{"id":477,"date":"2009-04-10T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2009-04-11T09:44:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T17:44:48","slug":"good-griefanother-cat-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/good-griefanother-cat-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Good grief&#8230;another cat picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rear view of Ophelia. Although my mom insists she&#8217;s a normal weight (&#8220;It&#8217;s all fur!&#8221;) there&#8217;s no <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"cat scratching on sofa\" src=\"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/images-2\/apr5opheliascratches.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"400\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>denying she&#8217;s a Big Kitty. She weighed in at 15 pounds when Mom adopted her from the shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry about the sofa. Ophelia was adopted as a senior, fixed, declawed cat, from a municipal animal shelter. You can&#8217;t get more politically correct than that. As my mom keeps reminding me, Ophelia spent 30 days in a small cage before we took her home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I refuse to get her any diet food,&#8221; says my Mom. &#8220;Half a dozen vets told me Tiger was too fat. They predicted she&#8217;d die young. Well, Tiger finally headed off to the Great Sandbox in the Sky last July. She must have been twenty years old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right. So how come every time that nice Dr. Kira looks at me and says, &#8220;Gracie is getting fat!&#8221; my rations get cut? Life is not fair. I&#8217;m a solid, muscular, queen-sized canine. Ophelia is squishy and fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of being in shape, isn&#8217;t it about time for our walk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rear view of Ophelia. Although my mom insists she&#8217;s a normal weight (&#8220;It&#8217;s all fur!&#8221;) there&#8217;s no denying she&#8217;s a Big Kitty. She weighed in at 15 pounds when Mom adopted her from the shelter. Not to worry about the sofa. Ophelia was adopted as a senior, fixed, declawed cat, from a municipal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/good-griefanother-cat-picture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good grief&#8230;another cat picture<\/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\/477"}],"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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}