{"id":2380,"date":"2008-08-21T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T04:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2008-08-21T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T04:06:36","slug":"the-infamous-dog-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-infamous-dog-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infamous Dog Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what it takes to bring me out of my blogging doldrums?<\/p>\n<p>For those that aren&#8217;t familiar, Michael Gonzales had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/state_news\/story\/848765.html\">choking poodle<\/a> and decided to drive 100 mph to get the poodle help. He could&#8217;ve picked a closer vet? He could&#8217;ve learned the poodle Heimlich? In the video, he&#8217;s clearly panicking and emotional. He shouldn&#8217;t have been speeding. He shouldn&#8217;t even have been driving. I saw the interview with him after the fact. He&#8217;s annoying and self-righteous. I&#8217;m a dog owner. I&#8217;m sorry for his loss, but let&#8217;s get some fscking perspective here, please.<\/p>\n<p>Newsflash, there are cops who don&#8217;t have the best people skills. Unfortunately, the job attracts a few like that. It also turns some people into that. The chief admitted it wasn&#8217;t handled well. The guy&#8217;s been reprimanded. Let it go.\u00c2\u00a0Please.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of the news media rehashing it. I&#8217;m tired of hearing about it. Aren&#8217;t there more important things to worry about? Like, oh, I don&#8217;t know a war? The economy? Health care and education in the shitter? A worthless governor? I feel bad even giving it more attention. And now the dipshit cop is getting death threats? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=217906\">Death threats?<\/a> That sort of thing makes me want to feed the animal activists to a pack of cranky pit bulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what it takes to bring me out of my blogging doldrums? For those that aren&#8217;t familiar, Michael Gonzales had a choking poodle and decided to drive 100 mph to get the poodle help. He could&#8217;ve picked a closer vet? He could&#8217;ve learned the poodle Heimlich? In the video, he&#8217;s clearly panicking and <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-infamous-dog-story\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-Co","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}