{"id":1150,"date":"2009-10-23T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2009-11-19T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:49:12","slug":"two-cats-one-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/two-cats-one-household\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cats, One Household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much to make my mom&#8217;s day. Yesterday she took me out for a walk, then came home to this cozy domestic scene. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Two senior cats getting along\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/2cats.gif\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" width=\"213\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a year ago, I was ready to hire a cat  shrink,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And now&#8230;a picture of domestic bliss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a dog, I understand the dynamics of my housemates. Creampuff actually initiated this little get-together. She waited till Ophelia was settled on her favorite cat cushion, then jumped up to join her. Ophelia wasn&#8217;t about to give up her territory, not to mention her comfortable cushion.<\/p>\n<p>The cats are almost exactly the same age, if we can believe what their animal shelters told my mom. They&#8217;re about ten years old. That&#8217;s senior citizenship in human terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much to make my mom&#8217;s day. Yesterday she took me out for a walk, then came home to this cozy domestic scene. &#8220;Just a year ago, I was ready to hire a cat shrink,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And now&#8230;a picture of domestic bliss.&#8221; As a dog, I understand the dynamics of my housemates. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/two-cats-one-household\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Cats, One Household<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}