{"id":24453,"date":"2025-07-25T00:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:03:35","slug":"my-great-aunt-never-owned-a-pet-but-this-dog-keeps-visiting-her-and-she-calls-him-colonel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24453","title":{"rendered":"My Great-Aunt Never Owned a Pet\u2014But This Dog Keeps Visiting Her and She Calls Him \u201cColonel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s 97. Sharp as ever, just stuck in that wheelchair after the fall. We visit once a week, sometimes twice. But lately, it\u2019s not us she\u2019s been waiting for\u2014it\u2019s the dog.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not part of the facility\u2019s therapy program. No vest, no handler. He just shows up at 3:40 p.m. sharp, sits by her door like he owns the place, and lets her rest her hand on his head like it\u2019s the most natural thing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The staff say they\u2019ve never seen him come in. He doesn\u2019t eat, doesn\u2019t bark, just waits.<\/p>\n<p>The weirdest part is what she says to him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24455\"><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s 97. Sharp as ever, just stuck in that wheelchair after the fall. We visit once a week, sometimes twice. But lately, it\u2019s not us she\u2019s been waiting for\u2014it\u2019s the dog. He\u2019s not part of the facility\u2019s therapy program. No vest, no handler. He just shows up at 3:40 p.m. sharp, sits by her door&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24453\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My Great-Aunt Never Owned a Pet\u2014But This Dog Keeps Visiting Her and She Calls Him \u201cColonel\u201d&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\/24453"}],"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=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24470,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions\/24470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}