{"id":1815,"date":"2009-03-26T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2009-05-27T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:00:11","slug":"my-dog-has-twenty-nine-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-One Things I Call My Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/portrait_16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1816\" title=\"click for larger\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/portrait_16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my kids grew up and moved off on their own, I had all this love and affection left over.\u00a0 Especially since I never used much of it when the kids were around.\u00a0 So I got a dog, and discovered that once you start lavishing love and affection on a pet, things can quickly get out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Walking Schatzi around the neighborhood this morning, it hit me that I constantly talk to her.\u00a0 That&#8217;s bad enough.\u00a0 What&#8217;s worse is that I have all these different names for her, depending on what she&#8217;s doing at the time \u2014 or for no reason at all \u2014 I wonder if she ever gets confused.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the names I have for Schatzi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pup<\/li>\n<li>Little pup<\/li>\n<li>Crazy pup<\/li>\n<li>Sniffer pup<\/li>\n<li>Lover pup<\/li>\n<li>Fierce pup<\/li>\n<li>Sleepy pup<\/li>\n<li>Kissy pup<\/li>\n<li>Digger pup<\/li>\n<li>Snarfy pup<\/li>\n<li>Girl<\/li>\n<li>Happy girl<\/li>\n<li>Pretty girl<\/li>\n<li>Lover girl<\/li>\n<li>Little girl<\/li>\n<li>Little girl dog<\/li>\n<li>Pest<\/li>\n<li>Pesky dog<\/li>\n<li>Baby girl dog<\/li>\n<li>Lover dog<\/li>\n<li>Dog<\/li>\n<li>Schnogger dog<\/li>\n<li>Pooper dog<\/li>\n<li>Growly dog<\/li>\n<li>Barky dog<\/li>\n<li>Scamper dog<\/li>\n<li>Smelly dog<\/li>\n<li>Killer dog<\/li>\n<li>Sweetie pie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that was just during our walk this morning.\u00a0 Somehow, she keeps it all straight.\u00a0 She&#8217;s undoubtedly smarter than I think \u2014 and I think she&#8217;s pretty smart.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did I mention she has a <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/hashblog\/?page_id=13\" target=\"_blank\">hash name<\/a> too?\u00a0 Low-Flying Booger.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least I don&#8217;t baby-talk her.\u00a0 Unless you count the occasional Schatzi-watzi-flatzi-platzi-ooty-ooty-ooo.\u00a0 Which I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my kids grew up and moved off on their own, I had all this love and affection left over.\u00a0 Especially since I never used much of it when the kids were around.\u00a0 So I got a dog, and discovered that once you start lavishing love and affection on a pet, things can quickly get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}