{"id":16802,"date":"2014-03-20T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16802"},"modified":"2014-03-20T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:05:11","slug":"going-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/going-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning on slowly working my way back to reality after the trip to Nicaragua. But no sooner had I returned than a client emergency (or several) came up. Reality caught me and wrestled me to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you I owe emails may have to wait a while. (But then, knowing me and my bad email habits, you&#8217;re used to that, aren&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, have some dogs. And a cat or two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beloved stray <a href=\"http:\/\/halopets.com\/freekibble\/donation148.html\" target=\"_blank\">gets a home<\/a> after being hit by a car.\n<li>Dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2014\/03\/04\/3356697\/dog-helps-in-rescue-of-its-owner.html\" target=\"_blank\">saves her human<\/a> after a snowmobile accident.\n<li>And while we&#8217;re still in this frigid winter (for another day or two yet!), another dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20140306\/NEWS\/140309160\/1707\" target=\"_blank\">helps save its human<\/a> after its human saves it from thin ice. (H\/T to furrydoc for the last two)\n<li>On the less positive side of dogdom: I agree with Jennifer. It&#8217;s not Mickey&#8217;s fault he was badly raised, but the effort to save him after what he did is foolish. <a href=\"http:\/\/injennifershead.com\/?p=5848&#038;cpage=1#comment-31207\" target=\"_blank\">This pit bull should die<\/a>.\n<li>The CBSNews.com report is loaded with inaccuracies. But its main claim is absolutely, happily true: A $100 donation left by the fugitive Barefoot Bandit &#8220;for the care of animals&#8221; back in 2010 has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/barefoot-bandit-items-raise-1725-for-animal-shelter\/\" target=\"_blank\">raised over $1,700<\/a> for an animal shelter. That&#8217;s thanks to the good thinking and good heart of the veterinarian, who got the money back from the police nearly four years later.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And for some mindless entertainment, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hkg_j7Hvldg\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Home Alone<\/i><\/a> with Kaiser the cat and Nana the Border Collie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Hkg_j7Hvldg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning on slowly working my way back to reality after the trip to Nicaragua. But no sooner had I returned than a client emergency (or several) came up. Reality caught me and wrestled me to the ground. Those of you I owe emails may have to wait a while. (But then, knowing me and my bad email habits, you&#8217;re used to that, aren&#8217;t you?) Meanwhile, have some dogs. And a cat or two. Beloved stray gets a home after being hit by a car. Dog saves her human after a snowmobile accident. And while we&#8217;re still in this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/going-to-the-dogs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going to the dogs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}