{"id":5377,"date":"2025-09-04T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:40:10","slug":"they-said-i-couldnt-keep-my-dog-so-i-made-a-deal-im-still-paying-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5377","title":{"rendered":"They Said I Couldn\u2019t Keep My Dog\u2014So I Made A Deal I\u2019m Still Paying For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been out here with Dibs for almost four years. He\u2019s not just a dog\u2014he\u2019s the last thing I got from my brother before he overdosed. Everyone around here knows us. Some people hand us snacks. Some pretend we don\u2019t exist. Whatever. Last winter, though, it got brutally cold. Like, waking-up-with-ice-in-your-hair cold. A shelter van\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last winter, though, it got brutally cold. Like, waking-up-with-ice-in-your-hair cold. A shelter van drove by, and the guy inside said, \u201cWe\u2019ve got a cot for you. Hot meals. But no pets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thanked him, but said no. Dibs and I were a package deal.<\/p>\n<p>Then a woman\u2014I never got her name\u2014approached while I was packing up near the bridge. She wore a shiny coat, talked fast. Said she worked for a \u201cplacement organization,\u201d whatever that meant. Promised she could board Dibs for free while I got back on my feet. He\u2019d be warm, fed, and walked every day. She handed me a paper to sign. I hesitated. She smiled and asked, \u201cDo you want him to freeze out here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been out here with Dibs for almost four years. He\u2019s not just a dog\u2014he\u2019s the last thing I got from my brother before he overdosed. Everyone around here knows us. Some people hand&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}