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Alfie's Diary Paperback – April 21, 2015

by Rosemary J Kind (Author)
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Alfie Dog, the founder of the Pet Dogs’ Democratic Party and champion of the rights of the underdog, brings you ‘Alfie’s Diary – Dog enough not to be human, human enough to be a pet.’ Alfie has written his diary as an internet blog since the age of 10 weeks old, developing a growing, loyal reader base and has now pulled together the best of the first year of his diary in book form. His diary presents an entertaining and thought provoking dog’s eye view of the world.

His book follows his considerations of career options for dogs and his concerns that discrimination legislation needs to be extended to cover his species. He dismisses the usual occupations for Swiss Mountain Dogs, based primarily on his dislike for both bad weather and hard work and instead sets himself up as the self styled leader of his own political party. Alfie is not slow to spot opportunities and even at this tender age has identified marketing opportunities including his own range of T shirts, with slogans such as ‘Isn’t everyone wearing dog hair this season?’, ‘Minimum wage for working dogs’ and ‘Every dog must have his say’.

Whilst growing up in Belgium he has travelled around a number of European countries. His unique blend of observational humour and satire enables him to highlight the peculiarities of the different nationalities of humans that he finds in everyday life around him and he is more than happy to comment on their idiosyncrasies.

Alfie is depressed by the state of education of ‘the dog on the street’. He is concerned that most of his fellow kind are simply trained to obey and are not provided with the tools to think for themselves. He is endearing, playful and not afraid to poke fun at everything and everyone around him, including his owners and is certainly not afraid to laugh at himself. Sadly, Alfie is never destined to have puppies of his own and he talks frankly and at times candidly about his disappointment and about the medical problems that have caused this situation. In researching his family tree he expresses concern about the close relationship of some of his ancestors.

Behind all of this Alfie talks about all the normal processes of growing up in what he regards as a slightly crazy household, together with the insecurities and emotions faced by any young puppy.

Through his revelations, his humour and his pathos, Alfie will make you laugh and at times make you cry. Most of all he will leave you wanting to meet him and find out whether the Pet Dogs’ Democratic Party has had any of its policies adopted by the other political parties now that he has moved back to England.
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    April 21, 2015
  4. Dimensions
    5.06 x 0.62 x 7.81 inches
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    1909894265
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1909894266
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About the Author

Rosemary J. Kind is quite clearly mad. She has now co-authored three books with her dog and assists him with the technology for writing his diary. She is the only person we know who has called her business after her dog, and she is utterly devoted to developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog breed in the UK, having first come across it in 1998 in the Encyclopaedia of Dogs.

She has published five books in her own right including one non-fiction book 'Negotiation Skills for Lawyers', one book of poetry 'Poems for Life', two novels 'The Appearance of Truth' and 'The Lifetracer' and a humorous look at travelling on the London Underground 'Lovers Take up Less Space'. She lives in North Yorkshire with her long-suffering husband and three dogs.

Alfie Dog is an Entlebucher Mountain Dog. He was born in Belgium in 2005 and his full name is Einstein van de Tiendenschuur. Although he lived in Belgium for the first two years of his life he moved to the United Kingdom in 2008 and has lived in North Yorkshire ever since. He started writing his diary at the age of 10 weeks and, with the exception of the odd day, when his human was in hospital and he couldn't find the password, he has written it every day since. You can find his diary at www.alfiedog.me.uk He is also the author of the novel 'Alfie's Woods', which he co-wrote with his human and the Pet Dogs Democratic Party Manifesto.

He lives with Shadow (Aisha Princess of Beauty) who, at the time of writing, is mother to 18 of the 50 Entlebuchers in the UK and due to have her final litter this year. His other companion is Aristotle, Shadow's wayward son, who terrorises Alfie whilst idolising him at the same time.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alfie Dog Limited (April 21, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1909894265
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1909894266
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.62 x 7.81 inches
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Rosemary J Kind writes because she has to. You could take almost anything away from her except her pen and paper. Failing to stop after the book that everyone has in them, she has gone on to publish books in both non-fiction and fiction, the latter including novels, humour, short stories and poetry. She also regularly produces magazine articles in a number of areas and writes regularly for the dog press.

As a child she was desolate when at the age of 10 her then teacher would not believe that her poem based on ‘Stig in the Dump’ was her own work and she stopped writing poetry for several years as a result. She was persuaded to continue by the invitation to earn a little extra pocket money by ‘assisting’ others to produce the required poems for English homework!

Always one to spot an opportunity, she started school newspapers and went on to begin providing paid copy to her local newspaper at the age of 16.

For twenty years she followed a traditional business career, before seeing the error of her ways and leaving it all behind to pursue her writing full-time.

She spends her life discussing her plots with the characters in her head and her faithful dogs, who always put the opposing arguments when there are choices to be made.

Always willing to take on challenges that sensible people regard as impossible, she set up the short story download site Alfie Dog Fiction in 2012. During the six years the site ran, she built it to be one of the largest such sites in the world.

Her hobby is developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog in the UK and when she brought her beloved Alfie back from Belgium he was only the tenth in the country.

She started writing Alfie’s Diary as an internet blog the day Alfie arrived to live with her, intending to continue for a year or two. It has now run for over fifteen years and is repeatedly named as one of the top ten pet blogs in the UK.

She now lives in Warwickshire with her husband and dogs Shadow, Wilma and Aristotle, the latter being Shadow’s wayward son.

She hopes you will enjoy reading her work.

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