{"id":524,"date":"2009-08-29T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T07:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/08\/meet_ben\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T07:10:31","slug":"meet-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/08\/meet-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"meet ben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I managed to go just over 2 months without a dog&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meet Ben \ud83d\ude42 He&#8217;s a 3-month-old miniature poodle &#8211; the husband wanted a small (he said, hand-bag sized!), non-shedding female, so we&#8217;ve got 2 ticks out of 3! Won&#8217;t be going for long walks just yet, but he is so sweet &amp; has a lovely, quiet nature. 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