{"id":10817,"date":"2021-01-04T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2021-01-04T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:34:14","slug":"left-behind-how-to-prepare-pets-for-a-post-pandemic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/left-behind-how-to-prepare-pets-for-a-post-pandemic-life.php","title":{"rendered":"Left behind: How to prepare pets for a post-pandemic life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"In this photo provided by Raghav Ranjan, Devika Ranjan smiles at her cat, Aloo, on Dec. 13, 2020, in Andover, Mass. Ranjan, a theater director in Chicago, wanted pandemic company and got a rescue cat she named Aloo during the summer. The formerly feral cat is believed to be around 3, and seems to be very comfortable with a slow-paced, high-attention pandemic life. \u201cMy working from home, I think he loves it,\u201d she says. \u201cI think he is just ready to settle down in life. If he were human, he'd probably sit on the couch with a PBR (beer) and watch TV all day.&quot; (Raghav Ranjan via AP)\" class=\"wp-image-10818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1000-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1000-353x235.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>In this photo provided by Raghav Ranjan, Devika Ranjan smiles at her cat, Aloo, on Dec. 13, 2020, in Andover, Mass. Ranjan, a theater director in Chicago, wanted pandemic company and got a rescue cat she named Aloo during the summer. The formerly feral cat is believed to be around 3, and seems to be very comfortable with a slow-paced, high-attention pandemic life. \u201cMy working from home, I think he loves it,\u201d she says. \u201cI think he is just ready to settle down in life. If he were human, he&#8217;d probably sit on the couch with a PBR (beer) and watch TV all day.&#8221; (Raghav Ranjan via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Candace Croney sat down with the Associated Press to provide some tip for how to help your furry friends prepare for you return to campus, the office, &amp; other work places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read her tips at the Associated Press &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/purdue.vet\/3hGmZNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Left behind: How to prepare pets for a post-pandemic life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Candace Croney sat down with the Associated Press to provide some tip for how to help your furry friends prepare for you return to campus, the office, &amp; other work places. Read her tips at the Associated Press &#8211; Left behind: How to prepare pets for a post-pandemic life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,17,11],"tags":[1178,815,143,1587,1628],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-welfare-science","category-in-the-news","category-research","tag-animal-welfare-science","tag-animal-welfare-science-and-human-animal-bond","tag-candace-croney","tag-covid-19","tag-covid19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10820,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions\/10820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}