{"id":24539,"date":"2017-09-02T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24539"},"modified":"2017-09-02T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:54:02","slug":"mans-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mans-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fabpet.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dog stories tug at America\u2019s heartstrings as we&#8217;ve seen in pictures from Hurricane Harvey. Pictured (center) is a golden retriever mix spotted lugging a big bag of dog food down the street by a Sinton, TX resident. In the right photo Betty Walter stayed with her 20 dogs, carrying them to the upper floor of her home as the flood waters rose. \u201cI was not going to leave the dogs. These little pets were depending on me to take care of them,\u201d she said. From surfing with our pets to saving their lives, the love of &#8220;man&#8217;s best friend&#8221; runs deep.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/pets.html\">California Dog Festivals and Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MILPITAS: Pour for Paws Sept.8<\/li>\n<li>LAKE ARROWHEAD: Dog Festival and Splash Dogs! Sept.9<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Music for Mutts Sept.10<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Doggie Street Festival Sept.15<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO CORDOVA: Doggie Day in the Park Sept.16<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-jose-bark.html\">Bark in the Park<\/a> Sept.16<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: Surf Dog Competition Sept.23<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: Wiggle Waggle Walk Sept.24<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Pet Pride Day Oct.1<\/li>\n<li>CARMEL: Poodle Day Oct.7<\/li>\n<li>BEVERLY HILLS: Woofstock Nov.5<\/li>\n<li>POMONA: SoCal Pet Con Jan.6-7, 2018<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Bay Area Pet Con Jan.13-14, 2018<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: San Diego Pet Con Feb.17-18, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog stories tug at America\u2019s heartstrings as we&#8217;ve seen in pictures from Hurricane Harvey. Pictured (center) is a golden retriever mix spotted lugging a big bag of dog food down the street by a Sinton, TX resident. In the right photo Betty Walter stayed with her 20 dogs, carrying them to the upper floor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}