{"id":13598,"date":"2013-09-30T07:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=13598"},"modified":"2013-09-30T07:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T13:06:43","slug":"transition-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/09\/transition-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3099.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3099.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been 17 years since I&#8217;ve had a kitten.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot how, despite their diminutive size &#8211; they can go anywhere &#8211; and &#8220;faster than a speeding bullet&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3169.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3169.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auggie is very smart and very aware. <\/p>\n<p>When Bear and I go outside, he knows.<\/p>\n<p>And he watches.  <\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s nothing wrong with Bear, I just caught him in a funny position as he was getting up and stretching.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3173.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3173.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things are calming between Bear and Auggie.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making sure I move and speak normally and allow them to get used to each other without fanfare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3174.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3174.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are both curious but both unsure and one hiss from Auggie can start Bear barking or else he turns to me and voices a long beardog sentence of complaint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3190.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3190.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bear and I made a trip to the pet store for new toys all around as well as some scratching posts.  Auggie knows &#8220;No&#8221;, but I needed something to redirect him to.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3195.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3195.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a mouse to practice on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3194.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3194.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rare moment of stillness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3203.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3203.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making sure that Bear and I keep to our routine as much as possible: walks at the same time, a Jeep ride &#8211; our special times for things &#8211; just the two of us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3204.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep13\/First3204.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 17 years since I&#8217;ve had a kitten. I forgot how, despite their diminutive size &#8211; they can go anywhere &#8211; and &#8220;faster than a speeding bullet&#8221;! Auggie is very smart and very aware. When Bear and I go outside, he knows. And he watches. (There&#8217;s nothing wrong with Bear, I just caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13605,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598\/revisions\/13605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}