{"id":42592,"date":"2019-09-16T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=42592"},"modified":"2019-09-17T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:32:24","slug":"porcupine-quill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/porcupine-quill\/","title":{"rendered":"Porcupine quill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A call made to our helpline<br \/>\nBrought a response urgently<br \/>\nA fawn dog clearly suffering<br \/>\nWith a quill shot painfully<br \/>\nBy a wild porcupine<br \/>\nInto it\u2019s right eye<br \/>\nVery deep and bloody<br \/>\nEnough to make you cry<\/p>\n<p>Just watching that dear doggy<br \/>\nLeaking from it\u2019s jaw<br \/>\nLymph<br \/>\n, and it\u2019s tongue hanging out<br \/>\nOne can not ignore<br \/>\nThe empathy of seeing<br \/>\nThe animal in pain<br \/>\nThe quill right through the eyelid<br \/>\nJaw droppingly  insane<\/p>\n<p>Under some sedation<br \/>\nThe quill was taken out<br \/>\nThe old sweetheart<br \/>\nWas crying<br \/>\nIn fact so little doubt<br \/>\nThe agony was evident<br \/>\nSuch force had made its mark<br \/>\nThe poor dog really motionless<br \/>\nOn  the edge of the park<\/p>\n<p>Animal aid unlimited<br \/>\nBy the TB place<br \/>\nFeeling very sad inside<br \/>\nWith bruising on its face<br \/>\nClearly so upsetting<br \/>\nHis face swollen and blue<br \/>\nSaved again by the angels<br \/>\nWho  knew just what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call made to our helpline Brought a response urgently A fawn dog clearly suffering With a quill shot painfully By a wild porcupine Into it\u2019s right eye Very deep and bloody Enough to make you cry Just watching that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/porcupine-quill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,399,107,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians","category-animalaid-unlimited","category-dogs","category-drugs-and-how-they-are-being-used-on-our-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42609,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions\/42609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}