{"id":2173,"date":"2010-12-23T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2011-02-10T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:38:24","slug":"another-good-reason-to-own-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/another-good-reason-to-own-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Another good reason to own a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/PamelaandKaylee.jpg\" title=\"Business coach and dog\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"6' \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela with Kaylee<\/figcaption><\/figure>My mom Cathy thinks she should get a tax deduction for me: my food, treats and vet bills. She points out that I am an asset to her health and her business. I force her to take walks in the fresh air. I insist that we take regular breaks. <\/p>\n<p>And I am her muse and source of inspiration.   <\/p>\n<p>Now my mom has yet another reason to believe dogs are good for business. Her business friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1shoppingcart.com\/app\/?af=1149582\">Pamela Bruner<\/a> just wrote  a blog post about dogs as motivators.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Pamela&#8217;s dog Kaylee needed surgery to alleviate a painful knee. (You didn&#8217;t know dogs have knees? Now you know.) Pamela realized she had a motivation to keep earning higher levels of income, so she would always be able to say &#8220;yes&#8221; when a vet asked if she could afford the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Dog surgery doesn&#8217;t come cheap. In fact, my mom sighs, there&#8217;s nothing cheap about a dog. Walking. Boarding. Feeding. And more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I didn&#8217;t have a dog, my life would be simpler,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>My mom&#8217;s New York friend Bill always laughs when she says this. He knows she&#8217;d have less fun and &#8220;you&#8217;d be a little old lady who lives with cats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good grief. Imagine life with Ophelia as the main pet. Be thankful for me, mom! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom Cathy thinks she should get a tax deduction for me: my food, treats and vet bills. She points out that I am an asset to her health and her business. I force her to take walks in the fresh air. I insist that we take regular breaks. And I am her muse and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/another-good-reason-to-own-a-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another good reason to own a dog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,21,81],"tags":[243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"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=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}