{"id":528,"date":"2012-04-26T04:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/?p=528"},"modified":"2012-04-26T04:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:07:16","slug":"zen-turns-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Zen Turns ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe a whole year has gone by since our puppy was born. She is now officially a teenager… and a really really great one at that. I’ve been really absent the last 5 months in terms of doing actual posts with content. Mostly i’ve been posting pictures and saving the updates for friends. But I can’t tell you how much we have learned about training and dog ownership during this time. I want to save this discussion for a later post because I find the subject of dog training really fascinating and also controversial. One thing is for sure: what works for one doesn’t always work for another but you can put money down that everyone and their brother has an opinion about how to do it! I also want to talk more about the controversy about pure-bred dogs vs mixed dogs.. as it’s really been a hot topic in the media lately. <\/p>\n

But for now, I will post photos of her birthday party. It was a small family affair. I baked a dog cake for it; it’s a peanut butter carrot cake with yogurt frosting. I got the recipe from HERE<\/a>. The kids really got into her party and could stop talking about it for days beforehand. They had fun wrapping kibble up as presents, and Papa and I got her a fresh bone from the butcher. <\/p>\n

She also got another present.. one that is not so nice. The vet called and let us know that some tests came back and she has Giardiasis<\/a>. But between the probiatic and the wormer we I picked up today.. we are all set. <\/p>\n

\"birthday<\/a>

I made a peanut butter carrot cake with yogurt frosting. And natural milk bones for decoration. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"party<\/a>

Maiwenn was really excited to make Zen a party hat. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"good<\/a>

It didn't stand up by itself, so Maiwenn had to hold it up. Zen was a really good sport about the whole thing. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"make<\/a>

We had to help her blow out the candle. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"small<\/a>

we weren't sure how the human food would be in her tummy, so we played it safe. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"good!\"<\/a>

Not too sweet. I used honey for the cake and the frosting was just plain yogurt. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"presents\"<\/a>

These were the presents. The wrapped ones were from the kids and had kibble. The fresh meat bone from the butcher was from Papa and I. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"want\"<\/a>

Zen REALLY wanted that bone. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"patient\"<\/a>

She waited for the release command before attacking it. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"nom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"good<\/a>

She's such a good girl. We are so lucky to have her. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe a whole year has gone by since our puppy was born. She is now officially a teenager… and a really really great one at that. I’ve been really absent the last 5 months in terms of doing actual posts with content. Mostly i’ve been posting pictures and saving the updates for friends. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordanyoung.com\/dogsdearly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}