{"id":4113,"date":"2011-04-12T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2011-04-12T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:53:34","slug":"why-is-it-so-costly-to-be-a-responsible-pet-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/why-is-it-so-costly-to-be-a-responsible-pet-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so costly to be a responsible pet owner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took Annie to the vet this morning to have her checked over, update her vaccinations and get some flea and worm tablets. It cost us over \u00a3120 to do so. Since we&#8217;ve been with Village Vet (early 2007), we&#8217;ve racked up over \u00a36.800 pounds of vet fees. Now granted, that includes both of Tolstoy&#8217;s severe conditions which were covered by insurance, but that still leaves several hundreds of pounds to have them chipped, vaccinated, routinely shaved, flead, etc&#8230; Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took Annie to the vet this morning to have her checked over, update her vaccinations and get some flea and worm tablets. It cost us over \u00a3120 to do so. Since we&#8217;ve been with Village Vet (early 2007), we&#8217;ve racked up over \u00a36.800 pounds of vet fees. Now granted, that includes both of Tolstoy&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/why-is-it-so-costly-to-be-a-responsible-pet-owner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why is it so costly to be a responsible pet owner?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-14l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}