{"id":14715,"date":"2022-09-11T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:05:10","slug":"dogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14715","title":{"rendered":"Dogging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s something in the water. Or the air. Or the food. Or all three. Something, some&#8230; weird&#8230; thing. It has had an affect on us&#8230; me&#8230; us&#8230; whatever. Anyway, this thing. It&#8217;s had a life-changing effect. The lives of the four resident cats have been changed. The lives of the four resident humans have been changed. And the lives of the two resident dogs have been changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a fit of what can only be described in polite circles as complete and utter lunacy, the size of the doggy herd has doubled. For over a week now, our family has grown to four spaniels when two nine-week old sibling puppies joined the gang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my&#8230; our&#8230; whatever&#8230; defence, we were only planning to increase the spanner collective by one, and we had the one picked out. But the runt of the litter looked so cute in all his under-developed scrawnyness that it was easy to offer him what we feel will be the best ever home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are still in a period of shock and adjustment, but the two puppers are settling in and causing havoc and mayhem (which, in retrospect, would have been good names for them!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four cats, four dogs, four humans. I think that&#8217;s where we should stop now. Probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220906_155901-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220906_155901-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220906_155901-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220906_155901-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220906_155901-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Sssshhhhhh!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something in the water. Or the air. Or the food. Or all three. Something, some&#8230; weird&#8230; thing. It has had an affect on us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}