\u2019. If you\u2019ve been following the diary for the last few weeks you may be able to guess where this is going. My Mistress had decided that if the puppies were conceived yesterday she would call Megan\u2019s first born Bevrijdinsdag in honour of the day. If it had been a girl I suppose it could have been shortened to Bev, and to be fair the same could have happened if it was a boy, though personally I\u2019ve never been hot on Beverley as boys\u2019 name. The worst part was that no one in England would be able to either spell or pronounce the dog\u2019s name. It\u2019s bad enough for most people that we\u2019ve got a Flemish kennel name and house name, though I\u2019m rather proud of them.<\/p>\n
The other piece of news is that from tomorrow for a short time we are going to be a five dog household and the boys will be in the majority. Duke, or Amigo as he seems to be responding more happily to, is being picked up on the way back tomorrow. I just hope he isn\u2019t supposed to be sharing my bed.<\/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":"