{"id":1070,"date":"2009-10-04T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T17:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2009-10-04T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T17:37:53","slug":"dogs-job-description-keeps-getting-longer-and-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/dogs-job-description-keeps-getting-longer-and-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog’s job description keeps getting longer and longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The relationship was growing cold.<\/strong> So was the weather. And the couple was experiencing all sorts of personal and financial pressures.<\/p>\n

So what should they do?<\/p>\n

Get a dog, of course.<\/p>\n

Have you noticed that we dogs are taking on larger roles in people’s lives every day? <\/strong>Just in my humble home I am expected to be a<\/p>\n

\"\"personal trainer (“My dog forces <\/em>me to get out and walk…”)<\/p>\n

\"\"heating pad when it’s cold (I’ve blogged about this before and may be able to delegate this chore to Ophelia)<\/p>\n

\"\"social facilitator (my mom gets into interesting conversations because of me)<\/p>\n

\"\"vacuum cleaner (I catch all the crumbs in the kitchen and when I’m lucky, a few cat crunchies that spilled over)<\/p>\n

\"\"source of entertainment (“she’s SO cute when she does that…”)<\/p>\n

and a whole lot more, as my copywriting mom<\/a> likes to say. Lisa Scottoline, one of my mom’s favorite mystery writers, even wrote a book with a title that should make any dog sit up and take notice: Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now dogs are being pressed into duty as marriage counselors and relationship rescuers. Gimme a break.<\/p>\n

I feel like an employee of a company whose job description keeps getting longer and longer,\u00a0 witih no extra compensation. I certainly haven’t noticed any increase in crunchies and treats.<\/p>\n

Then again, my mom is like those bosses who say, “You’re lucky to have a job.” Just this morning, she was musing, “Gracie, if I didn’t have a dog, I’d have a LOT more money and a LOT more free time. But I wouldn’t have these other things.”<\/p>\n

Somehow I don’t think this is the time to discuss creating a doggie union.<\/p>\n

P.S. Please leave a comment! My mom says she’ll let me blog as long as we keep hearing from our readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The relationship was growing cold. So was the weather. And the couple was experiencing all sorts of personal and financial pressures. So what should they do? Get a dog, of course. Have you noticed that we dogs are taking on larger roles in people’s lives every day? Just in my humble home I am expected … Continue reading Dog’s job description keeps getting longer and longer<\/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":[110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}