{"id":9699,"date":"2014-12-17T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=9699"},"modified":"2014-12-17T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T06:00:42","slug":"wednesday-17th-december-2014-going-out-on-a-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/wednesday-17th-december-2014-going-out-on-a-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 17th December 2014 &#8211; Going Out on a High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as though Shadow is planning to go out on a high. I\u2019m awaiting confirmation today, but my Mistress thinks that her season started yesterday. Her normal best mating days are days 10,11 and 12 \u2013 and if yesterday counts as number 1 then day 10 is\u2026 yes you\u2019ve guessed \u2013 Christmas Day! Now the timing all gets a bit complicated. The best way to make sure she is absolutely ready is to have a progesterone test, but of course vets and laboratories aren\u2019t open over Christmas. My Mistress is thinking her best bet is to be in Switzerland by the afternoon of the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> so they can get one done there, hopefully before everywhere closes for Christmas &#8211; or Weihnachten as we are now calling it in our house in preparation for her trip. Shadow was always going to be the sort of dog to make an impact and she\u2019s certainly living up to those ideas. It means we won\u2019t get a Christmas dinner, which is not something I\u2019m overly thrilled by, but I\u2019m guessing we\u2019ll all still get to eat, even if it\u2019s beer and pizza. It is going to mean my Mistress missing my Master\u2019s birthday and she\u2019s really very sorry to be doing that, but as he can\u2019t go with her there is not a great deal she can do. Of course Shadow may get up today and say it\u2019s all a false alarm and she\u2019s not ready, but in her heart my Mistress doesn\u2019t think there is a great deal of likelihood of that.<\/p>\n<p>I had my last swimming session for a couple of weeks yesterday. Now I can put my paws up and relax. Having said that I don\u2019t dislike it too much these days, although I can\u2019t see choosing to do it if I weren\u2019t made to go.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It looks as though Shadow is planning to go out on a high. I\u2019m awaiting confirmation today, but my Mistress thinks that her season started <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/wednesday-17th-december-2014-going-out-on-a-high\/\" title=\"Wednesday 17th December 2014 &#8211; Going Out on a High\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[14,27,43],"class_list":["post-9699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-dog-breeding","tag-breeding","tag-shadow","tag-switzerland","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699","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=9699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}