{"id":10207,"date":"2011-10-16T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2011-10-16T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T14:15:09","slug":"whose-side-is-your-vet-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/whose-side-is-your-vet-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Side Is Your Vet On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question for newspaper vet Dr. Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/pets\/columns\/dr-fox\/article_3b9d8e77-9d8a-5f25-bc49-5aec33afec6d.html\" target=\"_blank\">begins with an attack on the pet owner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Dr. Fox \u2022 My cat has developed a worrying habit. She is 12 years old and is very fit \u2014 she catches at least two animals a week. But recently, she has been panting heavily after any small amount of exercise. A friend suggested she might have diabetes. \u2014 R.E.O., Winston-Salem, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>Dear R.E.O. \u2022 It disturbs me that you allow your cat outdoors to kill wild creatures on a regular basis. Cats like yours have a collective negative impact on wildlife in many areas, killing ground-nesting birds, fledgling songbirds and small mammals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forget your peace of mind and the health of your cat.  <em><strong>Who will speak for the vermin?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Memo to Dr. Fox: Cats don&#8217;t have to go outside to catch prey.  Our oldest cat, 15, lived for a year outside, but since he&#8217;s come back into the house, he&#8217;s caught lizards that somehow sneak in and even had a confrontation with a snake in the middle of our family room one evening.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I like animals, but I seem to be the last animal liker who realizes that animals are just, you know, animals.  They shouldn&#8217;t have the right to vote, and their potential liberators do not have the right to harangue.  Jeez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question for newspaper vet Dr. Fox begins with an attack on the pet owner: Dear Dr. Fox \u2022 My cat has developed a worrying habit. She is 12 years old and is very fit \u2014 she catches at least two animals a week. But recently, she has been panting heavily after any small amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}