{"id":51,"date":"2014-05-22T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T01:05:07","slug":"may-22-developing-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"May 22 – Developing Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today my son from St. Louis arrived for a week-long visit.\u00a0 This is the first trip he has made here since I adopted my basset hound Cooper.\u00a0 Sadly Cooper had been abused before I adopted him through a local rescue shelter.\u00a0 Because of his abuse Cooper can be accepting of new people or very antagonistic.\u00a0 So far in the 18 months Cooper has lived with me he has not displayed much consistency in who he accepts and who he rejects.<\/p>\n

My challenge, so I thought, was to find a method to introduce Cooper to my son in a manner where Cooper would accept him.\u00a0 I had my son stand on the side walk in front of the house.\u00a0 Cooper and I left via the back door and came down the alley and encountered my son.\u00a0 To my surprise Cooper went right up to him and laid his head against my son’s leg literally begging to be petted.\u00a0 They got along famously on our walk.<\/p>\n

Then we entered the house and my son had the audacity of laying down on the sofa that Cooper considers “his”.\u00a0 I was in the kitchen and suddenly heard the loud barking\/growling and could not imagine what was the matter.\u00a0 My son had a look of confusion on his face which literally conveyed the question, “What did I do to set Cooper off?”\u00a0 I explained Cooper considers that sofa his personal property.\u00a0 My son offered to move and I said no, Cooper needs to learn to share.\u00a0 In a few minutes I got Cooper quieted down which was a breath of fresh air for both humans in the house.\u00a0 Cooper did not like giving up exclusive rights to the sofa.<\/p>\n

So are you wondering how did things worked out?\u00a0 It is now 6 hours later and my son and Cooper are both sleeping on “Cooper’s sofa” and all is right in the world.\u00a0 The answer was letting Cooper learn that I was very pleased with my son being here.\u00a0 Once Cooper saw that I was not in danger, he accepted my son.\u00a0 It is nice to have a protector.\u00a0 This prompted me to think about the Heavenly Protector that loves us, God.\u00a0 Fortunately God does not bark, but God does give us wisdom to know when a situation is safe or dangerous.\u00a0 I feel blessed to not only have God looking out for my safety but to also have Cooper\u00a0 being on duty to protect me from any “strangers” that dare to enter the house.\u00a0 May all of you whom have had pets thank God for the blessing your pets are to you!\u00a0 Amen!\u00a0 Feel free to post how you feel protected by your pet.\u00a0 We can all be inspired as we read each others experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today my son from St. Louis arrived for a week-long visit.\u00a0 This is the first trip he has made here since I adopted my basset hound Cooper.\u00a0 Sadly Cooper had been abused before I adopted him through a local rescue shelter.\u00a0 Because of his abuse Cooper can be accepting of new people or very antagonistic.\u00a0 … Continue reading May 22 – Developing Trust<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}