{"id":77,"date":"2011-12-12T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-05-05T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T02:20:46","slug":"every-pet-is-a-tiny-tragedy-waiting-to-happen-george-carlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Every pet is a tiny tragedy waiting to happen. &#8211;George Carlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kismet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-116\" title=\"Kismet\" src=\"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kismet-998x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kismet-998x1024.jpg 998w, https:\/\/belegaer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kismet-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/belegaer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Kismet.jpg 1693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a>Kismet has been in failing health for some time.<\/p>\n<p>We had made the decision this morning to euthanize her, as her good days seemed to be vanishing. There is always a second-guessing when euthanizing a pet, a damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don&#8217;t balancing act between ending a life to soon, and letting an animal suffer because you don&#8217;t want to make the decision.<\/p>\n<p>When we brought her in, the vet determined that she had metastized abdominal cancer. It was no longer a question of whether she would die soon, just whether she would die peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell, kiddo. You had a rough first five years, and a great last ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kismet has been in failing health for some time. We had made the decision this morning to euthanize her, as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/?p=77\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belegaer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}