{"id":94,"date":"2014-09-15T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/a-dog-is-not-just-a-pet\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T22:15:08","slug":"a-dog-is-not-just-a-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2014\/a-dog-is-not-just-a-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dog is Not Just a Pet by Gerry Orz, age 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onfocus=\"this.blur()\" onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'Jul_Jul_and_I.jpg','960','720');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jul_Jul_and_I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" height=\"113\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" title=\"Jul_Jul_and_I.jpg\" alt=\"Jul_Jul_and_I.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/.Jul_Jul_and_I.jpg\" \/><\/a>Now, my dog is about 11 months old &#8211; she&#8217;s turning one in October. The first year of her life was not easy. She was a runt of the litter so her immune system was weak. In the first six months with us she survived pneumonia, battled internal bleeding and went through a pretty serious surgery.<\/p>\n<p>When we think about dogs, cats, fish even lizards, the first word that comes to mind is &#8230; PETS. But are they really? No, all these species are our family members. Maybe to someone all of them are just animals, but to us my little Juliet (Jul-Jul) is a daughter to my mothers and a sister to me and my brother. Just as our three cats.<\/p>\n<p>When we were worried that the future didn&#8217;t look very promising for my adorable puppy, I was heartbroken. I can&#8217;t imagine losing her and I think a lot of pet owners can relate to this. Our pets are family and are being cared for like children. I know my puppy today come to my room when I was in bed and licked my face to make me feel better. When I am under the weather or just sad, it makes feel much better. You can&#8217;t buy or fake an unconditional love like this. So,\u00a0 people who think animals aren&#8217;t that big of a deal and think that they don&#8217;t have feelings are completely wrong. Animals are just like us- they care for us and they love us. They can even be a little bit sassy like my 4-legged sister, &#8220;Jul!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, my dog is about 11 months old &#8211; she&#8217;s turning one in October. The first year of her life was not easy. She was a runt of the litter so her immune system was weak. In the first six months with us she survived pneumonia, battled internal bleeding and went through a pretty serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-critics-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}