{"id":1192,"date":"2012-05-04T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2025-01-13T00:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T00:28:33","slug":"welcome-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, George."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Say hello to George&#8230;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/george1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/george1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/george1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/george1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/george1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Note: Clicking on the above photo will show you a larger version. The other photos in this post are just the small size.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, that&#8217;s the only close up I&#8217;ve been able to take of him where he wasn&#8217;t a) moving too fast for the camera to focus on, or b) impossible to see because of the &#8220;can&#8217;t photograph a black dog&#8221; problem. He&#8217;s named after the classic Loony Tunes &#8220;I will call him George&#8221; routine that appears (I believe) in several of the cartoons. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2JlVqfC8-UI\">Here&#8217;s one example.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve had him for about 3 days now, and he seems to be settling in. There have been no issues between him and Lucky, our old dog, and there&#8217;s even some signs that they are going to be ok with each other&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full size-medium wp-image-1198\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LuckyAndGeorgeDay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LuckyAndGeorgeDay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LuckyAndGeorgeDay1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LuckyAndGeorgeDay1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s a purebred Black Labrador Retriever, with very strong parentage. He also already has the &#8220;sad puppy eyes&#8221; thing down perfectly&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full size-medium wp-image-1197\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GeorgeDay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GeorgeDay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GeorgeDay1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GeorgeDay1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re still in the phase where we have to get up once in the night to let him out, so Deb and I are both a bit sleep deprived right now, but that shouldn&#8217;t last too long &#8212; he says hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to George&#8230; (Note: Clicking on the above photo will show you a larger version. The other photos in this post are just the small size.) So far, that&#8217;s the only close up I&#8217;ve been able to take of him where he wasn&#8217;t a) moving too fast for the camera to focus on, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}