{"id":2494,"date":"2012-09-27T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2012-10-30T07:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T15:08:22","slug":"new-housemate-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/new-housemate-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this our new housemate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom doesn’t waste time and she’s not especially sentimental.<\/p>\n

“Our home is too quiet,” she said, after Ophelia left us on Tuesday. “It will be hard to find a cat who meets my specifications: at least 5, spayed and declawed. Oh yes, and we need a cat with charm, wit and personality.”<\/p>\n

So she’s browsing on Petfinder.com, where she found me and later Ophelia. And there she is … a tabby named Biggums and later Kerfuffle.<\/p>\n

She emailed the Seattle Animal Control people. At first she figured they were out in the middle of nowhere, but then she discovered our very own #57 bus goes right by there. She discovered that Kerfluffle is being fostered and it’s up to the foster mom.<\/p>\n

“There must be a ton of applicants,’ my mom sighed. “She’s such a pretty cat.”<\/p>\n

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My mom doesn’t waste time and she’s not especially sentimental. “Our home is too quiet,” she said, after Ophelia left us on Tuesday. “It will be hard to find a cat who meets my specifications: at least 5, spayed and declawed. Oh yes, and we need a cat with charm, wit and personality.” So she’s … Continue reading Is this our new housemate?<\/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\/2494"}],"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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}