{"id":1587,"date":"2010-02-05T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2010-02-10T18:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:27:02","slug":"cat-holding-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/cat-holding-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat holding position"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dogHere’s Ophelia firmly holding on to her spot on the couch.<\/p>\n

She got here first and notice how she’s expanded to take up the whole space. Not hard to do when you’re a queen-sized feline. Notice how there’s no way I can possibly squeeze in.<\/p>\n

Cats control their world even when they’re asleep…or pretending. Ophelia’s got one eye squinting out at us.<\/p>\n

My mom doesn’t really care who’s on the couch as long as somebody joins her. She says, “I pay all this money for crunchies. The least I can expect is some company while I work.”<\/p>\n

And she’s happy to see Ophelia emerge from her hiding places and join the family. She will never forget how Ophelia arrived as a timid stray cat who promptly stopped eating and got sick with liver disease.<\/p>\n

Ophelia’s left her past behind. Better than some humans, my mom says. She’s totally at home, as you can see. And I don’t think she belongs in the “finicky eater” department anymore. My mom just put out an SOS call to the vet, asking how much to feed Ophelia every day. I suggested we send Ophelia out to catch some mice in the park but nobody paid any attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s Ophelia firmly holding on to her spot on the couch. She got here first and notice how she’s expanded to take up the whole space. Not hard to do when you’re a queen-sized feline. Notice how there’s no way I can possibly squeeze in. Cats control their world even when they’re asleep…or pretending. Ophelia’s … Continue reading Cat holding position<\/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\/1587"}],"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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}