{"id":482,"date":"2009-04-12T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-04-22T17:12:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T01:12:52","slug":"first-dog-is-portuguese-water-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/first-dog-is-portuguese-water-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"First Dog Is Portuguese Water Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama finally made the most important decision of his Presidency. The family adopted a Portuguese Water Dog newly named Bo. He is six months old and he’s a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy, no less. Apparently the dog had a home but the family couldn’t take care of him. My mom read the story<\/a> to me while I was enjoying my Morning Nap.<\/p>\n

My Morning Nap, in case you’re wondering, starts after my night time sleep gets interrupted by the Morning Walk. I wanted to sleep in but Mom said, “I don’t want to interrupt my breakfast because you need to go out. Off the bed – now!”<\/p>\n

Hey,\u00a0 I’m conserving my energy for my weekly visit to the Downtown Dog Lounge. <\/a>Hopefully the First Family will adapt their lives to their new dog’s schedule a little more successfully.<\/p>\n

Join the club, Bo. All 3 of us in this household are adoptees. Presumably our original families couldn’t care for us because we ended up in rescue. We’re mixed breeds.<\/p>\n

Purebred dogs who don’t make it the first time often get new homes by word of mouth, without ever going to shelters. They’re lucky.<\/p>\n

We’re lucky too. Especially me. I couldn’t have gotten a better home anywhere. Well, I wouldn’t mind a few kids to play with but I get the dog park instead. Life could be worse.<\/p>\n

My mom is so proud of giving us all a good home. It’s her only sign of domesticity. She still misses her own First Dog. But she’s getting used to me. And to be honest, I don’t remember my first homes. Seems like I’ve been here forever<\/p>\n

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President Obama finally made the most important decision of his Presidency. The family adopted a Portuguese Water Dog newly named Bo. He is six months old and he’s a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy, no less. Apparently the dog had a home but the family couldn’t take care of him. My mom read the story … Continue reading First Dog Is Portuguese Water 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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}