{"id":798,"date":"2020-05-30T21:13:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T02:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=798"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T02:36:57","slug":"dogs-whats-in-it-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2020\/05\/30\/dogs-whats-in-it-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs: What’s in it for us?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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b to f: Wesley, Roscoe, & Farley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh noes, The Grump as a soft side!\u00a0 *gasp*\u00a0 Horrors.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0 That soft side is dogs, and at the risk of outing himself, the Grump will be randomly pondering things about the love and bond between dogs and people.\u00a0 Put yer seat belts on!<\/p>\n

It seems like a totally one-way relationship, doesn’t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Think about it.\u00a0 You feed your dog, they don’t feed you.\u00a0 You brush your dog, they don’t brush you.\u00a0 You pet your dog and rub their belly, they don’t pet you and they certainly don’t rub your belly.\u00a0 If you’re sick you take them to the vet and make sure you get better… though I have had dogs that would lay next to me to comfort me if I’m sick even though they couldn’t do anything else.<\/p>\n

Yet people love their dogs!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that last part is what I’m getting at.\u00a0 It’s more of a two-way street than is obvious on surface observation.\u00a0 Dogs just make us feel good.\u00a0 But how do they do that?\u00a0 Well…<\/p>\n

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  1. When you come home after a long day at work your dog will try to break down all barriers to see you.\u00a0 They’re sooooo happy to see you.\u00a0 You won’t get that kind on outward unbridled excitement from any human.\u00a0 The cat, meanwhile, is plotting your demise… as soon as it can figure out a continuing food supply.<\/li>\n
  2. As mentioned above, if you’re in bed with the flu, your dog will lay by your side to comfort you.\u00a0 There’s nothing they can physically do for you, but they can stay with you so you’re not alone.<\/li>\n
  3. Dogs are fiercely loyal, even when they shouldn’t be.\u00a0 But if you love them and treat them right you truly have a best friend.<\/li>\n
  4. Last, let’s say you’re laying on the bed and you’re doing what I call “servicing” your dog, meaning you’re scratching their ear and head, petting them, rubbing their belly, and all that good stuff they never seem to tire of.\u00a0 While you’re doing all this you can FEEL their love radiating back into you.\u00a0 That’s powerful.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now, I have no scientific evidence for all this, but I believe it to be true, and it makes it all worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Oh noes, The Grump as a soft side!\u00a0 *gasp*\u00a0 Horrors.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0 That soft side is dogs, and at the risk of outing himself, the Grump will be randomly pondering things about the love and bond between dogs and people.\u00a0 Put yer seat belts on! It seems like a totally one-way relationship, doesn’t it? Think about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}