{"id":2250,"date":"2009-02-21T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2009\/02\/21\/puppy-class\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T01:50:03","slug":"puppy-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2009\/02\/21\/puppy-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orion started out very intimidated by the store.&nbsp; He wouldn&#8217;t follow me in on the lead, so I had to pick him up and carry his trembling body into the corner where class was held.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petfinder.com\/shelters\/4pawsrescue.html\">4PAWS Rescue<\/a> had a bunch of dogs for placement in another part of the store, and he was flinching when the dogs in that area barked.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Then he discovered that whatever we were doing involved food.&nbsp; Life started looking up.&nbsp; When he discovered that the nice lady in the middle of the class area had something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biljac.com\/store\/treatsmain.asp\">Bil-Jac Pet Treats<\/a>, we had 100% of his attention.&nbsp; He stopped trembling, stopped wanting to hide behind me or between my legs, and paid no attention to the dogs and noises in the rest of the store.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>He even played with the nice lady&#8217;s one year old Malamute after class.&nbsp; Kodiak is a gorgeous dog, also a rescue, and managed to restrain his exuberance sufficiently that he was able to play with Orion without scaring him.<\/p>\n<p>Orion received lots of complements on his cuteness.&nbsp; And on the way out of the store, he wanted to visit with the other dogs, rather than acting shy of them. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orion started out very intimidated by the store.&nbsp; He wouldn&#8217;t follow me in on the lead, so I had to pick him up and carry his trembling body into the corner where class was held.&nbsp; 4PAWS Rescue had a bunch of dogs for placement in another part of the store, and he was flinching when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2009\/02\/21\/puppy-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Class<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}