{"id":444,"date":"2009-08-11T08:04:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-08-11T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:04:53","slug":"the-great-dane-finally-gets-to-play-with-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/2009\/08\/the-great-dane-finally-gets-to-play-with-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Dane finally gets to play with cats&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(8\/11\/2009)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since puppyhood my dog has wanted to meet and love on cats.\u00a0 It started when she discovered my friend Cindy&#8217;s kitten Elbie and tried to give her a sniff.\u00a0 Elbie whapped Shakti on the nose so quickly that my dog had no idea what hit her.<\/p>\n<p>She hasn&#8217;t had any luck sniffing or loving on cats since then and you can imagine how an affectionate 140-pound dog might intimidate a cat.\u00a0 Shakti tends to show her affection by bumping you with her nose or leaning on you and most cats hate that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Shakti has been staying with my wife&#8217;s parent&#8217;s this year and by a happy coincidence some kittens were born this year at the house.\u00a0 The Great Dane has finally gotten a chance to play with some cats that were not intimidated and you can see the results below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_453\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-453\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-453\" title=\"Shakti loving the kitten\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shakti loving a kitten\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakti loving a kitten<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_454\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten_2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-454\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-454\" title=\"shatki hugging the kitten\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten_2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"shatki hugging a kitten\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten_2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kitten_2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shatki hugging a kitten<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_455\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-455\" title=\"Shatki loving two kittens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shatki loving two kittens\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shatki loving two kittens<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_456\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens_bigger.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-456\" title=\"shatki_kittens_bigger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens_bigger-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shakti napping with a kitten\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens_bigger-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shatki_kittens_bigger.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakti napping with kittens (click for larger image)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(8\/11\/2009) Since puppyhood my dog has wanted to meet and love on cats.\u00a0 It started when she discovered my friend Cindy&#8217;s kitten Elbie and tried to give her a sniff.\u00a0 Elbie whapped Shakti on the nose so quickly that my dog had no idea what hit her. She hasn&#8217;t had any luck sniffing or loving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}