{"id":67,"date":"2008-05-08T04:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T04:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/going-to-the-vet\/mom-gets-healthierdog-gets-hungry\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T18:13:23","slug":"mom-gets-healthierdog-gets-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/going-to-the-vet\/mom-gets-healthierdog-gets-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom gets healthier…dog gets hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom was getting really tired of my finicky digestive system. So she bought some bland diet food at the vet and Mallory,\"me the vet tech, gave her a measuring cup.<\/p>\n

“When Gracie’s on a bland diet, move her back to the regular diet very slowly,” Mallory said.<\/p>\n

Here’a a photo of me with Mallory (on the right), the vet tech, and Ruth, the office manager, when I visited the vet last March. I’m trying to keep their attention focused on my front end.<\/p>\n

Ruth remembers when Cathy first adopted me. “Doesn’t look like the same dog!” she always says. Well, I’m now a Cuppie: a Canine Urban Princess.<\/p>\n

Cathy realized she hadn’t been measuring my food, the way she had with Keesha, my predecessor.<\/p>\n

“Hmm…maybe that’s why your tummy keeps rumbling,” she said. So now she measures my food — 2 cups a day.<\/p>\n

If I don’t eat, it’s gone. No more food for me to nibble when I’m in the mood for a quick snack. My only hope is to sneak over to the cat food.<\/p>\n

Then Cathy decided she should walk more. Translation: we<\/em> will walk more. So yesterday we walked all the way home from the dog park. I’m exhausted. Cathy is too, but she won’t admit it.<\/p>\n

“If there’s any justice in this world,” she says, “I would be skinny.”<\/p>\n

No comment. You think I’m gonna go there? I’m heading straight for my cushion, saving my energy for the next sock available for chewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom was getting really tired of my finicky digestive system. So she bought some bland diet food at the vet and Mallory, the vet tech, gave her a measuring cup. “When Gracie’s on a bland diet, move her back to the regular diet very slowly,” Mallory said. Here’a a photo of me with Mallory … Continue reading Mom gets healthier…dog gets hungry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[5,250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}