{"id":283,"date":"2011-08-08T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjjblog.maryjanesfarm.org\/wordpress\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-08-08T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:46:56","slug":"give-the-dog-a-broken-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/283","title":{"rendered":"Give the Dog a Broken Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\u201cGet out\u201d is what I WON\u2018T be saying to my 104 pound, hair-shedding Great Pyrenees dog, one of two white (and often muddy) farm dogs that are supposed to be my OUTSIDE doggie-poohs. (I do love these girls. Pyrenees are sooooooooo gentle and stoical and kind and well-behaved.)<\/p>\n

Well, one of my Pyrs (peers) pulled off an INSIDE job when she broke her foot. And because she\u2019ll be in a cast for six weeks, I let the pampering begin.<\/p>\n

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(Right. I already make their food in a crock-pot, feed them greens I grow, brush their teeth, groom them daily, worry, and love them more than is rational.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where my greenhouse is these days\u2014lots of tender kale and spinach being grown in my horse-trough gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The big and little of it is this. Here\u2019s my canary, Daffodil, and here\u2019s her new roommate, Periwinkle. They actually like each other.<\/p>\n

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It all began the day my pregnant Jersey milk cow, Chocolate, backed up and stepped on Periwinkle\u2019s foot. Yowlzer!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not so much worried about her getting soft and comfortable with our new arrangement; it\u2019s me I\u2019m worried about. I\u2019ve never had an inside dog before, and you know what? I\u2019m quite liking it. She hasn\u2019t barked once (she knows she\u2019s in my house), but she did wake up with me the other night when some coyotes started howling right outside my open bedroom window. The moon was full and our primal moment together was, well, bonding. However, her sister is still out with my cows and horses and acting a little lost. Two inside Great Pyrenees? I think not, but it\u2019s tempting. Somebody please, come and lock me up before I… Or tell me about someone who has turned Pomeranians into good livestock guards.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGet out\u201d is what I WON\u2018T be saying to my 104 pound, hair-shedding Great Pyrenees dog, one of two white (and often muddy) farm dogs that are supposed to be my OUTSIDE doggie-poohs. (I do love these girls. Pyrenees are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[135,177,222,338,350,390,392,545,685],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get_out","tag-canary","tag-chocolate","tag-daffodil","tag-garden","tag-get-out","tag-great-pyrenees","tag-greenhouse","tag-maryjane","tag-periwinkle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}