{"id":131,"date":"2007-02-10T19:48:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T00:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-02-10T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T00:48:45","slug":"dont-rat-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/10\/dont-rat-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t rat on me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the expression &quot;Keeping up with the Joneses&quot;? What if you are a dog and your version of the &quot;Joneses&quot; are the three cats next door?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our dog Sue has developed a talent for catching <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/sue3.jpg\" title=\"Sue with rat\" alt=\"Sue with rat\" height=\"239\" width=\"275\" \/> and killing rats. When she has been on a successful hunt, she proudly brings her victim to the front door of the house, apparently intent on entering the house with her &quot;trophy&quot;. We like our dog, but we don&#8217;t like dead rats, so that is out of the question! The three cats next door occasionally catch rats, too, but generally they don&#8217;t stray too far from the house. By contrast, Sue takes off into the woods and nearby low marshy areas where she appears to have a field day with her newly discovered sport. With her electric dog collar with its quarter-mile range, Sue has learned to return to the house at the sound of a beep. Which is good &ndash; as long as she doesn&#8217;t have a rat between her teeth! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the expression &quot;Keeping up with the Joneses&quot;? What if you are a dog and your version of the &quot;Joneses&quot; are the three cats next door?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-in-the-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}