{"id":2218,"date":"2011-01-13T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2011-01-12T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T23:36:21","slug":"we-love-going-to-the-mud-bay-pet-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/we-love-going-to-the-mud-bay-pet-store\/","title":{"rendered":"We LOVE going to the Mud Bay pet store:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/graciemudbay.gif\" title=\"dog goes to pet store for treats and massage\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudbay.us\/Store_Locations\/Belltown.htm\">branch of Mud Bay<\/a> just a few blocks away.  So every few weeks my mom loads up her wheelie backpack and off we go. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s convenient and we get to combine Gracie&#8217;s walk with an important errand,&#8221; my mom says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I always get a treat,&#8221; I have to add. &#8220;Plus those Mud Bay employees know how to give a good dog massage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s only fair. The mom discovered the joys of massage with her awesome massage therapist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larryswanson.com\">Larry Swanson.<\/a> She&#8217;s not allowed to take me and frankly I&#8217;d be bored. Larry just works on humans and my stressed-out mom makes a good challenge for him. I take my own back rubs where I can get them.  <\/p>\n<p>People have trigger points where massaging one spot makes a huge difference to a whole muscle group. Here&#8217;s someone who understands a dog&#8217;s trigger point. And don&#8217;t forget those treats. I usually manage to talk them into at least three per visit even when we&#8217;re just buying cat food. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a branch of Mud Bay just a few blocks away. So every few weeks my mom loads up her wheelie backpack and off we go. &#8220;It&#8217;s convenient and we get to combine Gracie&#8217;s walk with an important errand,&#8221; my mom says. &#8220;And I always get a treat,&#8221; I have to add. &#8220;Plus those Mud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/we-love-going-to-the-mud-bay-pet-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We LOVE going to the Mud Bay pet store:<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}