{"id":17754,"date":"2014-01-19T22:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2014-01-19T22:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:54:58","slug":"stinky-elk-antler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/19\/stinky-elk-antler\/","title":{"rendered":"Stinky Elk Antler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_7839.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Elk antler dog treat, cut in half with a bandsaw.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105631-2\/IMG_7839.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago Danielle purchased an Elk antler as a toy \/ treat for Roxie. While Roxie initially enjoyed it and chewed into one end, she soon lost interest. Today, in an attempt to renew her interest, I cut it in half with a bandsaw. This is one of the stinkiest tasks I&#8217;ve performed, as the resulting dust smelled like a strong, meaty, rotten animal smell: exactly the sort of thing Roxie loves. Even wearing a dust respirator some of the smell still crept in, and now the garage smells strongly enough that I can&#8217;t walk out there.<\/p>\n<p>Once half was given to her she took a keen interest and began licking the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cancellous_bone\">cancellous bone<\/a> at the center. Hopefully her interest in it will continue and she&#8217;ll finish it this time.<\/p>\n<p>(Note the dark-colored rot-like area, perhaps mildew, that had seeped in from the end she first started licking. Or maybe that was the more flavorful bit?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago Danielle purchased an Elk antler as a toy \/ treat for Roxie. While Roxie initially enjoyed it and chewed into one&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/19\/stinky-elk-antler\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stinky Elk Antler<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-family","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17756,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions\/17756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}