{"id":1650,"date":"2010-02-26T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:35:13","slug":"are-canadian-dogs-better-behaved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/are-canadian-dogs-better-behaved\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Canadian dogs better behaved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"dog park summer\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/parksummer.gif\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"15\" width=\"350\" height=\"246\" \/>Last night my mom Cathy went to a meeting for her neighborhood, Queen Anne in Seattle. I had to stay home in my crate but when she came back, I could tell she had been talking to my good pal Lindsay, the Regrade Park Dog Steward.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was about changes to Kinnear Park, a magnificent natural park that&#8217;s a short walk from where we live.\u00a0 My mom loves the views of the Sound but I like the smells of the squirrels.\u00a0 The only problem is, I am not allowed to run around loose and chase those wonderful squirrels. My mom says there&#8217;s a movement afoot to install a dog park and\u00a0 I, for one, can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>Our small group was led by an architect from Vancouver, BC. He said, &#8220;In Vancouver, dogs don&#8217;t have separate parks. They can run loose on the trails for certain times of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My mom was puzzled. &#8220;Don&#8217;t the dogs escape?&#8221; she asked. I wasn&#8217;t there but I can just imagine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canadians train their dogs,&#8221; the man said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t run away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oops. My mom has been eying me ever since she came home. Training? I&#8217;m the ultimate escape artist. Good thing I wasn&#8217;t adopted by a Canadian family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my mom Cathy went to a meeting for her neighborhood, Queen Anne in Seattle. I had to stay home in my crate but when she came back, I could tell she had been talking to my good pal Lindsay, the Regrade Park Dog Steward. The meeting was about changes to Kinnear Park, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/are-canadian-dogs-better-behaved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are Canadian dogs better behaved?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,235,48],"tags":[248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}