I notice that Aristotle avoided telling you about his behaviour last Friday! Aristotle gives the impression of being a big confident dog, but he\u2019s a mummy\u2019s boy and the biggest coward out there. When I say \u2018mummy\u2019 I\u2019m referring to our Mistress who he thinks of as his mum and not Shadow who he sees more as a playmate. Anyway, he was out for a lovely walk with our Mistress on Friday. The sun was low in the sky and there were few clouds to spoil it. My Mistress was listening to the ending of the book she\u2019s been listening to so was engrossed. Ari was trotting along on the extending lead quite happily. Suddenly and for no apparent reason, Ari started to race along the path parallel with the hedge his hackles raised and clearly very upset. My Mistress lurched forwards, fortunately regained her balance and managed to catch up and pull him to a stop. Her first thought was that he\u2019d seen a rabbit, but he was too upset for that. She looked everywhere to see what huge animal must have scared him. Of course we don\u2019t actually get large scary wild animals around here, but from his reaction she could only think it was something like that. Then she saw it; a black dog of Ari\u2019s size and shape standing by the hedge. As Ari was walked forward so did the dog. Ari couldn\u2019t take his eyes of it. He was still upset. My Mistress gently and firmly told him everything was ok and he should carry on \u2013 The dog was his shadow running just ahead of him and because of the angle of the sun was not stretched or distorted so to Ari it looked very real. He was a bit sheepish after he\u2019d calmed down and stopped worrying, but he said he got quite a fright.<\/p>\n
Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK –https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"