{"id":335,"date":"2007-01-06T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T22:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2017-06-27T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T23:07:10","slug":"mortification-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"mortification personified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took Renton to the vet today and ended up with the jolting experience of what it would be like to live in a <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/Images\/getfuzzy_neutered.bmp\" target=\"_blank\">Get Fuzzy<\/a> cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Renton was not only hissing, growling, and taking swipes at anybody daring to touch his person . . . oh no, this cat was foaming at the mouth.  FOAMING AT THE MOUTH!  Drool everywhere!  I was in the corner with my head in my hands, horrified.  He only needed his annual vaccinations and there was a bit of a weepy eye thing.  He did better that time when he had to get the enemas.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the annual exam &#8212; which the doctor was telling me he could not complete unless they sedated him &#8212; I was told that from now on it was probably best not to bring Renton on the weekends because they DON&#8217;T HAVE ENOUGH STAFF TO HANDLE HIM.  Weekdays only, please.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part was as they were about to put Renton back into his cage the vet looked down at his arm and asked of one of the staff, &#8220;Could you get that claw out of my arm, please?&#8221;  The lab helper then pulls out this long talon &#8212; Renton&#8217;s calling card.  He left a few people bleeding today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/Images\/getfuzzy_satan.gif\" target=\"_blank\">Satan Cat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/159974534_27c17ab26c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/159974534_27c17ab26c_z.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/159974534_27c17ab26c_z-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took Renton to the vet today and ended up with the jolting experience of what it would be like to live in a Get Fuzzy cartoon. Renton was not only hissing, growling, and taking swipes at anybody daring to touch his person . . . oh no, this cat was foaming at the mouth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}