{"id":731,"date":"2001-07-18T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2001-07-18T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2001\/07\/its-a-dogs-life\/"},"modified":"2001-07-18T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2001-07-18T15:36:52","slug":"its-a-dogs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2001\/07\/its-a-dogs-life\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a dog’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a dog’s life<\/b><\/p>\n

I aspire to be like my Golden Retriever, Molly. Why? Because:<\/p>\n

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  1. she’s skinny (although, I guess I would be too if someone else controlled my food intake) <\/li>\n
  2. she never<\/i> has a bad hair day <\/li>\n
  3. she’s extremely flexible <\/li>\n
  4. she’s loved by everybody (except those who are not dog people, and I’ve never really understood how anyone could not be a dog-person…) <\/li>\n
  5. she never complains about anything <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I feel pretty bad for her, though. We just took her to the vet Monday for x-rays on her hips, and they’ve gotten much worse since her 6-month x-rays… We’re looking at surgery options for her, which could involve completely replacing both hips (shudder). But she’s only 15 months old, and I couldn’t stand the thought of her having a very short life because we didn’t do something like this. According to the vet, she has arthritis as badly as a much older dog would have. She obviously hurts – she has a hard time getting up when she’s been sleeping, and she limps when she runs or swims too long – but she’s always a sweet little (ok, maybe not so little) dog. I wish life were a little more fair. :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s a dog’s life I aspire to be like my Golden Retriever, Molly. Why? Because: she’s skinny (although, I guess I would be too if someone else controlled my food intake) she never has a bad hair day she’s extremely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}