{"id":2333,"date":"2018-09-06T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2018-09-14T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:56:05","slug":"as-animal-assisted-therapy-thrives-enter-the-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/as-animal-assisted-therapy-thrives-enter-the-cats.php","title":{"rendered":"As Animal-Assisted Therapy Thrives, Enter the Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">In her first bout with breast cancer, Kate Benjamin got by with a lumpectomy and radiation. The second time was far more grueling: a 14-hour double mastectomy in November, followed by an eight-week course of chemotherapy that ended in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">Throughout it all, she has been surrounded by cats. Ms. Benjamin, 47, is an expert on feline-friendly interior design, and she keeps eight cats at her home in Phoenix and two in her nearby work studio. The cats are beloved pets as well as product-testers for her popular blog and newsletter,\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hauspanther.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hauspanther<\/a>, where she showcases products for cats. And, now that she is ill again, they are also serving to help her heal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/06\/well\/live\/as-animal-assisted-therapy-thrives-enter-the-cats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Animal-Assisted Therapy Thrives, Enter the Cats<\/a> at NYTimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her first bout with breast cancer, Kate Benjamin got by with a lumpectomy and radiation. The second time was far more grueling: a 14-hour double mastectomy in November, followed by an eight-week course of chemotherapy that ended in May. Throughout it all, she has been surrounded by cats. Ms. Benjamin, 47, is an expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}