{"id":91,"date":"2009-08-26T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlemisstonka.co.uk\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-08-26T08:36:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:36:52","slug":"katie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Katie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie was our first cairn terrier.<\/p>\n<p>When we made the decision to have a dog I thought I wanted labrador. \u00a0(My first ever dog was a labrador called Bess. \u00a0She was lovely and I have a lot of happy memories of her.) \u00a0However, Tony, was the sensible one (as ever) pointing out that our garden wasn&#8217;t big enough and they need a lot of exercise. \u00a0Friends and family also pointed out that labradors are big and moult and \u00a0smell terrible when they get wet (something they like doing a lot).<\/p>\n<p>My step mum suggested a cairn terrier. \u00a0I hadn&#8217;t really heard of them and I&#8217;d never have thought of getting a terrier.<\/p>\n<p>We did quite a lot of research (including visiting the breed stand at Crufts and watching them being shown)and decided that actually it would be a suitable breed.<\/p>\n<p>We got in touch with the Midland Cairn Terrier Club puppy liaison officer and were put in touch with a breeder called Judy Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>We went to visit the pups a couple of times and then we were united with our Katie.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92\" title=\"Katie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlemisstonka.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Katie.jpg\" alt=\"Am I coming home with you?\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Katie.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Katie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie...5 weeks of age!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie was our first cairn terrier. When we made the decision to have a dog I thought I wanted labrador. \u00a0(My first ever dog was a labrador called Bess. \u00a0She was lovely and I have a lot of happy memories of her.) \u00a0However, Tony, was the sensible one (as ever) pointing out that our garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlemisstonka.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}