{"id":160,"date":"2011-11-07T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-03-20T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:51:54","slug":"dogs-and-couches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/160","title":{"rendered":"Dogs and Couches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>We have a golden retriever puppy that&#8217;s exceptionally fond of one end of our couch.  We&#8217;ve had the couch for years, and this is the first pet that seems so attracted to it.  What is the scientific explanation? <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from\u00a0Mary Vaughn of  Detroit MI<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Either your couch is part dog&#8230;.or your dog is part couch.  The first couches were actually fossilized giant hamsters that were bred especially for that purpose in Davenport, Iowa.  Eventually, some of the hamsters escaped from confinement and mated with wild dogs.  So there&#8217;s a chance your dog may be the progeny of this natural catastrophe.  Another explanation mgiht be that your couch was manufactured in an Asian country that frequently smuggled dogs into this country inside the couches.  Try jumping on that end of the couch and see if it barks. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a golden retriever puppy that&#8217;s exceptionally fond of one end of our couch. We&#8217;ve had the couch for years, and this is the first pet that seems so attracted to it. What is the scientific explanation? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/160\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/160#comments\"> 1 Comment<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}