{"id":102,"date":"2008-07-13T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/pill-popping-pets\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:19:52","slug":"pill-popping-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/pill-popping-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pill-popping pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, more and more dogs are taking psychoactive drugs. There&#8217;s a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/646jql\" title=\"dogs on drugs\">article<\/a> in the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>My mom Cathy wonders if I can take a pill so I will stop chewing.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t catch me doing drugs though.  I chew because I like the taste of socks. Anxiety is not a word in my vocabulary. If I were any calmer I&#8217;d be a zombie.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t those dogs just get more exercise? Friday I went off to Magnuson Park with my Aunt Sara. I ran for over an hour. I was exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Today Cathy dropped me off in the dog lounge while she ran some errands.\u00a0 She told the staff, &#8220;Gracie will probably be tired. She&#8217;ll want to snooze on the couch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hah. As they told Cathy, I barked till they put me in the exercise area with the other dogs. I wanted to play!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m sprawled out on Cathy&#8217;s bed, sound asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Not a neurotic bone in my body.<\/p>\n<p>The cats, however, are another story. Especially that ditzy calico who eats my food. My food? Everybody knows cat food tastes better. Creampuff needs a chill pill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, more and more dogs are taking psychoactive drugs. There&#8217;s a whole article in the magazine. My mom Cathy wonders if I can take a pill so I will stop chewing. You won&#8217;t catch me doing drugs though. I chew because I like the taste of socks. Anxiety is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/pill-popping-pets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pill-popping pets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[101,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}