{"id":239,"date":"2025-02-03T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/?p=239"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:14:39","slug":"heelers-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/heelers-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Heelers to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><i>By Dick Koster<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"border-width:2px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Herding-03.png\" alt=\"Photograph of a liver and tan Lancashire Heeler bossing a small bunch of cattle. The livestock is running away and the Heeler is pushing them from behind.\" class=\"wp-image-298 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Herding-03.png 400w, https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Herding-03-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Years ago I was walking my Heelers on a dead end road. There we came across a loose cow. But on the way back the cow had wandered towards the local road and I decided to try to get the cow into the pasture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the moment I opened the gate, other cows made moves to get out. I then decided to get one of my Heelers. She ran to the back of the cow and started herding. Within 20 seconds the cow was in the pasture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dick Koster Years ago I was walking my Heelers on a dead end road. There we came across a loose cow. But on the way back the cow had wandered towards the local road and I decided to try to get the cow into the pasture. But the moment I opened the gate, other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.lancashireheelersunited.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}