{"id":90,"date":"2008-06-19T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/whos-top-dog-in-this-household\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:15:32","slug":"whos-top-dog-in-this-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/adopted-dog\/whos-top-dog-in-this-household\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Top Dog In This Household?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong with this picture? That’s a 19-year old cat, sitting on her old cushion, looking smug. It’s Tiger, the Queen of our household. \"cat<\/p>\n

Sometimes I try to play with her. She’s such a grump! She just swats me with her paw and yowls tha raspy meow. Since she’s old, she’s fussier about everything.<\/p>\n

My mom ordered a couple of cases of canned food because Tiger won’t eat dry food anymore. I think she’s lost her sense of smell.<\/p>\n

Cathy adores Tiger. They’ve been together since spring of 1994. More than some people have been married.<\/p>\n

Tiger used to sleep next to Mom’s pillow. Now she prefers to sleep in the closet. But during the day, she likes to sit near my mom.<\/p>\n

When my mom works on her laptop on the couch, Tiger sleeps on the armrest next to her. When my mom eats a snack (a lot more often than she should, but don’t tell her I said that), Tiger tries to share.<\/p>\n

“When I get old, I want someone to spoil me,” Mom says. “So I’ll spoil Tiger as much as I can.”<\/p>\n

How about spoiling me too, Mom? I’m bigger. Double the karma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong with this picture? That’s a 19-year old cat, sitting on her old cushion, looking smug. It’s Tiger, the Queen of our household. Sometimes I try to play with her. She’s such a grump! She just swats me with her paw and yowls tha raspy meow. Since she’s old, she’s fussier about everything. My … Continue reading Who’s Top Dog In This Household?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,84],"tags":[118,101,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}