{"id":54,"date":"2010-06-08T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-06-16T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T11:03:00","slug":"neutering-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Neutering the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-58\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?attachment_id=58\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58\" title=\"stove_dog\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stove_dog-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Dog lying by stove\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stove_dog-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stove_dog-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stove_dog-1024x896.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stove_dog.jpg 1546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When we got the dog I did a fair bit of research about neutering dogs.\u00a0 I decided the best choice for our family was to wait until he was 14 months old, then do the deed.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention the girls have been fascinated with the male anatomy of the dog since the day we brought him home.\u00a0 Ruth was learning to observe nature in school about the same time we got the dog.\u00a0 She sat down next to him with a notebook and wrote down her observations.\u00a0 Black.\u00a0 Furry.\u00a0 Penis.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as the time to neuter him drew close, the girls were getting upset by the whole thing.\u00a0 I have to say I too felt a certain sympathy for the dog, so the role of being the enforcer fell to my wife.\u00a0 She made the appointment and brought the dog to vet.\u00a0 During the first days of his recovery I had to speak to Miriam about appropriate language.\u00a0 I told her she couldn&#8217;t be going around school saying &#8220;Our dog feels bad because Mommy had his balls chopped off.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we got the dog I did a fair bit of research about neutering dogs.\u00a0 I decided the best choice for our family was to wait until he was 14 months old, then do the deed. I should mention the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/?p=54\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shayfoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}