{"id":970,"date":"2012-10-30T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2012-10-30T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:01:36","slug":"two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago my baby boy was two.\u00a0 He spent much of his time pretending to be a dog. \u00a0 So we got him a four legged friend; a\u00a0purebred retired show dog named Riddick.\u00a0 Riddick, the smooth fox terrier, was named after a Vin Diesel movie character, and he had plenty of character himself.\u00a0\u00a0 He needed a home and we needed a dog to adopt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I had always intended my crew of kids to have pets for their childhood years, a lot of that came out of my being raised on a farm that bustled with animals of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>An ad was put up, online, introducing our family of six and how we desired to adopt an older dog.\u00a0 The replies came pouring in, most wanting a large sum and much fussing for &#8216;fancy mutts&#8217;.\u00a0 Riddick&#8217;s owner got my attention by encouraging me let her meet us.\u00a0 I had seen her ad and assumed he was out of our league and told her so.\u00a0 She said to let her figure that out after our meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I assume she was as smitten with us as we were with Riddick that first October night we meet him.\u00a0 She let us have him.\u00a0 We rushed out to get doggy beds, food, crates and more.\u00a0 Our &#8216;getting to know you&#8217; phase began.\u00a0 We had a wobbly start with episodes such as the dog climbing on to my kitchen counters, or my kids forgetting to walk him, or my youngest bopping Riddick on the nose as they duked out the\u00a0pecking order around here.\u00a0 My boy won that fight and Riddick mellowed out.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/198702_10151020575077127_1557090372_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-976\" title=\"198702_10151020575077127_1557090372_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/198702_10151020575077127_1557090372_n-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/198702_10151020575077127_1557090372_n-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/198702_10151020575077127_1557090372_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The learning curve, all the work involved, was work it.\u00a0 We adore his quieter demeanour, as well as his ability to be both crazy fun to play with but a total pussy cat, as far as relaxing, when in the house.\u00a0 He has become OUR DOG over the course of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Always Lady Mac an Rothaich<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago my baby boy was two.\u00a0 He spent much of his time pretending to be a dog. \u00a0 So we got him a four legged friend; a\u00a0purebred retired show dog named Riddick.\u00a0 Riddick, the smooth fox terrier, was named after a Vin Diesel movie character, and he had plenty of character himself.\u00a0\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9,5,22,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}