{"id":3469,"date":"2025-06-30T23:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2025-06-30T23:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:43:17","slug":"i-was-buying-a-red-collar-for-my-dog-when-a-stranger-told-me-only-certain-dogs-should-wear-them-and-then-she-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"I Was Buying A Red Collar For My Dog When A Stranger Told Me Only \u201cCertain\u201d Dogs Should Wear Them \u2013 And Then She Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was buying a red collar for my dog at the pet store when another customer told me that only dogs that actually need a red collar should buy them. I asked her what she meant, but she just left. What am I missing here? What does a red collar on a dog mean? I stood there holding the collar, feeling stupid and embarrassed. <\/p>\n<p>People were moving around me, carts rolling by, but all I could hear was the woman\u2019s voice echoing in my head. Only dogs that actually need a red collar.<\/p>\n<p>The cashier, a tall guy with an eyebrow piercing, asked if I was ready to check out. I nodded quickly, paid for the collar, and walked to my car. My dog, Oswin, was sitting in the backseat with his tongue hanging out, looking so happy to see me.<\/p>\n<p> I tried to shake it off and clipped the red collar around his neck, but the whole drive home, my thoughts kept circling that woman\u2019s words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was buying a red collar for my dog at the pet store when another customer told me that only dogs that actually need a red collar should buy them. I asked her what she meant, but she just left. What am I missing here? What does a red collar on a dog mean? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}