{"id":3666,"date":"2013-08-29T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:36:29","slug":"the-foster-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/08\/29\/the-foster-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foster Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130829-165519.jpg\"<\/a>This is our new foster “child”.<\/p>\n

He’s been in a house in LA. <\/p>\n

His owners were getting on in years and their health wasn’t up to looking after a dog anymore. <\/p>\n

To their credit they decided to place the the dog in a retriever rescue, and we’re his new foster parents. <\/p>\n

Thus far the S dog has been very good and patient.<\/p>\n

The foster child is freaked out by the sights and sounds of the mountain creatures. <\/p>\n

Being a city dog his paws are very tender and the ground having “rocks” seems to puzzle him. <\/p>\n

Walks will be of limited duration until his pads toughen up.<\/p>\n

\"20130829-170356.jpg\"<\/a>Generally the Foster child seems well behaved and mostly eager to please.<\/p>\n

He knows what a plate looks like and has some nose on the table issues. Nothing too bad thankfully, <\/p>\n

Poor thing, it’s been a very stressful day for him. He had to say goodbye to his family then met a bunch of other people the went for a long car ride which let him out in a whole new world.<\/p>\n

A yard, another dog, rabbits, and birds, squirrels chittering in the trees and smells of coyotes and bears if only dim smells from these critters last pass through the area. <\/p>\n

We took him and the S dog for a short walk. We covered little distance but did it taking a long time. The Foster child stopped every three paces to sniff something new. <\/p>\n

Now that he’s napping finally, I can get a better assessment of his coat and skin. In general he’s pretty healthy. His coat is very dry. He likes being brushed and seems bright and eager to please. <\/p>\n

Time will tell but I think he’s basically in good shape and well behaved. <\/p>\n

Now if I can only get him over his fear of stairs….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}