{"id":161,"date":"2008-11-25T23:10:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T23:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/its-official-ophelia-back-to-normal\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:45:26","slug":"its-official-ophelia-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/its-official-ophelia-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: Ophelia back to normal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or whatever passes for normal in a cat these days.<\/p>\n<p>My mom is so happy. Ophelia has been eating&#8230;and eating. Mom put a big dish of food in the laundry room, so Ophelia would have some privacy. Ophelia dug right in with gusto. You&#8217;d think she hadn&#8217;t eaten for a month. Well, she hadn&#8217;t. She&#8217;s been eating via &#8220;assisted feeding.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/opheliaposing.gif\" alt=\"ophelia posing\" align=\"right\" height=\"155\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cathy feels she has gained an hour a day. No more fluid. No more force feeding.<\/p>\n<p>She also gained a new cat. Ophelia&#8217;s whole personality has changed, too. She&#8217;s become a strong, confient, dominant feline. She joins us on the sofa. She sleeps on Cathy&#8217;s bed.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re waiting for the cats to start getting along. Ophelia has a magnificent purr and a horrible, ugly hiss. I&#8217;m afraid Creampuff gets hisses, boos and growls. I get ignored. My mom gets the purrs. Welll, she pays the big vet bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or whatever passes for normal in a cat these days. My mom is so happy. Ophelia has been eating&#8230;and eating. Mom put a big dish of food in the laundry room, so Ophelia would have some privacy. Ophelia dug right in with gusto. You&#8217;d think she hadn&#8217;t eaten for a month. Well, she hadn&#8217;t. She&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/dogs-and-cats\/its-official-ophelia-back-to-normal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s official: Ophelia back to normal&#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":[160,159,101,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}