{"id":9776,"date":"2012-04-15T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2012-04-15T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:00:27","slug":"sweeties-journey-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/15\/sweeties-journey-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweetie&#8217;s journey continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/04\/15\/sweeties-journey-continues\/sweetiemeetssam_041512\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SweetieMeetsSam_041512-450x394.jpg\" alt=\"Deaf rescue dog Sweetie meets her fellow ACD Sam and new foster &quot;mom&quot; Linda\" title=\"SweetieMeetsSam_041512\" width=\"450\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9777\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to you all, the journey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/04\/01\/sweetie-is-a-westerner-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweetie the deaf heeler<\/a> continues &#8212; with each step taking her nearer to a happy forever home.<\/p>\n<p>I picked Sweetie up at the Portland airport two weeks ago and fostered her until Linda, a real cattle dog expert, could take her on. Today my wonderful vet and I (who were going to be traveling together anyhow) met up with Linda and transferred Sweetie into her care.<\/p>\n<p>Here you see this &#8220;vicious animal who can&#8217;t be trusted around dogs or strangers&#8221; greeting her new housemate Sam.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no expert, but in my time with Sweetie I saw what Mary Lou (her very determined South Carolina rescuer) saw: a darling lap dog whose main &#8220;problems&#8221; are that she is timid, defensive, untrained, deaf, and a classic heeler (e.g. &#8220;When in doubt, nip&#8221;). But also a complete cuddlebug and smart as a whip! Boy, did that dog learn <i>fast<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Pat yourselves on the back for all you did for this great girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to you all, the journey of Sweetie the deaf heeler continues &#8212; with each step taking her nearer to a happy forever home. I picked Sweetie up at the Portland airport two weeks ago and fostered her until Linda, a real cattle dog expert, could take her on. Today my wonderful vet and I (who were going to be traveling together anyhow) met up with Linda and transferred Sweetie into her care. Here you see this &#8220;vicious animal who can&#8217;t be trusted around dogs or strangers&#8221; greeting her new housemate Sam. I&#8217;m no expert, but in my time with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/15\/sweeties-journey-continues\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweetie&#8217;s journey continues<\/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-9776","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\/9776","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=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}