{"id":7003,"date":"2025-04-02T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:53:06","slug":"dog-couple-discuss-getting-neutered-in-light-of-political-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/dog-couple-discuss-getting-neutered-in-light-of-political-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Couple Discuss Getting Neutered in Light of Political Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local labradors Grizzly and Lola-Bear Retriever are discussing getting \u201cfixed\u201d following the introduction of H.R. 722, which proposes a national abortion ban. The Retrievers, who have raised two litters of puppies in the three years that they have been married, cite decreasing access to reproductive healthcare as the impetus for their decision to get \u201cthe snip.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBitches like me are at a high risk for pyometra,\u201d says five-year-old Lola-Bear, a yellow lab, \u201cand following recent decisions made by the federal government, I don\u2019t trust that doctors will prioritize my well-being over the status of a hypothetical litter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chocolate lab Grizzly cites the rise of the \u201ccanosphere\u201d as additional incentive to get neutered. \u201cDogs these days are so insecure in their masculinity that they\u2019ll bark at any intact guy they smell. I\u2019m a sensitive guy\u2014it\u2019s why I became a therapy dog\u2014and I just can\u2019t deal with the pressures of testosterone any longer. Plus, the vet tells me that if we go in together, we get a discount <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">matching tattoos.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd you know what they say,\u201d Lola-Bear chimes in, tail wagging. \u201cDogs who get spayed together\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2014Stay together,\u201d Grizzly finishes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealer <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">left the Retrievers, they were discussing whether they wanted to decorate their cones to look like martini glasses or sunflowers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBitches like me are at a high risk for pyometra,\u201d says five-year-old Lola-Bear, a yellow lab, \u201cand following recent decisions made by the federal government, I don\u2019t trust that doctors will prioritize my well-being over the status of a hypothetical litter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":7004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}