{"id":1492,"date":"2020-04-18T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2020-04-17T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:12:49","slug":"its-zaturday-search-and-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/its-zaturday-search-and-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Zaturday – Search and Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy’s blog!<\/p>\n

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Image by Manfred Burdich<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ziggy here. You\u2019re probably wondering why I\u2019m starting out with a picture of a dog. No, I\u2019m not having an identity crisis. It\u2019s because Mommy has been talking a lot about dogs lately. She just finished writing a book about a search and rescue dog, and she\u2019s really excited about it. Zorro and I think she\u2019s a little too excited. She keeps talking about search and rescue dogs and how what they do is so interesting. Like how dogs have 600 million scent receptors in their noses and people have only 6 million. (I guess she didn\u2019t even bother to look up how many cats have.)<\/p>\n

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Image by Ana_J<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mommy\u2019s been saying a bunch of other things about search and rescue dogs, too. Like how they have to get used to a bunch of different sights and smells and sounds. And how they learn to walk on all kinds of uneven surfaces, even climb ladders. And how they are able to pick one person\u2019s scent out of a whole bunch of other smells.<\/p>\n

But not all dogs can do search and rescue. Mommy said they have to be tested first to make sure they\u2019re friendly and not aggressive. Zorro and I would pass that test, because we\u2019re not aggressive and we\u2019re both friendly. I\u2019m friendlier than Zorro, though, because he\u2019s afraid of strangers. When someone that we don\u2019t know comes over, Zorro hides, but I run up and rub against their legs. I always hope they\u2019ll feed me, but they never do. I usually get petted, though, which is kind of nice.<\/p>\n

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Oh, yeah, back to search and rescue dogs and how Mommy keeps going on about how talented and smart and wonderful they are. Zorro and I are starting to get a little worried. The next thing you know, she\u2019s going to be bringing home a puppy.<\/p>\n

Mommy seems really impressed, but we can\u2019t figure out what\u2019s the big deal. After all, cats are good at finding things, too. And we\u2019re really stealthy. If a bad guy was breaking into a store to steal cat toys, we could sneak up on him a lot easier than a dog. I bet we could find a missing child, too. Especially if he rolled in catnip. I don\u2019t even mind wearing a leash. Mommy and Daddy make Zorro and I both wear leashes and harnesses when we travel.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t see any reason why Zorro and I can\u2019t be trained to do search and rescue. In fact, I think that\u2019s what Mommy\u2019s next book needs to be about\u2014a search and rescue cat, starring\u2026me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy’s blog! Ziggy here. You\u2019re probably wondering why I\u2019m starting out with a picture of a dog. No, I\u2019m not having an identity crisis. It\u2019s because Mommy has been talking a lot about dogs lately. She just finished writing a book about a search and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[29,4,97],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-zaturday-when-ziggy-and-zorro-take-over","tag-cats","tag-humor","tag-search-and-rescue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}