{"id":755693,"date":"2018-12-27T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755693"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:20:08","slug":"a-dogs-life-what-would-i-sacrifice-for-the-animal-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755693","title":{"rendered":"A dog\u2019s life: What would I sacrifice for the animal I love?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>People who have not loved a dog will never experience the most honest, pure and unconditional relationship a human can have. But to love a dog is to sign up for heartbreak. You\u2019ll surely outlive them.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHAWNA RICHER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A three-year-old Labrador retriever\/Border collie rescue, Scout has the ears, short black coat and webbed toes of a black Lab, and the markings, feathery tail and behind, size and temperament of a Border collie. She\u2019s intelligent, athletic, obsessive, sometimes anxious and compulsively protective. I haven\u2019t been in the bathroom alone since the day I brought her home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>People who have not loved a dog will never experience the most honest, pure and unconditional relationship a human can have. But to love a dog is to sign up for heartbreak. You\u2019ll surely outlive them. Accidents occur and illness happens. When you love a dog, you have a say over a life that has a price on it. You know the judgment that comes from loving a pet so much you\u2019d do just about anything for it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>And as I lay on the bed with her in those early morning hours, I wondered how far I would go for her. Was there anything I wouldn\u2019t do? I already knew the answer, but I still wasn\u2019t prepared for what was to come&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-a-dogs-life-what-would-i-sacrifice-for-the-animal-i-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE..<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WbIRxTu-qtc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHAWNA RICHER: &#8216;A three-year-old Labrador retriever\/Border collie rescue, Scout has the ears, short black coat and webbed toes of a black Lab, and the markings, feathery tail and behind, size and temperament of a Border collie. She\u2019s intelligent, athletic, obsessive, sometimes anxious and compulsively protective. I haven\u2019t been in the bathroom alone since the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,25],"tags":[26,35,36],"class_list":["post-755693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisnship","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-protection","tag-sentience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755695,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755693\/revisions\/755695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}