{"id":554,"date":"2009-03-12T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-03-12T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T13:06:08","slug":"my-stupid-dewclaw-and-my-stupid-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2009\/03\/12\/my-stupid-dewclaw-and-my-stupid-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"My Stupid Dewclaw (and my Stupid Dad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning dad came in and picked me up. He said he was worried about me, and wondered why I was hiding in his office so early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Now he knows better than to doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>I squirmed when he picked me up, and when I landed on the ground, my stupid dewclaw on my left paw broke&#8230; <em>again<\/em>. It seems like it&#8217;s always catching on something and breaking.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a broken dewclaw bleeds a bit, and when dad saw the blood, he sort of <em>freaked out<\/em>. And then he <em>picked me up again<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He just doesn&#8217;t get it, does he?<\/p>\n<p>So I had to sit still for a while on the kitchen counter while he held a paper towel around my paw to stop the bleeding. (I think it would&#8217;ve been fine if he&#8217;d just left me alone, I could&#8217;ve licked it to stop the bleeding y&#8217;know.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally dad put me down and then went to clean himself up, leaving me to lick my paw properly. (It doesn&#8217;t even hurt anymore, honestly.)<\/p>\n<p>When dad came back out with breakfast, my paw was just fine, and Betsy and I dug into breakfast. But I&#8217;m going to keep a wide berth from dad for the next day or so &#8211; just in case he feels the need to &#8220;check up&#8221; on my paw!<\/p>\n<p>-Gus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2008\/02\/28\/dads-been-taking-pictures-again\/guss-newer-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"212,158\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Gus&amp;#8217;s Newer Portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-128\" title=\"Gus's Newer Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gus's Newer Portrait\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning dad came in and picked me up. He said he was worried about me, and wondered why I was hiding in his office so early in the morning. Now he knows better than to doubt me. I squirmed when he picked me up, and when I landed on the ground, my stupid dewclaw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","tag-bunny-behavior","tag-gus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-8W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}