{"id":505,"date":"2009-03-25T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2009-03-25T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:21:38","slug":"tail-chasing-due-to-high-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Tail Chasing Due To High Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-506\" title=\"why-dogs-chase-their-own-tails-high-cholesterol-m\" src=\"http:\/\/www.muttskis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/why-dogs-chase-their-own-tails-high-cholesterol-m.jpg\" alt=\"why-dogs-chase-their-own-tails-high-cholesterol-m\" width=\"150\" height=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your dog chases its tail, it may be more than a cute and amusing activity. It may be a warning sign. Scientists have made a link between dogs who chase their tails and high cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In a study published in the Journal of Small Animal Practice, researchers took blood samples from 15 healthy dogs that were compulsive tail chasers, along with samples from 15 healthy dogs that did not chase their tails.\u00a0 When their samples were analyzed, the tail chasers were found to have significantly higher levels of blood cholesterol&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more info, <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2009\/03\/24\/dog-tail-chasing.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2009\/03\/25\/why-dogs-chase-their-own-tails-high-cholesterol\/\">Neatorama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your dog chases its tail, it may be more than a cute and amusing activity. It may be a warning sign. Scientists have made a link between dogs who chase their tails and high cholesterol levels. &#8220;In a study &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/?p=505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,187,426,389],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mutt-news","tag-cholestserol","tag-health","tag-mutt-news","tag-tail-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.muttskis.ruethedayblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}