{"id":43426,"date":"2021-04-10T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T23:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=43426"},"modified":"2021-04-10T20:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T03:01:06","slug":"well-if-this-isnt-the-week-for-visiting-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/10\/well-if-this-isnt-the-week-for-visiting-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, if this isn&#8217;t the week for visiting dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s not so much a guest as a foundling. I picked her up off the highway, where she was dashing to greet each passing car (looking for her owner, I expect, but clearly without a shred of street smarts). Fortunately all the drivers stopped in time and I was able to persuade her to jump into the KIA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-02-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-02-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-02-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-02-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LostDog_041021-02.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got tags with her name, owner&#8217;s name, home address, and phone number, and you can see from her mirror-shiny coat she&#8217;s well cared-for.  But nobody&#8217;s answering either the phone or the door at her house.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s made herself quite at home here, though. Found Ava&#8217;s remaining toys and and has been squeaking and shredding and playing keep-away and tug-o-war ever since. Also throwing all the cushions off the couch and trying to find the source of that enticing cat aroma. She&#8217;s either going full-tilt or collapsing into a dead sleep. One or the other. No in-between. The second picture there isn&#8217;t blurry because I&#8217;m a crappy photographer; it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s shaking that little stuffed monkey hard enough to &#8220;kill&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>I confess that for a few moments out there by the highway I looked at her sweet self and thought, &#8220;This is kismet. The fates have brought me a little bully girl just when I was starting to think doggie thoughts again.&#8221; But the angel on my other shoulder reminded me that somebody out there loves her and will miss her soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s not so much a guest as a foundling. I picked her up off the highway, where she was dashing to greet each passing car (looking for her owner, I expect, but clearly without a shred of street smarts). Fortunately all the drivers stopped in time and I was able to persuade her to jump into the KIA. She&#8217;s got tags with her name, owner&#8217;s name, home address, and phone number, and you can see from her mirror-shiny coat she&#8217;s well cared-for. But nobody&#8217;s answering either the phone or the door at her house. She&#8217;s made herself quite at&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/10\/well-if-this-isnt-the-week-for-visiting-dogs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well, if this isn&#8217;t the week for visiting dogs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43426","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\/43426","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=43426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43433,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43426\/revisions\/43433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}