{"id":41,"date":"2006-09-06T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T02:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-09-06T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T03:01:14","slug":"ranch-house-dog-shakespeare-emison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Ranch House Dog: Shakespeare Emison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though she was bred to herd cattle and lives on a ranch in Weatherford, Texas, Shakespeare found another calling early in life. When she was just a few months old, Jan Emison began taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmdca.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bernese Mountain Dog<\/a> with her to visit residents in local nursing homes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/shakespeare_emison_20060906.jpg\" \/>Today, at the tender age of 18 months, Shakespeare looks forward to regular trips with Jan and Pets on Wheels, a pet therapy group that Jan brought together to serve the community. Her sweet disposition and calm demeanor &#8211; Bernese Mountain Dogs, a centuries-old breed that originated in Switzerland, are known as &#8220;gentle giants&#8221; &#8211; make Shakespeare the perfect guest for elderly and physically challenged residents. But she is also somewhat of a ham and never fails to steal the show, when she jumps up and grabs Jan\u2019s cap (on cue) and presents it to one of the residents.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare shares her home with Jan and her husband Ben, who is a partner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernbloodstock.com\" target=\"_blank\">Western Bloodstock<\/a>, the nation\u2019s leading performance horse sale company. The Emison household also includes another Bernese Mountain Dog, five-year-old Beethoven, and three Border Collies \u2013 Bo Tucker, 12; Coonie, 9; and Cheyenne Brodie, 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though she was bred to herd cattle and lives on a ranch in Weatherford,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting","category-dogs","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}