{"id":1944,"date":"2008-03-09T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T20:51:19","slug":"the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Cats and<\/strike> Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Virtual Memories \/ Minimally Invasive estates, Rufus, you retired racing greyhound!<\/p>\n

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Rufus raced under the name Primco Kabam<\/a>, shares a birthday<\/a> with my brother and, even though he didn’t do too well on the track<\/a>, his breed can supposedly get up to around 45mph . . . in three strides<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, we’ll be keeping him on a leash forever and ever outdoors, or at least till we put up a fence through the whole backyard.<\/p>\n

Now for the truth about cats and<\/strike> dogs: your Virtual Memoirist is capable of carrying a 78-lb. greyhound up two flights of stairs.<\/p>\n

But I don’t like<\/em> doing it. So if any of you know how to train a greyhound to go upstairs on his own, I’ll pay you to come by and show us.<\/p>\n

Amy made a little photo-essay of this weekend’s event<\/a> and, since she’s a better photographer than I am (both of these pix are from her set), I figure you should check it out.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to Greyhound Friends NJ<\/a> for making this happen!<\/p>\n

It sure beat our original idea for rescuing a racing greyhound: driving down to the dog-track, dressing Amy in a rabbit costume, and having her lure one of them into chasing her into the back of my Element. But then that “45mph in three strides” thing came up . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Virtual Memories \/ Minimally Invasive estates, Rufus, you retired racing greyhound! Rufus raced under the name Primco Kabam, shares a birthday with my brother and, even though he didn’t do too well on the track, his breed can supposedly get up to around 45mph . . . in three strides. So, we’ll … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “The Truth About Cats and<\/strike> Dogs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suburbs","category-to-the-dogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-vm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4126,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/adorable-piranhas","url_meta":{"origin":1944,"position":0},"title":"Adorable Piranhas","author":"Gil","date":"June 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We took Rufus on his first greyhound hike since early May. 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