{"id":2818,"date":"2009-06-04T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2009-06-04T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:51:09","slug":"puppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Puppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I went out this afternoon to Loretto, near Corcoran.\u00a0 This is a horsey part of the metro, but we wanted to look at dogs, specifically an Irish Wolfhound and Walker Coyote Hound mix.\u00a0 The man who bred them, Julian Lehman, has the unusual occupation of master of the hunt.\u00a0 That is, he trains both horses and fox hounds to ride after a scented lure.\u00a0 He also rides with those who hire his services.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t be many of those in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>These dogs were, for us, perfect.\u00a0 They retain Wolfhound features and personality, but will probably be about 2\/3&#8217;s the size.\u00a0 With the hybrid vigor of a mix and a smaller overall body we hope they will live longer.\u00a0 We went for it, buying two litter mates, this time both bitches.\u00a0 Our last two Wolfhounds, Tor and Orion, were unneutered and this caused problems for them and for us.\u00a0 Our fault of course.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t bring them home until after our trip to Indiana, but after that Blue and Cleo (their puppy names) will live with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon Kate and I went out this afternoon to Loretto, near Corcoran.\u00a0 This is a horsey part of the metro, but we wanted to look at dogs, specifically an Irish Wolfhound and Walker Coyote Hound mix.\u00a0 The man who bred them, Julian Lehman, has the unusual occupation of master of the hunt.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4347],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-land","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}