{"id":24643,"date":"2017-10-14T01:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T08:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24643"},"modified":"2017-10-14T01:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T08:48:41","slug":"pampered-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pampered-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pampered Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bshalow.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some cities in California devote time at Council meetings to introduce shelter pets and ask the public to adopt them. At a meeting in my town a citizen asked why pets are getting so much attention and not the homeless humans. Not every pet is pampered as evidenced by the huge number of animals in rescue shelters.\u00a0It&#8217;s OK to pamper pets as long as you don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/health\/overweight-pets.html\">kill them with kindness <\/a>by overfeeding. At Halloween it is also important to not feed pets trick or treat candy when taking them out on the town to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/dog-parades.html\">pet parades &amp; pet costume contests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>10 Halloween Safety Tips for Pets<\/h2>\n<p>1. Trick-or-treat candies are not for pets.<br \/>\n2. Don&#8217;t leave pets out in the yard on Halloween.<br \/>\n3. Keep pets confined and away from the door.<br \/>\n4. Keep your outdoor cats inside several days before and several days after Halloween.<br \/>\n5. Keep Halloween plants such as pumpkins and corn out of reach.<br \/>\n6. Don&#8217;t keep lit pumpkins around pets.<br \/>\n7. Keep wires and electric light cords out of reach.<br \/>\n8. Don&#8217;t dress your pet in a costume unless you know they&#8217;ll love it.<br \/>\n9. Try on pet costumes before the big night.<br \/>\n10. IDs, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some cities in California devote time at Council meetings to introduce shelter pets and ask the public to adopt them. At a meeting in my town a citizen asked why pets are getting so much attention and not the homeless humans. Not every pet is pampered as evidenced by the huge number of animals in [&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\/24643"}],"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=24643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}