{"id":21834,"date":"2013-08-26T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21834"},"modified":"2013-08-26T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:34:42","slug":"the-worst-part-of-being-a-pet-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/the-worst-part-of-being-a-pet-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst part of being a pet owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saying goodbye. Goodbye Buffy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_21835\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21835\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Buffy-1999-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Buffy 1999?-August 2013\" width=\"850\" height=\"637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Buffy-1999-2013.jpg 850w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Buffy-1999-2013-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Buffy-1999-2013-480x359.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffy 1999?-26 August 2013<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Buffy was a rescue dog we adopted in July, 2007 as a companion for our first dog Xander. Xander accepted her immediately as the top dog in the pack. She&#8217;d had a very rough early life, including being used as a breeder dog in a puppy mill and had clearly been abused (the pet rescue organization said she&#8217;d been thrown from a moving vehicle on an interstate highway in Ohio). She was blind in one eye (which we had to have removed shortly after we adopted her) and had only minimal sight in the other eye. In spite of her injuries and the increasing debility of age (Cushing&#8217;s Disease and diabetes), she was a very dignified dog &#8230; and other dogs almost always gave her the space a dog ten times her size would command. <\/p>\n<p>We like to think we gave her a happy home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying goodbye. Goodbye Buffy. Buffy was a rescue dog we adopted in July, 2007 as a companion for our first dog Xander. Xander accepted her immediately as the top dog in the pack. She&#8217;d had a very rough early life, including being used as a breeder dog in a puppy mill and had clearly been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[849],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-21834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-pets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21837,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21834\/revisions\/21837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}