{"id":1032,"date":"2009-09-18T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2009-09-21T07:29:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:29:53","slug":"cats-getting-along-is-this-a-feline-form-of-detente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/cats-getting-along-is-this-a-feline-form-of-detente\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats getting along: is this a feline form of detente?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Older cats can get along\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/sep16catdetente.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"419\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"15\" \/>If you read this blog a year ago, you may recall that Mom brought home a big fluffy cat named Ophelia. Ophelia took an instant dislike to her new housemate, Creampuff. Creampuff tried to make friends but Ophelia wasn&#8217;t having any. <\/p>\n<p>Ophelia got so stressed, she stopped eating. She got liver disease and Mom had to force-feed her for 5 long, miserable weeks. (The politically correct term is &#8220;assisted feeding,&#8221; but who needs to be politically correct when it comes to cats?)<\/p>\n<p>A year later and we&#8217;re making some progress. Creampuff really wants a playmate, but at least they&#8217;re starting to talk. Dogs don&#8217;t have these problems, especially dogs like me. I love everybody. Who wouldn&#8217;t want a new live-in buddy? But I never claimed to understand cats in general and Ophelia makes a good case for establishing a Cat Mental Health Clinic somewhere. Of course, my mom Cathy adores Ophelia and thinks Ophelia is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May be the best cat I ever had,&#8221; she says. &#8220;She&#8217;s so cute when she waddles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right. If I waddled my rations would be cut back even more. But cats, says my mom, are supposed to be spoiled rotten. Ours certainly are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read this blog a year ago, you may recall that Mom brought home a big fluffy cat named Ophelia. Ophelia took an instant dislike to her new housemate, Creampuff. Creampuff tried to make friends but Ophelia wasn&#8217;t having any. Ophelia got so stressed, she stopped eating. She got liver disease and Mom had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/cats-getting-along-is-this-a-feline-form-of-detente\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cats getting along: is this a feline form of detente?<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"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=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}