{"id":6085,"date":"2011-09-20T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2011-09-20T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:00:53","slug":"in-which-she-uses-neutering-the-cat-as-a-cautionary-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/in-which-she-uses-neutering-the-cat-as-a-cautionary-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"In which she uses neutering the cat as a cautionary tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>o we&#8217;re emasculating poor Willie the Cat today.  Or, as Simon so eloquently put it, &#8220;he&#8217;s getting his neuters taken out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This whole neutering thing has provided an unexpected wealth of teachable moments.  We&#8217;ve recently had conversations with the boys about the responsibilities of pet ownership, about the differences between males and females of various species, and even some rudimentary sex education.<\/p>\n<p>I think the big takeaway, though, is this one: don&#8217;t mess with mom or she&#8217;ll have your balls cut off.  That&#8217;s a good message for three boys to internalize, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5859341233\/\" title=\"Willie for the blog 2 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5187\/5859341233_3a34254f1e.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Willie for the blog 2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo caption: &#8220;You&#8217;re gonna WHAT my WHAT now??!)<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Willie.  But thanks for the cautionary tail &#8212; erm, tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re emasculating poor Willie the Cat today. Or, as Simon so eloquently put it, &#8220;he&#8217;s getting his neuters taken out.&#8221; This whole neutering thing has provided an unexpected wealth of teachable moments. We&#8217;ve recently had conversations with the boys about the responsibilities of pet ownership, about the differences between males and females of various &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/in-which-she-uses-neutering-the-cat-as-a-cautionary-tail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which she uses neutering the cat as a cautionary tail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothering-without-a-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}