{"id":676,"date":"2016-04-18T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-05-21T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:00:50","slug":"as-the-songs-go-by-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/as-the-songs-go-by-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love your humble animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four<\/span> fawns stood in the street over the creek in our subdivision as I was driving out for a beer yesterday evening.<\/strong> Four.  <\/strong><\/em>I\u2019m told it\u2019s unusual to see four fawns together, all skinny stilts and big ears and spots and not yet savvy about things like streets. Fawns and such have been a relief this week from the blaring dreariness of what humans have been up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a pet, this should be a cautionary tale. Americans spent $14.2 billion on veterinary care<\/a> for their pets in 2013\u2014and that doesn\u2019t include proprietary health diets and food supplements. Put another way, pet owners pay about $850 annually in veterinary expenses per dog, and about $575 per cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND YET AGAIN I WAS ONLY LEFT WITH NATURE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mysteries like these could be solved by more research, but how can we get vets to pay attention to the studies that have been done? It would help if professional bodies took a strong evidence-based stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve started to think that my gut is an asshole for another reason. If he\u2019s so smart, and always right, why the hell is he holding out on me? What does he know that he isn\u2019t telling my brain? Why does he know things that my brain doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to forget our connection to nature, when so little of what we interact with in our daily lives reminds us of the natural world it\u2019s all built upon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The first thing that comes to mind is their genuine presence. A child\u2019s laugh, or a dog\u2019s tail wagging, or a cat\u2019s purr all feel like money in the bank to me. I receive palpable pleasure when seeing their joy, and it makes me want to create more of it by playing with them or petting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would help if professional bodies took a strong evidence-based stand. I receive palpable pleasure when seeing their joy, and it makes me want to create more of it by playing with them or petting them. Put another way, pet owners pay about $850 annually in veterinary expenses per dog, and about $575 per cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mysteries like these could be solved by more research, but how can we get vets to pay attention to the studies that have been done? It would help if professional bodies took a strong evidence-based stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A child\u2019s laugh, or a dog\u2019s tail wagging, or a cat\u2019s purr all feel like money in the bank to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve started to think that my gut is an asshole for another reason. If he\u2019s so smart, and always right, why the hell is he holding out on me? What does he know that he isn\u2019t telling my brain? Why does he know things that my brain doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a pet, this should be a cautionary tale. Americans spent $14.2 billion on veterinary care<\/a> for their pets in 2013\u2014and that doesn\u2019t include proprietary health diets and food supplements. Put another way, pet owners pay about $850 annually in veterinary expenses per dog, and about $575 per cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m told it\u2019s unusual to see four fawns together, all skinny stilts and big ears and spots and not yet savvy about things like streets. Fawns and such have been a relief this week from the blaring dreariness of what humans have been up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protagonistadeviagem.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}