{"id":3317,"date":"2019-03-13T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2019-03-13T03:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:57:41","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-your-cat-a-support-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Your Cat&#8211;a Support Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LilyShoe-e1523271416484-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LilyShoe-e1523271416484-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LilyShoe-e1523271416484-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LilyShoe-e1523271416484.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Yesterday we talked about support animals on planes. I heard someone say the other day that all pets can be considered therapy pets. Isn\u2019t there truth in that statement? Don\u2019t you find comfort in your cat, for example? He brings you joy, calms you, makes you laugh (and we all know that laughter is therapeutic).<\/p>\n<p>Your cat is good company, she gives you a reason to come home. When you have a pet you must care for it and when you care for another human being or animal it feeds your need to be needed.<\/p>\n<p>A pet can make you feel good about yourself because she loves and appreciates you unconditionally. And there\u2019s nothing like sharing life and living with another being even if it\u2019s a furry species and wants to share your pizza or your cookie-crumble ice cream and your bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we talked about support animals on planes. I heard someone say the other day that all pets can be considered therapy pets. Isn\u2019t there truth in that statement? Don\u2019t you find comfort in your cat, for example? He brings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3317\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}