{"id":1205,"date":"2009-11-04T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T18:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2009-11-04T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T18:28:57","slug":"smart-dogs-hah-i-could-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/smart-dogs-hah-i-could-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Dogs? Hah. I could do that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/01\/weekinreview\/01kershaw.html?_r=1&#038;em\">a story today<\/a> about a Labradoodle who serves as combination service dog and psychiatric aide. They said the Veterans Admin will spend $300 to study the impact of service dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Save your money, Dogs are natural psychiatrists. I personally keep my owner, Cathy Goodwin, sane and motivated. Without me, who knows how she&#8217;d spend her time? Would she get out of the house and do things if she didn&#8217;t have to walk me? Would she go to bed early if I weren&#8217;t waiting for her? <\/p>\n<p>I am a natural social worker. I go up to strangers on buses. I snuggle up to strangers sitting on benches on the street. People pat me when they want a dog fix.<\/p>\n<p>And while I may be a princess, I&#8217;m not a high-priced breed by any means. The government can save its money. There are dozens of wonderful mutts like me. If I can keep my owner in line, any dog can do anything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times ran a story today about a Labradoodle who serves as combination service dog and psychiatric aide. They said the Veterans Admin will spend $300 to study the impact of service dogs. Save your money, Dogs are natural psychiatrists. I personally keep my owner, Cathy Goodwin, sane and motivated. Without me, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/smart-dogs-hah-i-could-do-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smart Dogs? Hah. I could do that.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,21],"tags":[110,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}