{"id":442,"date":"2008-08-22T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-08-22T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:54:24","slug":"really-long-day-by-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Really Long Day by Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m Dylan. My mum has been calling me 22&#8243;-at-the-withers-Dylan-arg today in a despairing voice, and this is why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/garden.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-eklCW5tT\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-445\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/garden-150x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a picture of me. I can&#8217;t remember what I was looking at but it must have been interesting!<\/p>\n<p>I was really sad and confused as my mum only took me across the road for a second, I didn\u2019t even get time to chase any squirrels or find any golf balls! I did get chance to bark at my friend Alfie though, but I got shushed because people were still sleeping. Don\u2019t know why, there\u2019s so much to be doing!<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit confused later too because my mum put me in the car without my big sisters, and I don\u2019t get to go places without them very often. Kim was shouting all sorts of nasty things at everyone; she doesn\u2019t like being left behind! Anyway, we set off and it took aggggggeeesss to get wherever we were going. I kept waking up and having a look out of the window but no, we weren\u2019t there yet. I think mum and big-mum must have been driving in circles, I&#8217;m sure I saw the same tree three times. They were both looking a bit worried, and they were very quiet all the way there so I thought I&#8217;d better be too.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually we arrived, and there was agility! My favourite thing, I got quite excited until Mum hurried off to find something called the &#8220;secretary&#8217;s tent&#8221; and she left me in the car, so I sat and waited patiently for her. She always comes back but I do worry sometimes in case she leaves me. She came back a bit later and looked a lot happier because apparently I was going to get measured. After a bit she took me to the secretary&#8217;s tent too and had another talk with the people there, and there was a lot of sad-sorry-voices going on over my head. Mum was very unhappy again when she left the tent, she told me I was a good boy though so that&#8217;s ok! Apparently I&#8217;m supposed to get measured before I can do agility at some shows, and she&#8217;d gone all the way to this long-away show so I could get measured. But even though there were some people who could have measured me, they didn&#8217;t have any equipment with them and so I couldn&#8217;t get measured and I had to come all the way home again.<\/p>\n<p>While we were there we did get to go for a walk and I met my old friend Sammy the Spaniel, he&#8217;s loads of fun but he wasn&#8217;t allowed to play as he was supposed to be concentrating on the agility. Mum spent a lot of time talking to people who smelled a bit familiar, and it was really boring, I had to jump up at her a few times to remind her I was still there! So she let me play at dogwalks on the benches, I was really good and did my stops even though it wasn&#8217;t a proper dogwalk. Sammy was well impressed! Mum told me to have a good look around because I probably wouldn&#8217;t be going to any of the Scunthorpe or Dog Vegas shows next year because they don&#8217;t have good classes for Kim, so I was a good boy and explored everywhere I could.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, mum is really busy packing the car for our weekend away so I got a chance to sneak on and tell you what I did today, except I didn&#8217;t really get to do anything! Mum and big-mum spent a lot of time talking about how the show and the measurers had been very nice and their hands were bound by the rules, but it&#8217;s still silly that dogs as big as me have to get measured, because I&#8217;m so big I couldn&#8217;t be anything but big! That all sounded really confusing to me so I had to go to sleep again. When I woke up they were <em>still<\/em> talking about it, and mum is all worried again because I might not be able to do agility next week even though I&#8217;m entered in the classes. That would be sad, I love agility!<\/p>\n<p>Mum says we&#8217;ll be back on Monday night so I won&#8217;t be away too long. That good because I love my Mollie and she&#8217;s not coming with us tomorrow, it&#8217;s just me and Kim for the weekend. I wonder where we&#8217;re going &#8230; ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m Dylan. My mum has been calling me 22&#8243;-at-the-withers-Dylan-arg today in a despairing voice, and this is why. Here&#8217;s a picture of me. I can&#8217;t remember what I was looking at but it must have been interesting! I was really sad and confused as my mum only took me across the road for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-dylans-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-78","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}