{"id":148,"date":"2008-10-14T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/tempting-the-kitty\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T15:20:50","slug":"tempting-the-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/tempting-the-kitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempting the kitty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jim the cat shrink told Mom to tempt the cats with delicious treats. Alas, the canned food doesn&#8217;t stay tempting for more than a single feeding. I suspect she&#8217;ll be heading over to Safeway for some generic version of Fancy Feast and maybe some human food in a lower-cost version.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/catfoodcan.gif\" alt=\"cat food in a can\" align=\"right\" height=\"129\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s following a diet she downloaded from the Internet. She looks great, but she says, &#8220;It ought to be called the Expensive Food diet. Lots of blueberries and salmon and organic produce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I have to go to my crate when Mom tries to tempt the kitties with treats. So far nothing seems to be working. Creampuff seems to have caught on to the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a few years ago I was bragging about what great pets I had,&#8221; Mom sighs. &#8220;And now we&#8217;ve got the dog with the delicate tummy and the most neurotic cat on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She exaggerates. But not by much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jim the cat shrink told Mom to tempt the cats with delicious treats. Alas, the canned food doesn&#8217;t stay tempting for more than a single feeding. I suspect she&#8217;ll be heading over to Safeway for some generic version of Fancy Feast and maybe some human food in a lower-cost version. Cathy&#8217;s following a diet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/tempting-the-kitty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tempting the kitty&#8230;<\/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":[163,137,164,165,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}