{"id":8394,"date":"2011-12-05T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2011-12-05T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T04:35:09","slug":"a-dogs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8394","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Make Everything Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

We adopted a second dachshund yesterday. Her name is Maxie. We think she’s a year or so younger than Schatzi.<\/p>\n

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Schatzi (left) and her new playmate Maxie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dog was originally a boyfriend’s pet.\u00a0 Maxie (full name Maxine) wound up with the girlfriend, who is the daughter of our friend Lorri, moving from apartment to apartment (five in the last year alone), eventually being left with Lorri, who already has two dogs of her own.<\/p>\n

We don’t know anything about her medical history, but our friend is checking on that.\u00a0 Maxie has pet registration tags from Maricopa County, so we’re confident she had all her puppy shots.\u00a0 And surely, if she were not spayed, she’d have been a mother several times by now.\u00a0 But we’re confirming all that for our own peace of mind.<\/p>\n

Schatzi and Maxie are getting along like littermates.\u00a0 Schatzi settled right into her role as alpha, or as they so crudely say these days, top.\u00a0 Last night when we went to bed, Schatzi crawled into her sleeping bag on the floor near our bed, as usual.\u00a0 After padding around the bedroom for an hour, Maxie hopped up onto the rocking chair by our bed and curled up too.\u00a0 When I woke up this morning they were both under the covers with us … Donna must have gathered them up during the night.\u00a0 They’ve been playing today, with a nap break around one … both of them on my lap in the recliner.\u00a0 Tonight we’re taking them downtown for our Monday night walk.<\/p>\n

We were ready for another dachshund.\u00a0 Actually, we’ve been talking about it for a couple of years now.\u00a0 We sensed our lives needed more … cowbell?\u00a0 No, not cowbell, something else … what’s the word I’m searching for?\u00a0 Woofage?\u00a0 Yes, that’s it … more woofage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We adopted a second dachshund yesterday. Her name is Maxie. We think she’s a year or so younger than Schatzi. The dog was originally a boyfriend’s pet.\u00a0 Maxie (full name Maxine) wound up with the girlfriend, who is the daughter of our friend Lorri, moving from apartment to apartment (five in the last year alone), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[436,435,356],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","tag-dachshund","tag-maxie","tag-schatzi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394","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=8394"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}