{"id":2241,"date":"2012-11-30T18:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T01:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2012-11-30T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T02:32:04","slug":"big-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Big Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/8233945126\/\" title=\"thora, almost five months by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8346\/8233945126_de2c079037.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"thora, almost five months\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thora, a week shy of five months. She had a vet check today and weighed in at 55 pounds. Some people mistake her for a full-grown hound dog, but most can tell that she&#8217;s still just a puppy (and are able to conclude that she&#8217;s gonna be huge)!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve started taking her to the dog park, where she behaves very nicely with the other dogs. She&#8217;s also fully house-trained, and she&#8217;s growing less &#8220;mouthy,&#8221; though she&#8217;s still teething and the inanimate world is pretty much her chew toy at this stage. We need to work on: the &#8220;down&#8221; command (she jumps up on people, especially on a first meeting), leash-training (she has a tendency to pull, which is not tolerable in a full-grown mastiff), and most especially her behavior towards my chickens, which is not exactly that of a loving big sister.<\/p>\n<p>To us, though, she is unfailingly sweet.  She has a big dog bed in my office, but it&#8217;s not quite close enough to my desk, so she dragged a blanket over on the floor right next to my feet so that she can curl up next to me in comfort. She asks for so little, really&#8212;just fresh water, kibble, a daily walk, and the company of her family. And in return she offers boundless love, loyalty, and vigilance. It&#8217;s a pretty excellent bargain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thora, a week shy of five months. She had a vet check today and weighed in at 55 pounds. Some people mistake her for a full-grown hound dog, but most can tell that she&#8217;s still just a puppy (and are able to conclude that she&#8217;s gonna be huge)! We&#8217;ve started taking her to the dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}