{"id":8980,"date":"2024-04-21T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2024-04-21T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:55:53","slug":"woman-was-on-waitlist-to-adopt-a-puppy-but-senior-golden-retriever-wins-her-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"Woman was on waitlist to adopt a puppy \u2014 but senior golden retriever wins her heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s always sad when older dogs end up in shelters. Senior dogs, especially ones with medical needs, are often passed over in favor of younger puppies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When one senior dog had to search for a new home after the death of his owner, the odds seemed against him \u2014 but when one woman met him she knew it was meant to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In November, Golden Retriever Rescue of Southwest Florida\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=763013309203873&amp;set=a.567825118722694\">shared the<\/a>\u00a0\u201cheartbreaking story\u201d of a 13-year-old golden retriever named Mickey, who was now homeless after his owner died after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=8983\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8733 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Readmore-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always sad when older dogs end up in shelters. Senior dogs, especially ones with medical needs, are often passed over in favor of younger puppies. When one senior dog had to search for a new home after the death of his owner, the odds seemed against him \u2014 but when one woman met him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=8980\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Woman was on waitlist to adopt a puppy \u2014 but senior golden retriever wins her heart&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8981,"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\/8980"}],"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=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}