{"id":3874,"date":"2010-09-23T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T17:26:30","slug":"my-dog-likes-cantaloupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/my-dog-likes-cantaloupe\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dog Likes Cantaloupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s up with that?<\/p>\n<p>I had to create a fruit dish and a vegetable platter for my mother-in-law&#8217;s 80th birthday recently. Her twin brother visited from Australia, and we had a wonderful time. So I did something I rarely do\u2014I bought a cantaloupe.<\/p>\n<p>I hate cantaloupe. I just don&#8217;t get the taste. It bothers me. In fact, as I think about it, the only melon I really, really like is of the water variety. Yum.<\/p>\n<p>So I had leftover cantaloupe, and then My Liege and I had to go out of town to move Youngest Son into residence at his university in another province (he won&#8217;t be home until Christmas, sob). I thought Eldest Son and his GF would eat up all the leftover fruit and vegetable platters while I was gone. Alas, they did not. I made short work of the vegetable platter as soon as I got home. But no way was I touching that cantaloupe.<\/p>\n<p>E.S. went through a cantaloupe stage in high school. I was buying them every week, and he&#8217;d gobble them up. However, he hasn&#8217;t requested a cantaloupe purchase in a\u00a0couple of years now. I thought I&#8217;d rubbed off on him.<\/p>\n<p>But he started eating the leftover cantaloupe. And then he discovered that Allie McBeagle loves it, too! She not only loves it, she adores it. She&#8217;d ravish an entire cantaloupe in one licking, I do believe. She just would not leave him alone while he enjoyed his slice.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, we discovered this weird note on the kitchen table. From the dog. Don&#8217;t ask me how it got there. But she was begging for cantaloupe. She was simply beside herself with wanting more. E.S. obliged. Since then, she made her life&#8217;s mission to leave these odd notes about cantaloupe all over the house\u2014until she and E.S. had consumed every last slice.<\/p>\n<p>Right now she&#8217;s looking up at me communicating with her eyes, &#8220;Buy more cantaloupe!&#8221; But I will not. Maybe next week.<\/p>\n<p>What weird thing (to you) does your dog (or other pet) like to consume? I&#8217;ve tried feeding Allie grapes and bananas, and she turns up her beagle nose. But whisper &#8220;cantaloupe&#8221; to her, and she&#8217;s goes crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s up with that? I had to create a fruit dish and a vegetable platter for my mother-in-law&#8217;s 80th birthday recently. Her twin brother visited from Australia, and we had a wonderful time. So I did something I rarely do\u2014I bought a cantaloupe. I hate cantaloupe. I just don&#8217;t get the taste. It bothers me.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/my-dog-likes-cantaloupe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Dog Likes Cantaloupe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-that","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}