Alfie’s birthday
Today is Alfie’s birthday, so I’m going to be spending time remembering my dear friend and mentor. Mum thinks about him every day and still wears the ring with his pawprints on a chain around her neck. His is the picture we see when we come through the back door. Mum always says how lucky she was to have him as her introduction to our breed. He was such a lovely boy that he made it easy for Mum to learn about training us, and the ways we think, without one of us making life too difficult along the way. When Alfie moved to live with Mum, she really didn’t know a great deal about training a dog. Quite honestly, some days I wonder if anything has changed. Anyway, she seems to think she’s learnt a little about our ways in the last nineteen years.
Dad thinks she’s learnt quite a lot about training him in that time too, but I wouldn’t dare comment on that one.
Puppy pen
The extension to the puppy pen has arrived. This is where the implications of the slope of our garden become very obvious. Mum now has to find ways to ensure the panels are stable and secure, even if they are on an overall slope in two different directions. Fortunately someone said they had used U shape pegs to ensure that an extended pen was secure, so Mum is going to do something similar I think. At least it’s up, so there is a fox free area of garden and Mum will start to make the inside interesting for play and training. I’ll take a photo soon for you.
Watching the weather
Mum and I are checking the overnight temperatures every day at the moment. The lemons are going to have to move indoors any day now. Mum thinks they probably need to come in by Sunday at the latest, but she’s still hoping the forecast might improve slightly so we can delay.
Love
Wilma
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