{"id":35390,"date":"2013-03-26T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35390"},"modified":"2013-03-26T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:24:30","slug":"a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35390","title":{"rendered":"A Solution In Search Of A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna from Shoreview sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/10049336-418\/dog-saves-fellow-pooch-from-owl-attack.html\">this story<\/a>; an owl attacked several suburban-Chicago dogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fresh from an Army tour in Iraq, Evans\u2019 daughter Amy was visiting for the holidays with her husband, five kids and two dogs. One of her dogs, Ramadi, a 7-pound shih-poo (a mix between a shih-tzu and miniature poodle), was in the back yard with her parents\u2019 rottweiler, Eli, and their 70-pound boxer, Sadie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came out the door I saw Sadie on top of something and thought it must be another dog, but it was really dark so I couldn\u2019t see,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>He called the rottweiler inside. Little Ramadi came running too, dragging something, with Sadie giving chase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly I realized an owl had its talons sunk into Ramadi and Sadie was trying to get it off of her,\u201d Evans said. \u201cWhen they got to the door we were able to separate Sadie from the owl and my wife pinned the owl to the ground with her foot as I ran to get some gloves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to some sources, the long winter is making owls a little more bold in their hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Me? \u00a0I think we need to devote some scientific effort to domesticating the owl. \u00a0I think police owls would be a lot more cool than police dogs &#8211; and police dogs aren&#8217;t un-cool themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Apropos not much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna from Shoreview sent me this story; an owl attacked several suburban-Chicago dogs: Fresh from an Army tour in Iraq, Evans\u2019 daughter Amy was visiting for the holidays with her husband, five kids and two dogs. One of her dogs, Ramadi, a 7-pound shih-poo (a mix between a shih-tzu and miniature poodle), was in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35392,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions\/35392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}