{"id":2318,"date":"2025-01-25T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2025-01-25T20:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:25:19","slug":"meerkat-prompts-one-thing-for-my-pet-to-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Prompts: One Thing for my Pet to Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an intriguing and challenging prompt. There are lots of things I wish my cat, Castiel, would understand. I\u2019d like him to grasp the concept that mewling at me to feed him when I am already emptying a sachet of food into his bowl is entirely redundant. I\u2019d love for him to comprehend that as much as my wife and I love him, sitting on us at 1am whilst purring like a freight train is not acceptable behaviour. There\u2019s his tendency to want to go outside to fight foxes or other cats; I would sorely like him to know this is not a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the biggest thing I\u2019d like him to know is that sitting outside our bedroom door, loudly licking himself at 3am, is an absolute no-no. He doesn\u2019t realise how noisy his baths actually are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=122\">Back to Meerkat Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? This is an intriguing and challenging prompt. There are lots of things I wish my cat, Castiel, would understand. I\u2019d like&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,12],"tags":[72,136,15],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny","category-random-prompts","tag-dailyprompt","tag-dailyprompt-1825","tag-random-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/af826cd1-7118-4005-be7b-2933c0a511e3.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}