{"id":245,"date":"2006-12-07T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2007-01-22T02:30:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T02:30:23","slug":"one-sick-puppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/one-sick-puppy\/","title":{"rendered":"one sick puppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use to take some degree of pride in never having set foot in the Smokey Mountains.   I preferred Paris to Pigeon Forge and Nuremberg to that Gatlin place.  I was awful like that.  Anyway, a few weeks ago I had to pay a visit  to the University of Tennessee&#8217;s School of Veterinary Medicine after hearing on strict authority they were the best of the best.  (As a side, The Small Animal Clinic there was far superior, and in better form than any NHS Hospital I&#8217;ve seen in England.  Ever.)  The patient in question was my mother&#8217;s 2-year-old 3-pound Yorkshire Terrier, Muffy.  Yes.  Muffy.  The prognosis &#8211; bad.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/savemuffy.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Muffy (c) Holt\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-savemuffy.jpg\" alt=\"Muffy (c) Holt\"\/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muffy has both congenital and acquired portosystemic liver shunts.  And even though shunts are what the folks at Tennessee do best they weren&#8217;t able to help her.  At all.  So, her days are numbered&#8230;drastically.  She&#8217;s a bouncy little thing most of the time, but this could change at any moment.  Arrangements have already been made with the local vet to attend upon my mother&#8217;s home when the time comes.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really an animal person, rumours to the contrary aside.  But this even breaks <em>my<\/em> heart. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use to take some degree of pride in never having set foot in the Smokey Mountains. I preferred Paris to Pigeon Forge and Nuremberg to that Gatlin place. I was awful like that. Anyway, a few weeks ago I had to pay a visit to the University of Tennessee&#8217;s School of Veterinary Medicine after<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}