{"id":6589,"date":"2012-08-20T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T23:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2012-08-20T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T23:05:53","slug":"monday-20th-august-2012-any-time-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/20\/monday-20th-august-2012-any-time-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 20th August 2012 &#8211; Any time now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are waiting to see when Shadow will start her season. It really could be any day now. Her last two have been 28 weeks and six days, which would be today and 29 weeks and a day, which would be Wednesday. However, as we all know by now that is no real measure of what is going to happen and there is really no need to hold your breath. Knowing Shadow she will wait until we are least expecting it. Ari was sniffing round her on Saturday but I\u2019ve not had the urge to get that close and yesterday she had an upset stomach and said she didn\u2019t want to be around anyone so we left her alone. I don\u2019t want to start getting too excited after the earlier escapade with Megan. I\u2019ve learnt that getting excited before anything actually happens is a complete waste of energy, so I\u2019m saving myself until we have something definite. It does mean that my Mistress is working flat out, still trying to catch up from her holiday in July so that she doesn\u2019t get further behind with her work while she\u2019s away. My job is to be there to calm and soothe her as necessary. It\u2019s a tough job but somebody has to do it and it\u2019s no good my complaining as one of the others would be only too willing to take my role.<\/p>\n<p>After a prolonged time of being home to half the spider population, the summerhouse has been declared open once again. My Mistress went out armed with the vacuum cleaner yesterday and sucked the spiders to extinction. In a moment of foresight she put the cleaner bag straight in the outside bin so that they didn\u2019t wreak revenge by climbing out when she brought the vacuum cleaner back indoors.<\/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<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\/\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>We are waiting to see when Shadow will start her season. It really could be any day now. Her last two have been 28 weeks <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/20\/monday-20th-august-2012-any-time-now\/\" title=\"Monday 20th August 2012 &#8211; Any time now\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14,50,53,27],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-breeding","tag-breeding","tag-entlebucher","tag-puppies","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","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=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/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=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}