{"id":1132,"date":"2008-05-07T02:02:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2008-05-07T02:03:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T06:03:17","slug":"something-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Something Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Zoe. She is my fun-loving little shadow dog.<\/p>\n

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This is her as a puppy, this is the photo I fell in love with. I saw her face online and I just knew, I knew<\/i>, she had to be mine.<\/p>\n

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And this is her all grown up:<\/p>\n

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I stumbled across that puppy photo just now, rearranging some files on my computer. I opened it up and stared, smiling and tearing up at how little she was. I find it hard to remember what I saw when I first found her listed on Petfinder. Did I see the fear in her eyes? I certainly never imagined she’d grow up looking like she does. But now when I gaze at her precious puppy photo I see Zoe as she is today. I see her playfulness and trusting nature. I see her love and loyalty. And, yes, I still see her anxiousness. She never really grew out of that – but at least it only surfaces in predictable bursts, in between an attitude of sheer joy for life.<\/p>\n

I love that little dog. She has the kind of personality that can brighten you no matter what. She can get bitchy with her big brother, but she has a remarkably positive attitude, even for a dog. She doesn’t sulk, she doesn’t plot. She doesn’t get angry. She never argues with anything. She LOVES to play, but the minute you trap her – grab her nose, pin her down – she goes immediately limp and just starts wagging her tail furiously. “Oh darn, you got me!” she’d laugh if she could speak. She does get scared – but the moment the scary moment has passed she’s wagging her tail and grinning like only a dog can.<\/p>\n

It could have been hard to have that around in my grief. It could have. But she doesn’t fake it. She isn’t trying to cheer me up, she isn’t wishing I would forget my pain. She’s just taking the moment for what it is, treasuring it, enjoying it, living it. And that’s all there is to her.<\/p>\n

Frankly that sounds like a wonderful way to live life right now.<\/p>\n

And when I can’t, well, then I can look over at my weird little dog rolling around on her back, bone in her mouth, growling and kicking her legs wildly in the air in a way that defies any common logic, and laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Zoe. She is my fun-loving little shadow dog. This is her as a puppy, this is the photo I fell in love with. I saw her face online and I just knew, I knew, she had to be mine. And this is her all grown up: I stumbled across that puppy photo just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-furkids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}