{"id":23745,"date":"2025-07-17T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:40:39","slug":"he-said-the-dogs-would-freak-out-but-they-did-something-none-of-us-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23745","title":{"rendered":"He Said the Dogs Would Freak Out\u2014But They Did Something None of Us Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was nervous all week. Wouldn\u2019t admit it out loud, but I could tell. Every time I mentioned introducing the baby to the dogs, he\u2019d just tighten his jaw and nod. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d he kept saying.<\/p>\n<p>These dogs were his before they were ours. They slept at his feet through the worst days of his depression. They watched his last relationship fall apart. And they bark at everything\u2014the mailman, falling leaves, even FaceTime rings.<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CJTdzoTmw44DFbhZpAQdvhY1Ew\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23747\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was nervous all week. Wouldn\u2019t admit it out loud, but I could tell. Every time I mentioned introducing the baby to the dogs, he\u2019d just tighten his jaw and nod. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d he kept saying. These dogs were his before they were ours. They slept at his feet through the worst&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23745\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;He Said the Dogs Would Freak Out\u2014But They Did Something None of Us Expected&rdquo;<\/span> &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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23758,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions\/23758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}