{"id":5045,"date":"2012-08-26T21:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2012-10-03T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:04:35","slug":"the-foster-chronicles-tulip-week-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/the-foster-chronicles-tulip-week-21-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foster Chronicles: Tulip, Week 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know Tulip? Start <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=4141\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Days 1-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. All the days and breakfasts and poops and walks are blending together. I do know that\u00a0<em>every night<\/em> we have to take a detour to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5030\">the loose dog from last week<\/a>, except one night when a <em>different<\/em> dog, a white dog that clearly belongs to the yard he runs out of, riles the shit out of my pack and makes my heart pound out of my chest.<\/p>\n<p>Leashes, people.<\/p>\n<p>Fences.<\/p>\n<p>Come on.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Tulip chewing on a deer antler\/being cute:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qQb1AjX0GsM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have an appointment with a volunteer from CCB to work on manners. She shows me how to get Tulip to approach a dog and then interrupt her and get her attention so she doesn&#8217;t come across as so intense to the other dog. The woman also suggests that I tether Tulip to something stationary in the yard and then walk Redford or Violet by her on the leash, let them realize it&#8217;s all good. Tulip doesn&#8217;t spend any time off leash during the session, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>She enjoys the hot dog treats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5057\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5057\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5057\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-11-300x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-11-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-11.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ll take a treat-based class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m busy squeezing an 8-month-old&#8217;s chubby thighs (my brother&#8217;s kid, not a stranger, though I don&#8217;t blame you if you wondered) and don&#8217;t get around to working with the dogs. We do go on a walk, and sure enough, we have to turn around because of the loose dog. Grrrr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tulip and I go to Auntie Wa&#8217;s house. Tulip <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=4792\">patrols the fence<\/a> for 45 minutes and then my niece and nephew chase her around the yard for another half an hour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5058\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5058\" title=\"IMG_1889\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1889-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1889-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1889-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When she gets tired of running and flops, they take turns jumping over her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She&#8217;s going to make some family with kids really happy one day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5061\">The Foster Chronicles: Tulip, Week 24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know Tulip? Start here. Days 1-4 I don&#8217;t know. All the days and breakfasts and poops and walks are blending together. I do know that\u00a0every night we have to take a detour to avoid the loose dog from last week, except one night when a different dog, a white dog that clearly belongs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/the-foster-chronicles-tulip-week-21-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Foster Chronicles: Tulip, Week 23<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}