{"id":1195,"date":"2006-01-06T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1195"},"modified":"2006-01-06T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T18:05:00","slug":"menagerie-a-trois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1195","title":{"rendered":"Menagerie a Trois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have quite the James Herriot episode happening at the house right now. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beeville.net\/BeevilleHumaneSociety\/DSCN9407%20copy.jpg\" height=\"200\"><br \/>\nJVL heroically conquered his allergies to permit us to pet-sit a cat (not, as previously thought, a kitten) who is large and grey and named Eddie and he likes to sit and purr and be furry and I am okay with that. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bulldogbreeds.com\/photos\/bullmastiff295x266.jpg\"><br \/>\nAlong with the cat came a dog, a bull mastiff to be more precise, who is extremely large (I think she weighs almost as much as I do), but very loving. Almost too loving, in that she tends to lose it if she isn&#8217;t in *constant* physical contact with a human. And there is a lot of gooey drool, which requires dedicated drool-removal rags. But Tia (the mastiff) is obedient and good natured, which is all you really need in a doggie.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, darling old Bunny-dog. Who is in no way obedient, but at least she doesn&#8217;t slobber.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, three animals and three humans in the house at the moment. It&#8217;s a bit of a crunch, but kind of circus-y fun, all at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have quite the James Herriot episode happening at the house right now. JVL heroically conquered his allergies to permit us to pet-sit a cat (not, as previously thought, a kitten) who is large and grey and named Eddie and he likes to sit and purr and be furry and I am okay with <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1195\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}