{"id":8908,"date":"2012-02-05T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T02:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2012-02-05T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T02:35:34","slug":"the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/05\/the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"The dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But enough bad news. Since it appears we&#8217;re going to the dogs in any case, we might as well enjoy ourselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204652904577193243904964630.html\" target=\"_blank\">Agility competitions<\/a> for pipsqueak pooches.\n<li>A writer whose specialty is dogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/01\/service-dog-saves-life-arizona-bethe-benne_n_1248293.html?ref=canada&#038;ir=Canada\" target=\"_blank\">is saved by one<\/a>. (H\/T for this one!)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pawnation.com\/2012\/02\/03\/42-st-bernards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forty-two St. Bernards<\/a>. Plus one tot. Adorable, but I&#8217;d hate to be the one who had to clean <i>that<\/i> yard. (H\/T M.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you may remember the foster dog who came to me in need of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/09\/29\/defective-dog-dilemma-and-questions-of-identity\/\">surgery to correct a rare birth defect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he got his operation courtesy of our wonderful local vet, went into a prison-pet program for training, graduated (with honors, I&#8217;m sure \ud83d\ude42 ). And is now in his forever home. That&#8217;s him there in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/02\/05\/the-dogs\/bubbainforeverhome\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/BubbaInForeverHome-450x327.jpg\" alt=\"Former foster dog Buddy playing in the snow with his new sibling\" title=\"BubbaInForeverHome\" width=\"450\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8909\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But enough bad news. Since it appears we&#8217;re going to the dogs in any case, we might as well enjoy ourselves. Agility competitions for pipsqueak pooches. A writer whose specialty is dogs is saved by one. (H\/T for this one!) Forty-two St. Bernards. Plus one tot. Adorable, but I&#8217;d hate to be the one who had to clean that yard. (H\/T M.) And you may remember the foster dog who came to me in need of surgery to correct a rare birth defect. Well, he got his operation courtesy of our wonderful local vet, went into a prison-pet program for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/05\/the-dogs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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-8908","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\/8908","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=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}