{"id":4797,"date":"2011-09-01T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2011-09-01T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:06:24","slug":"going-to-the-fun-day-dog-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/going-to-the-fun-day-dog-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Fun Day Dog Show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/md.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">1\/9\/11<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I wonder if I&#8217;ll be seeing you all at the annual DAWGdogs Fun Day Dog Show on Sunday?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I hope so although I suspect that Helen <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">will no doubt find many excuses <\/span> have many good reasons not to take me.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The primary reason I suppose, is that I&#8217;d win all of the events and the other dogs would get jealous. Quite obviously I&#8217;d be the best at everything as I&#8217;m Top Dog.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Ahh! I can picture it now, bowing humbly on the podium whilst being showered with applause, rosettes, bonios and wolf-ette whistles from the adoring crowd, my broad shoulders hung with dozens of multi-coloured ribbons bearing such noble honours as:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The Best Dog Ever !<br \/>\nThe Dog With The Most Bonios Ever !<br \/>\nThe Most Handsome Dog Ever !<br \/>\nThe Most Modest Dog Ever !<br \/>\nThe Dog Who Barks The Loudest !<br \/>\nThe Dog With The Cleanest Ears 2011 !<br \/>\nThe Dog Who Looks Most Like Himself !<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The Dog Who You Have Least Likelihood Of Getting To Wear Fancy Dress Without Sustaining A Nasty Bite !<\/span><br \/>\nThe Dog Who Stole The Most Cakes From The Cake Stall 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 !<br \/>\nThe Dog Who Has Just Caused The Most Destruction To The Agility Ring !<br \/>\nThe Most Dastardly Dog Ever !<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The Only Dog So Unhomeable That Helen Was Forced To Keep Him Herself !<br \/>\nThe Dog Who Has Started The Most Fights !<br \/>\n<\/span>The Dog Who Has Snaffled The Most Lunches That Didn&#8217;t Belong to Him!<br \/>\nThe Dog Who Has To Wait Longest For His Dinner !<br \/>\nThe Dog Who Has To Do The Most Chores !<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Oh Dear Chores&#8230; that&#8217;s a point &#8211; if Helen does take me along I&#8217;ll probably be expected to work in my Security role, with my DAWGdog Security Hi-Viz vest on. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Manning<\/span> Dogging the gate, overseeing the parking, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">admitting my banned mates\u00a0 for a Bonio under the paw when the coast is clear<\/span>, turning away riff-raff, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">biting anyone I don&#8217;t like the look of<\/span>, that sort of thing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Hmmm,\u00a0 I don&#8217;t fancy having to work all day, especially as it is on my Bin Day and I&#8217;ll have get up very early<span style=\"color: #993300;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong> Keep Sunday Special! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Spike will be going no doubt.<br \/>\nSpike always goes because <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he fawns a lot<\/span> he is always very nice to all the other dogs and everyone who meets him and makes a fuss of them.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Smeagol<\/span> Jackson will also no doubt be going so that people can see that he is far more friendly in the flesh than his photos would have you believe.<br \/>\nHe might even meet someone who falls in love with him and offers him a home.<br \/>\nActually Helen might &#8216;accidentally&#8217; leave him behind for that very reason&#8230;..<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Maybe we could set up a petition to make sure I can come along?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>I bet if Mark was coming I&#8217;d be allowed to come to keep an eye on him and stop him getting into trouble whilst Helen was busy meeting people and dogs and judging events and handing out prizes <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and buying up all the cakes from the cake stall before anyone else gets there so that she can eat all of them herself again like she did last year.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Then again &#8230;.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">if I&#8217;m left alone at the Rescue there will be lots to do&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>My dinners and treats to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">scoff<\/span> guard&#8230;!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>The other dogs&#8217; dinners and treats to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">scoff<\/span> guard&#8230;!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Helen&#8217;s dinners and treats to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">scoff<\/span> guard&#8230;!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">A blissful few hours of peace and quiet in<br \/>\nmy big comfy bed without Spike and Jackson constantly hogging it&#8230;!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">or actually even better &#8230;!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>A blissful few hours of peace and quiet in<br \/>\nHelen&#8217;s comfy bed whilst she&#8217;s guaranteed not to be able to catch me at it!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I&#8217;m rather looking forward to it all again now!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/9\/11 I wonder if I&#8217;ll be seeing you all at the annual DAWGdogs Fun Day Dog Show on Sunday? I hope so although I suspect that Helen will no doubt find many excuses have many good reasons not to take me. The primary reason I suppose, is that I&#8217;d win all of the events and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/going-to-the-fun-day-dog-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going to the Fun Day Dog Show?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mutleys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}