{"id":152,"date":"2008-10-23T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dog-park\/can-we-send-ophelia-back-where-she-came-from\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T23:18:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:18:59","slug":"can-we-send-ophelia-back-where-she-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dog-park\/can-we-send-ophelia-back-where-she-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we send Ophelia back where she came from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom took Ophelia back to the vet on Monday. Ophelia&#8217;s lab tests show something is going on with her liver, which is why she&#8217;s turning yellow.  No surprise there.<\/p>\n<p>Mom came home with instructions for force-feeding, sub-Q fluids, and pills. Then she took me to the dog park. Lindsay, the park steward, is always happy to see us.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/lindsaypatsgracie.gif\" alt=\"dog park with lindsay pating gracie\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new kitty is sick?&#8221; Lindsay said. &#8220;Does she come with a return guarantee?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See why I like Lindsay? That woman has great perspsective.<\/p>\n<p>But she was joking and Cathy would never do that. She vowed Ophelia will never return to that shelter. And who else will be such a dedicated cat nurse?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really mind. When Cathy&#8217;s working on Ophelia, she puts me in my crate with a peanut butter kong toy. Yum. Ophelia&#8217;s not such a bad idea after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom took Ophelia back to the vet on Monday. Ophelia&#8217;s lab tests show something is going on with her liver, which is why she&#8217;s turning yellow. No surprise there. Mom came home with instructions for force-feeding, sub-Q fluids, and pills. Then she took me to the dog park. Lindsay, the park steward, is always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dog-park\/can-we-send-ophelia-back-where-she-came-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can we send Ophelia back where she came from?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,84],"tags":[163,137,206,157,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}