{"id":9621,"date":"2012-04-01T10:26:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:26:47","slug":"sweetie-is-a-westerner-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/sweetie-is-a-westerner-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweetie is a westerner now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/v5YfH10F8iI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday was a long, grueling day for Sweetie, the deaf cattle dog. She arrived 2-1\/2 hours before her flight from the east coast, was on the plane for nearly nine hours (including stopovers), then had a three-hour drive from the Portland, OR, airport in the dark and the rain. (The humans were tired, but Sweetie handled it all in style.)<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s at my house and doing well so far. Near as anyone can tell, her problem behaviors develop only after she bonds with you and decides you&#8217;re &#8220;her&#8221; human. Then she takes on the duty of &#8220;protecting&#8221; you against everything, including things you don&#8217;t want to be protected from. <\/p>\n<p>In a few weeks, she&#8217;ll transfer to Linda, a real ACD expert who&#8217;ll work on that behavior. <\/p>\n<p>Your donations <i>more<\/i> than covered her transport, even though it cost more than we expected. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Everything above the transport cost is going toward Sweetie&#8217;s care and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday was a long, grueling day for Sweetie, the deaf cattle dog. She arrived 2-1\/2 hours before her flight from the east coast, was on the plane for nearly nine hours (including stopovers), then had a three-hour drive from the Portland, OR, airport in the dark and the rain. (The humans were tired, but Sweetie handled it all in style.) She&#8217;s at my house and doing well so far. Near as anyone can tell, her problem behaviors develop only after she bonds with you and decides you&#8217;re &#8220;her&#8221; human. Then she takes on the duty of &#8220;protecting&#8221; you against&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/sweetie-is-a-westerner-now\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweetie is a westerner now<\/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-9621","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\/9621","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=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}