{"id":13497,"date":"2023-11-15T17:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/15\/woe-is-the-puppy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:20:15","slug":"woe-is-the-puppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/15\/woe-is-the-puppy\/","title":{"rendered":"Woe is the puppy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s rained most of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pup hates being rained on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2939.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13499\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About every hour or so, he\u2019ll go to the door, I\u2019ll let him out. He will wander from one end of the deck to the other verifying that the rain is really coming from the sky and not some other source, then he\u2019ll come back in with this pitiful look on his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d put on appropriate clothing and walk him in the rain if he wanted to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, I\u2019m just as happy to not go out in the rain. It\u2019s nice that accidentally the dog has some common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I needed the day off. We walk at least a mile, usually more every day seven days a week. That distance isn\u2019t much, but it is downhill and then uphill, usually I\u2019m being dragged a bit by the dog with 4 paw drive on. It puts a bit of stress on my knees both directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed that when I have a rare day off from the \u201cexercise\u201d that I feel better and stronger the next time we\u2019re walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The down side is that tomorrow he\u2019s going to have a <strong>lot<\/strong> of energy. So I\u2019m likely to be really dragged all over hell\u2019s half acre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eh, it\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason I only got about 3 hours of sleep last night so I\u2019ve been a lazy slug all day. Neither the dog or I have gotten anything done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side,  at least he\u2019s not using my pillow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rained most of the day. The pup hates being rained on. About every hour or so, he\u2019ll go to the door, I\u2019ll let him out. He will wander from one end of the deck to the other verifying that the rain is really coming from the sky and not some other source, then he\u2019ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/15\/woe-is-the-puppy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Woe is the puppy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,165,169],"tags":[284,201,198],"class_list":["post-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-neighborhood","category-climate","category-pets","tag-around-the-neighborhood","tag-climate","tag-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}